Just Plain Ruff Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 lol, I had a medic just like that working for me a few years back..he has ADHD so tended to speak before thinking quite often. Here are two memorable moments. Mr. Medic is off duty when we get dispatched to the residence of a known end stage cancer patient. My partner and I assessed our client and prepared to transport him to the hospital for palliative care. As the weeping family watched on, my newly hired medic, still on probation, wearing civvies, bursts into the house as we're wheeling our client out of the bedroom and literally calls out across the room, "Did I miss all the fun?" My response to him was a look that would have left nothing but two smoking shoes if it could have and two words, "Go Home." I took the rest of the weekend to cool off and on Monday morning in the office he apologised for his lack of professionalism. He told me he was pretty pissed with me at first, but after he had some time to think it over he had realised what he had done. Event number 2 was a call to a residence of a known ETOH abuser and belligerent drunk. As Mr. Medic walked through the kitchen he noticed something cooking on the stove. He looks over to the patient and asks, "What the hell is that? It looks like something my dog puked up this morning." Mr. Medic barely made it out of the house alive. Are you sure we aren't talking about the same medic? Same medic, Told one patient, Damn you are drunk, if you weren't so drunk I'd ask you out. Another classic, "What the hell have you been eating, your breath smells like some dog took a crap in your mouth. We got a refusal out of that one and a call into the office. The list goes on and on. The best one was this one. We had just finished coding a gentleman in the ER, we worked both the EMS and the ER. Once the patient was called and all the paperwork was done and the family had said their goodbyes, we were escorting out the wife and son, and this medic walks in to the room (before the famliy had left but they were on the other side of the curtain), and said "So let's practice on him" I kid you not. The family turned right back around, and rushed back in demanding to know what "he was going to practice on" He couldn't stammer enough, The physician, the medical director, the nurse manager of the ER, the hospital nursing director and the CEO of the hospital all got called that day and we had a huge meeting along with the hospital attorney. Our ED had a practice of letting some of the inexperienced medics practice on intubating patients who had expired. (I know bad bad bad form), but many hospitals do it but have never been caught red handed "YET". The patient's family blew a gasket when the ER doctor told them what the medic meant. They refused to leave "harry's side" until he left with the funeral home. Our practice ended that very day. We nearly got sued but I'm not sure how far it went. All thanks to "mouthy medic" who could not keep his mouth shut until the family was gone.
rock_shoes Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 Captain please tell me this jackass was fired. Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk 2
Just Plain Ruff Posted October 15, 2012 Posted October 15, 2012 he quit prior to being fired. He saw the writing on the wall. He ended up moving to another state to start to terrorize those citizens.
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