“You sound worse than I do,” my patient said to me this morning. “How about we draw straws to see who gets seen at the ED first,” I said. My cough is actually improved from a week ago. My preceptee was treating a lady with chest pain who had a deep rattling cough. I was…
Month: January 2010
Glimpse of the End
Let me say right from the outset that I love being a paramedic and dread that day that I can no longer do this work. That said I have had two moments in my career where I have glimpsed that day. These moments are not moments that you would expect. It was not a bloody,…
Where Am I?
It’s a great feeling to wake slowly and wonder where I am and slowly open my eyes and realize my surroundings. “Hey, I’m already at work. How great is this!”
Death By Detergent
A hundred yards ahead, we can see the officer standing by the snow-covered car, but then he turns and waves his arms to get our attention. “Stay there!” he shouts.
The Bedpan
Somewhere Around Here I have to confess in my twenty-one years in EMS, I have only gotten the bed pan out less than a dozen times. I also admit there were occasions when the bed pan was not always in the first place in the ambulance I looked (this was at a time when I…