When a coworker winds up being a patient, how does your place treat them?
The other night, one of the other crews wound up running a call for one of our members who'd done something dumb. He's now on administrative duty only, and everyone's been giving him a hard time about it now that it seems he'll be alright. He thinks it's pretty funny. That's generally been how things around here go, whether the coworker did something stupid or not.
I'd figured it was just part of the whole macho dysfunctional family EMS thing, but I just found out that another guy wound up driving himself to the hospital with severe chest pain because he didn't want the duty crew making fun of him. Then it turned out half the place seems to have "call me for a secret emergency hospital ride" agreements with each other. Especially the ones who'd been patients before.
So, this bothers me. I'm curious, too. How do other companies and departments out there handle this? If you needed to go to the hospital, would you avoid calling your own service?
The other night, one of the other crews wound up running a call for one of our members who'd done something dumb. He's now on administrative duty only, and everyone's been giving him a hard time about it now that it seems he'll be alright. He thinks it's pretty funny. That's generally been how things around here go, whether the coworker did something stupid or not.
I'd figured it was just part of the whole macho dysfunctional family EMS thing, but I just found out that another guy wound up driving himself to the hospital with severe chest pain because he didn't want the duty crew making fun of him. Then it turned out half the place seems to have "call me for a secret emergency hospital ride" agreements with each other. Especially the ones who'd been patients before.
So, this bothers me. I'm curious, too. How do other companies and departments out there handle this? If you needed to go to the hospital, would you avoid calling your own service?