Funny Experiences on a Job

I have a specific one now.

I was off duty, hell I was on leave for college but was home for the weekend. I went to NYU but I lived 30 min upstate. At school I was on the full contact Tae Kwon Do team. 2 other members came up to my area for a local tourney and I came to watch. They had 6 matches going on at once. I was walking from match to match watching. I had passes by a volley BLS crew,said hi. About 2 minutes later I hear an announcement. Could not decipher what the announcement was but it was paging someone to a ring. The voice had a thick Korean accent. This announcement was made 2 more times. As I walked around I saw a female competitor laying on the ground, several people including a guy with a mike. He was a Korean instructor and was making the announcement for a "doctor". I walked over and took over as an EMT. I instructed one of the people walk over to the BLS crew. I helped backboard the pt and continued like nothing happaned.
 
I was transporting a psych pt once who was folding his non existent laundry in the air and matching his socks, he also claimed that the ambulance was being chased by squirrels.
 
That sounds exactly like what you did Yowzer,and you are right,that was a scene in bringing out the dead where the character played by Tom Sizemore took an electrode and stuck it on the non-english speaking patient and told him to keep checking it,but what I found funnier was when Nicolas Cage's character showed the guy how she should slice his wrists.
 
m33kr0b said:
I was transporting a psych pt once who was folding his non existent laundry in the air and matching his socks, he also claimed that the ambulance was being chased by squirrels.
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I'm not sure if I've posted this before or not... I had an altered female psych patient claim there was a fan naked guy lying on the bench seat for a 45 minute transport... I was the ONLY person in the rig, and I was in the airway chair the whole time.
 
Wow...I wish I could contribute to this subject....I NEVER have anything even remotely funny happen to me....
 
I was on shift this past Saturday and saw another of our ambulances driving around the down town area of Hartford, so I started following them. Well, following turned to chasing, lasting about 10-15 min. We didn't even come close to hitting anyone! Though, we did break countless driving laws...
 
We're bringing a direct admit patient into a hospital floor late at night. Shared rooms. The door to the one he's going in is closed. Figuring whoever else is in there already is sensibly asleep, I open the door without knocking.

Oops.

Our patient's new roommate's girlfriend is still there, after visiting hours, and they're in bed, making out.

I mumble an apology, back out, and close the door and give them a few minutes to get their clothing (Mostly hers. Those hospital gowns, you know...) Meanwhile, my partner's wanting to know what's wrong and I'm trying not to laugh. :P
 
Ahhhh-psych patients

This was my first pt transport as a basic where I was the tech in the back. My paramedic partner asked if I wanted to take the call, and boy was I in for a ride. The pt was an adult male who lived with his mother. Mom stated he needed to be taken to the hospital because he was scaring her. The cops had responded on the call, and they decided to follow us into town to leave their car, then they would ride with us.

My pt was seated on the gurney in the back of the rig, and on the drive into town he kept cursing and threatening to fight the cops who were following us. We stopped to let the cop jump in with us, and I happened to be on the phone with the hospital trying to let them know we were coming. Meanwhile, my pt takes off his seatbelts and starts trying to jump out the back door. I quickly tell med control we will be there in 50 minutes, and I have to go. I pull the pt back into the truck, and with my "teacher voice" tell him, "you told me you would wear your seatbelt." Which surprisingly worked very well.

So, the cop gets in the rig, and introduces himself as Rich, and the pt replies "Oh no, your name is ****!" The cop and I were laughing by then.

Enroute, the pt continues to keep unbuckling his seatbelt, and I keep putting it back on. As big as the guy was, it would not have worked well to make him mad by trying to restrain him. We were just trying to keep him calm. The pt starts asking for some water, and I tell him he can have some when we get to the hospital. So the first second I'm not looking, the pt reaches into the cabinet, pulls out the hydrogen peroxide and starts chugging-ahhhhhhhhh!
So, I take that away. Wow, I didn't know being an EMT required so much babysitting.

