Questions You Don't Ask Medical Personnel...

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Some are funny. Some are sad. Some are silly. Just as you don't ask an actor "Which co-stars did you hate most?", or a plumber, "Flood any houses today?", there are some questions we feel uncomfortable being asked...but often wish we could answer anyway!;)
 
You mean like "Where did you rank in your graduation class?" :blush:
 
Or do you mean like, if you see someone in an EMT uniform or scrubs or something in the 711 trying to pay for gas, don't walk up to them, and show them your festering sore and ask "Does this look infected??" or rattle off a list of symptoms and signs and ask "So...what do you think it is?"
 
Questioner on the edge of his/her seat, glazed look of expectancy on his/her face - "I bet you see some pretty bad stuff huh?"
 
"What's the worst death you've seen"


"How many times have you done CPR"
 
"If I drink this this and this, and then chase it down with this... Do you think I'll get alcohol poisoning?"
 
How about...

(wink wink) "I betcha geta lot witha rolling bedroom like that, dontcha?"
 
Is someone hurt?
 
at three o'clock in the morning dont ask what the problem is just ask can you walk to my ambulance.
 
Preparing for a procedure.

Pt: Have you ever done this before?

Me: Nope.

Then immediately perform said procedure.
 
Then there are the questions a'la Mythbusters:

" 'ja ever se someone's EYE pop out!?"

"What if like a Rottwiler grabbed one foot, and a pitbull grabbed the other, would they like tear you in half?"

"I see'd em do that on Mythbusters, they said this is what you do, why aintch doin' it RIGHT?"....

(Go to their online forum. Oh mommy.)
 
mycrofft said:
" 'ja ever se someone's EYE pop out!?"

"What if like a Rottwiler grabbed one foot, and a pitbull grabbed the other, would they like tear you in half?"

"I see'd em do that on Mythbusters, they said this is what you do, why aintch doin' it RIGHT?"....

(Go to their online forum. Oh mommy.)
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Had a scene flight where my pt lost both prosthetic eyes. Noone warned me before I went to check pupils. But as I shined my light into two dark holes, I realized... dude ain't got no eyes.

Surreal would be an understatement.
 
This happened to me just last week:

24 year old stoned Blonde girl: "So do you work out of a hospital or something?"

Me: "Nope, I work out of that ambulance" - points to ambulance 10 feet from front door of convenience store

Blonde girl: "Oh, so you're an ambulance driver?"

Me: Sigh...

I've given up on correcting people...
 
el Murpharino said:
This happened to me just last week:

24 year old stoned Blonde girl: "So do you work out of a hospital or something?"

Me: "Nope, I work out of that ambulance" - points to ambulance 10 feet from front door of convenience store

Blonde girl: "Oh, so you're an ambulance driver?"

Me: Sigh...

I've given up on correcting people...
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Shoulda said, "Am I driving the ambulance or you? ;) " :p
 
el Murpharino said:
This happened to me just last week:

24 year old stoned Blonde girl: "So do you work out of a hospital or something?"

Me: "Nope, I work out of that ambulance" - points to ambulance 10 feet from front door of convenience store

Blonde girl: "Oh, so you're an ambulance driver?"

Me: Sigh...

I've given up on correcting people...
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Rid's funny quote -
"Is it hard to be an ambulance driver?"
"Yep - that's why the stupid ones ride in the back"
:P
 
My favorite when someone called me an ambulance driver was "yeah, you load yourself onto the cot and me and my partner here will sit up front and drive you can treat yourself."
 
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