EMS superstitions?

[firedoc5]

If you get a transfer call out of town, it's almost guaranteed there will be a working structure fire or MVC with extrication while you are gone.

It is all you'll hear for the next three shifts "man you should have seen it, two story house heavy smoke showing"

That happened to me once. Actually it was a Greyhound Bus accident.

[Zach Smith]

Ours is simply that the longer we go without a call, the more calls we'll get in a short amount of time...and it has NEVER been proven wrong. Three hours without a call, and after that first call nearly all ambulances are out of the station.

[njmedic1485]

Of course, if you are going on that fishing trip early in the morning, you stay up all night running too.

You can sleep the night before a fishing trip? I usually get a solid 10 minutes the night before a trip

[JTpaintball70]

All of these seem to work around here too..

And for me, If I haven't slept at all on the first day of my 3 nights, I'll run solid the first two nights, and get absolutely no calls the third, after I"ve slept all that day

[JChernov1977]

I found when I worked in EMS it was either whenever you try to eat, or go to the bathroom, that's when you get the worst calls

[Don1977]

Lately, everytime we stop by this one McDonald's we get a call after we get our food....its happened three times now, including an employee who sliced her thumb last week while we were there...

[Lone Star]

hmmm, we have to agree with the Qs, Ss, and Bs, as well as the food and bathroom (we've learned to hold it a looooong time)

After my surgery for a giant cerebral aneurysm, (I was still in uniform when it presented), the nurse had to straight cath me....her comment at the time was, "My God, you've got the bladder capacity of 5 people!"

I wanted to tell her that was the joy of working EMS, but just couldn't say a word..... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

[Leener77]

I'm really not too superstitious but there have been many times that calls will go out as soon as I try and use the bathroom or try to get some food.

However I seem to have this damn white cloud that hangs over me because I rarely get the 'good calls' that so many others get in my service. I have been on the streets for 3 years now and have had 2 cardiac arrests. I have been with EMSA and out on the streets since January and haven't had a one here! There are tons of bad wrecks, shootings, stabbings and all kinds of other crazy stuff in Tulsa and do I ever get any of them?? Yea.....not so much. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this white cloud I have lingering over me???!!!!! :cussing:

[akflightmedic]

After my surgery for a giant cerebral aneurysm, (I was still in uniform when it presented), the nurse had to straight cath me....her comment at the time was, "My God, you've got the bladder capacity of 5 people AND THE TUBING OF A TWO YEAR OLD!"

I wanted to tell her that was the joy of working EMS, but just couldn't say a word..... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

[firedoc5]

Oh, that's below the belt. (Pardon the pun)