I had decided not to start an IV because I thought it would make the pt combative, but then out of nowhere, the pt asks, "Aren't you going to take my blood?" So, he lets me start the IV and tells me about all the drugs he's ever done in his life-wow! I wonder if that has anything to do with his current condition.

We finally reached the hospital and wheeled the pt in, and the charge nurse was a little freaked out. She told me the last thing she heard on the cell phone when I called was, "No, don't go out that door....." Then she thought I said we would be there in 15 minutes, when I really said 50. So, she was wondering what happened. If she only knew.....
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one of the reasons i carry handcuffs
 
We go to the local airport for an EDP. 60 y/o women who escaped from someplace in FL, whose been living in the airport x 1 week. She was really upset because she was still waiting on Michael Jackson to western union her some money so she can get an apartment here. Donald trump was her emergency contact, but she begged us not to call him. Apparently the Donald is easily upsetable^_^
 
Had a psych pt we were transporting from the er to the local psych ward and since the pt was female, I rode in back with her. She kept asking who the black guy was in the front seat that my partner was talking to. I told her that there was no one up front except my partner. Then she keeps turning her head from the side door window to the back door windows and starts getting antsy. I ask her what is the matter and she says she sees midgets dressed as clowns hanging onto the doors and they keep jumping form the back to the side. I keep from laughing and after the call, my partner confessed that he told her to "beware of the little people!" Needless to say we had a good laugh.
 
Took another pt from the hospital to a rehab. Enroute he kept putting his hand on my leg and asking questions like "are you married, do you cheat," etc. I kept politly removing his hand from my leg and telling him to please not touch me. I was writing my paperwork when his hands went down the front of his shorts. He started to masturbate and then exposed himself. In my sternest voice I told him to put "it" away right now. He did, then I asked him why he did that. He said he did not have anything else to do with his hands. I told him I have something he can do and handed him a blank sheet of paper and a pen and told him he could draw pictures until we get to the receiving facility. He actually complied and the trip was uneventful after that.
 
Medic Olympics

I remember hearing an event in school about a class of medics in the Yukon that had gained some notoriety for their "medic olympics": these funny fools took turns injecting themselves with Succinylcholine (SUCCS) and then sprinting off to see who could run the furthest before succumbing to the paralytic.

Sure, there was a winner -- but in the end, they were all losers. LMAO!
 
Had two interesting calls within the last month or so...

1. My partner and I responded to a hypertensive emergency, on scene we're greeted at the door by a shirtless, mullet spoting fella who shows us to the PT in the bedroom...we make entry and find the supposed PT in her bed with the covers up to her chest, yes she had a shirt on. She was smoking a cig(important clue for later) and i asked her to put it out and of course her reply was "Do I have to?" So anyways, my partner and I began to interogate her to find out what the problem was and discovered that no one from that home called 9-1-1, her grandmother who is also a frequesnt flyer called for her.
After a lil interogation she states "I know I'm working myself up for the big one", "How so?" I ask. "Well, I dont care of my body, i eat what i want, i dont exercise, I smoke like a train and some times my arm gets tingly and numb". So my partner and i look at each other like "alrighty then"... My partner then ask if she can walk and before she can answer mullet man says shes naked under the covers(second clue).
So she obviously has a history and denies trans/Tx due to not having any insurance. I dont think we have EVER worked so hard to try to convience someone to go to the ER. So I go out to the truck to get the clipboard for the AMA and while im doing that on one side of the bed my medic is on the other side getting a BP. All is said and done so we clear....on the way back to the station he looks at me and ask if i saw that "monster" under her bed? Of course I wasnt so lucky. I asked him what it was and he said that when he went over to get the BP he accidently kicked somethin that was under the bed and kinda kicked it out into the open. He said it was this HUGE "female toy" that looked like it should have had a kick start on it!
I told him thats worth pulling me out of the room for and letting me know JUST to make sure I see it! I know though that i would have made damn sure to kick it and make some smart-*** comment to her. Prob a good thing he didnt i suppose....
It wasnt till we were back to the station and i was talking to my partner and one of the vol FFs that was on scene w/ us and it all clicked!
She was smokin a cig, he was shirtless, she was ONLY wearin a shirt and there was that "toy" that my partner kicked....so here is how I think it went down. These two jewels of the trailer park were getting down with the "toy"...it was getting intense and thats when granny calls only to hear her grandbaby on the other end having a hard time breathing, panting and probably telling her that she was just having another one of her episodes. It was a good one. If you dont think so then i guess you had to be there.

