the 100% directionless thread

Anonymous said:
FYI there is a Flame Broiler on Bear Valley if you are in that area...
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I have no clue where that is so I'm gonna make a wild guess and say I'm not haha.
 
Less than 1000 posts to go until the big 500,000 mark
 
Show up at the SNF, and before we could get out, fire shows up behind us running hot. We were half wondering if they were there for our patient, but nope, couple more rooms down from ours, so we still get to take the vent patient to the ED for labs
 
Looks for pen, reaches in pocket and pulls out rectal thermometer. Says out loud "Great, now some a-hole has my pen."
 
The Resuscitation app on my iPad just released an update with an EMS section. I was briefly excited until I saw how comically dumbed down it was for us barely literate stretcher monkeys. It's sad that the creators of this app think so lowly of paramedics. You mean the 55 YOM with left sided chest pain, dyspnea, HTN, high cholesterol, and family history of MI is *gasp* having an MI?! Say it ain't so! I was marked down on the final grade since I didn't choose any differential diagnoses after seeing the massive lateral wall MI on the 12 lead. Also, I failed to do a BGL check on the patient who wasn't altered and had no history of issues with his blood sugar. Shame on me.
 
Anonymous said:
Looks for pen, reaches in pocket and pulls out rectal thermometer. Says out loud "Great, now some a-hole has my pen."
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Do you know the difference between a rectal thermometer and an oral thermometer?
 
Posted in a grocery store parking lot and some little old lady with a bag full of groceries just walks up to me and asks "Do you have pills?" Really?
 
Why I like EM? It's the people. I was in the urgent care part of the ED today where we do follow ups for people being treated in the lobby as well as people with minor issues. One of the things we do is anything that needs a room for an exam (like pelvic exams) will be sent back for the exam and then returned to the lobby.

Between the attending, resident, and myself we had 16 or 17 pelvic exams. The attending actually suggested that we should start greeting patients with "We're at your cervix." I speculated that it wouldn't work too well.
 
Jim37F said:
Posted in a grocery store parking lot and some little old lady with a bag full of groceries just walks up to me and asks "Do you have pills?" Really?
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chaz90 said:
The Resuscitation app on my iPad just released an update with an EMS section. I was briefly excited until I saw how comically dumbed down it was for us barely literate stretcher monkeys. It's sad that the creators of this app think so lowly of paramedics. You mean the 55 YOM with left sided chest pain, dyspnea, HTN, high cholesterol, and family history of MI is *gasp* having an MI?! Say it ain't so! I was marked down on the final grade since I didn't choose any differential diagnoses after seeing the massive lateral wall MI on the 12 lead. Also, I failed to do a BGL check on the patient who wasn't altered and had no history of issues with his blood sugar. Shame on me.
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I like the app. But that makes me sad. I must update it now though
 
I got asked for sutures while in the parking lot of an AM/PM once. I also got asked if I had seen a woman's 8" natural finger nail that had fallen off while in a Target parking lot.

I had about 15 college-aged, drunken, and half-naked women climb all over my ambulance once and activate out dash cam. I was only 19 so I was scared outta my mind. Looking back...
 
Jambi said:
I had about 15 college-aged, drunken, and half-naked women climb all over my ambulance once and activate out dash cam. I was only 19 so I was scared outta my mind. Looking back...
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Where was this at?!
 
Jambi said:
I had about 15 college-aged, drunken, and half-naked women climb all over my ambulance once and activate out dash cam. I was only 19 so I was scared outta my mind. Looking back...
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I think I'm doing EMS wrong.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
Where was this at?!
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San Diego Gaslamp district before my AMR days. The BLS IFT company I worked for like to post a unit in Gaslamp for proximity, and Thursday night never needed to be covered. It was cool because the cops were cool and always told us to park in the red zones and enjoy the show.

Flying tops and women looking for regret was usually as exciting as it got, but one of our crews watched a dude get stabbed in the neck with a broken beer bottle 20 feet from the ambulance. The guy then ran toward the ambulance, sprayed blood all over the unit, then collapsed. Out poor frightened BLS IFT 911-wannabe crew actually help their stuff together, activated 911, and applied direct pressure. The fire department paramedics ended up using our unit to transport because the rural metro one was 5 minutes out. It was the talk of our little group for months.
 
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