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Sorry, but I just need to vent about a run from the other night.
We get dispatched for a sick person and arrived to find a woman in her late 40's-early 50's c/o stomach pain. She tells us that she has two stomach ulcers and that when she has "attacks" related to them, this is exactly how she feels. She goes on to tell us that they usually give her morphine or fentanyl for it and that she is a hard stick.
We get her loaded up and in the truck, ready to go. I turn to get in the truck to drive us to the ER, and one of the engine guys asks what I think about the run. I told him that she was a drug seeker, and why I thought that.
We get her to the ER, into her room, and my partner is finishing up his paperwork. About that time, the nurse comes over to where we were at to let us know what the patient just told her. Apparently I was only partially right - she was drug seeking, but she didn't want only narcs for pain, she also wanted all of her prescriptions filled that she had run out of. She then told the nurse that she didn't really need an ambulance at all, but called 911 because she didn't have enough gas in her car to drive to the ER and then back home.
I am sorry, but I just can't stand it when people abuse the system and try to play it to get whatever they can. I do feel bad for people that fall on hard times, and are doing all they can to get back on their feet. Helping them is one thing. These loosers that only want you to give them anything/everything they can get are another thing all together! Sometimes I really wish we could refuse to transport. This woman wanted no medical treatment at all. She wanted a taxi and free meds.
In fact, this patient asked if we would be willing to wait around for her to get discharged so we could take her back home because she didn't have any other way to get there. Sorry, not my problem.
Ok, done with the rant. <breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out....>
We get dispatched for a sick person and arrived to find a woman in her late 40's-early 50's c/o stomach pain. She tells us that she has two stomach ulcers and that when she has "attacks" related to them, this is exactly how she feels. She goes on to tell us that they usually give her morphine or fentanyl for it and that she is a hard stick.
We get her loaded up and in the truck, ready to go. I turn to get in the truck to drive us to the ER, and one of the engine guys asks what I think about the run. I told him that she was a drug seeker, and why I thought that.
We get her to the ER, into her room, and my partner is finishing up his paperwork. About that time, the nurse comes over to where we were at to let us know what the patient just told her. Apparently I was only partially right - she was drug seeking, but she didn't want only narcs for pain, she also wanted all of her prescriptions filled that she had run out of. She then told the nurse that she didn't really need an ambulance at all, but called 911 because she didn't have enough gas in her car to drive to the ER and then back home.
I am sorry, but I just can't stand it when people abuse the system and try to play it to get whatever they can. I do feel bad for people that fall on hard times, and are doing all they can to get back on their feet. Helping them is one thing. These loosers that only want you to give them anything/everything they can get are another thing all together! Sometimes I really wish we could refuse to transport. This woman wanted no medical treatment at all. She wanted a taxi and free meds.
In fact, this patient asked if we would be willing to wait around for her to get discharged so we could take her back home because she didn't have any other way to get there. Sorry, not my problem.
Ok, done with the rant. <breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out....>