2. We're toned out to a Signal 27(poss dead person) and are told to respond no blink-blinks and no woo-woos which is odd to begin with. We get on scene and are met by a deputy who stated he just needs a confirmation on an elderly guy. We walk in and he is in twin bed up against the wall in the front way. His hand are crossed, eyes closed, pale and obvious levidty all over. We start to not even run a strip due to his presentation but when we feel how he is still warm we go ahead and do it anyways....it spikes twice then flattens out...talk about pucker factor! I think my heart skipped a beat...i know i stopped breathing for sure! Thats all fine and dandy, the poor guy was a lung ca pt and just got home from the hosp the day before.
Now the deputy ask us to help him roll the guy over so he can check for bullet holes...I look at him like "WTF?" and he says its just somethin he has to do for his investigation and to humor him...no biggie. Keep in mind, the bed is in the corner up against the wall.
So we go to roll the guy...deputy at the hips and Im at the shoulders. We start to roll him and his head rolls off the pillow and then it happens....THUD!!
with the family not 15 feet away, behind a wall in the kitchen this poor old guys head smacks the heck out of the wall. I think his forehead must have hit a stud or somethin because it was loud and it had some bass to it. We all just about fell out in the floor trying not to laugh! My partner got so red in the face...it was one of my not so proud moments but man it was hilarious!
 
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Exorcism

It was about 0200 and we get called to an unknown.

Well we arrive and see a 20 something male sitting in the bushes. Well I walk up and ask what seems to be the problem, and the male looks up and starts to freaks out. The guy starts screaming that i'm evil and I must have the demon with in me released, he actually thinks i'm possesed by the devil and I need an exorcism. Before I can notice he pulls out his penis and starts peeing on me and saying the lords prayer.

To this day my partner calls me devil girl and flick water on me and says the lords prayer just to get me going.
 
FF/EMT Sam said:
Amen. I once had a patient tell me that "You might think this sounds stupid, but I feel like I have a hamster running around in my chest." We both cracked up.
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PAT -- okay, I need 10 characters, PAT
 
Fedmedic said:
Actually, I had a 101 uses for electrodes before I ever watched bringing out the dead. Yeah, I'm afraid I have been doing it that long. Also, if you take the old Motorola Minitor pagers and hold the squelch button and scan your patient, they make excellent "Star Trek" style scanners and tell you everything that is wrong with your patient; at least that is what they think...bet you didn't see that in bringing out the dead. Or if you take their medicaid cards and scan them in your radio box mounted on the wall in the back of your ambulance it will tell you that they have already had their limit on ambulance calls for the month....something to think about.
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LMAO! :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
TKO said:
I remember hearing an event in school about a class of medics in the Yukon that had gained some notoriety for their "medic olympics": these funny fools took turns injecting themselves with Succinylcholine (SUCCS) and then sprinting off to see who could run the furthest before succumbing to the paralytic.

Sure, there was a winner -- but in the end, they were all losers. LMAO!
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Hahahaha that's freak'n hilarious!
 
ElvisIsDead said:
You should be ashamed of yourself for laughing at a patient while in your care in the back of a unit. This person obviously needed your help and you let him down by laughing at him. I think that the term unethical may apply here. If you felt the need to laugh so badly you could have least waited until you had delivered your patient to the hospital and you were by yourself. Tis is why so many people refuse to seek help anymore for psychiatric problems. They're afraid they'll be ridiculed.
Humor is a neccessity in this job; however not at the expense of those who depend completely on us to do our jobs.
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I was waiting for a comment of this sort =D heh
 
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