the 100% directionless thread

So I have this eggplant sitting in the fridge staring back at me, anybody know what I could make with it?
 
MrBrown said:
So I have this eggplant sitting in the fridge staring back at me, anybody know what I could make with it?
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Eggplant Pizza!!
 
w00t!!! I am off until 0600 Monday morning. Longest break in a while. I'm gonna sleep for about 36 hours starting now.

foxfire said:
Eggplant Pizza!!
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Yes!!! Win. Bigtime win. I'm coming over to your place now. Eggplant pizza first. Then sleep. Priorities you know.
 
KEVD18 said:
so anyway, could everybody please post one of the following in this thread:

shoe size
last digit of your license plate
diagonal dimension of your primary television
your favorite carbonated beverage
your preferance between the simpsons and family guy
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In honor of kev and after some random digging, I decided to post some of the things from one of the original posts. Page three asked for the answers to the above. Here they are.

11.5

M

I'm gonna say +/- 25 inches. I dunno an I'm to lazy to go measure it.

Ginger Ale

Neither. Ugh!
 
So... dropping a patient.

Nope. Never a good thing.


Even worse when you had almost no control over whether or not they were dropped. We had a bariatric patient yesterday, so 4 of us were handling the cot. I was at the head, where I like to be when I have a patient (lets me keep my eye on them). On unloading the cot from the ambulance, the person in control of the legs didn't lock them, and the cot went to the ground.


Luckily, the patient was strapped in all the way, and upon the landing, the other Paramedic and I made sure the patient suffered no injury... no body parts flying anywhere or getting caught in anything.



Got a call today on my day off, waking me up, from one of my supervisors wanting an incident report done. Apparently the patient went to the hospital today complaining of pain after the fall.



So, mostly out of my control, yet I'll still probably get in trouble as well. Fantastic.
 
Linuss said:
So... dropping a patient.

Nope. Never a good thing.


Even worse when you had almost no control over whether or not they were dropped. We had a bariatric patient yesterday, so 4 of us were handling the cot. I was at the head, where I like to be when I have a patient (lets me keep my eye on them). On unloading the cot from the ambulance, the person in control of the legs didn't lock them, and the cot went to the ground.


Luckily, the patient was strapped in all the way, and upon the landing, the other Paramedic and I made sure the patient suffered no injury... no body parts flying anywhere or getting caught in anything.



Got a call today on my day off, waking me up, from one of my supervisors wanting an incident report done. Apparently the patient went to the hospital today complaining of pain after the fall.



So, mostly out of my control, yet I'll still probably get in trouble as well. Fantastic.
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Always self report. Usually much less trouble if you file an incident report before the supervisor finds out. Be honest in the report.
 
"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war."

Great play. Call me weird if you want.....
 
"The Dogs of War" decent book by Frederick Forsyth.

"The military order Havoc! was a signal given to the English military forces in the Middle Ages to direct the soldiery (in Shakespeare's parlance 'the dogs of war') to pillage and chaos."

"Shakespeare was well aware of the use of the meaning of havoc and he used 'cry havoc' in several of his plays. The 'cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war' form of the phrase is from his Julius Caesar, 1601. After Caesar's murder Anthony regrets the course he has taken and predicts that war is sure to follow.

ANTONY:
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial."

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/105600.html
 
Dear event organizers,

Even if your event is low risk, please don't rely on student groups from medical schools to do first aid.
 
JPINFV said:
Dear event organizers,

Even if your event is low risk, please don't rely on student groups from medical schools to do first aid.
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Hahaha...a good story behind this surely lies. Maybe you get lucky and get med student EMTs, like I plan to be next year. What do med students know about first aid?
 
jjesusfreak01 said:
Hahaha...a good story behind this surely lies. Maybe you get lucky and get med student EMTs, like I plan to be next year. What do med students know about first aid?
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They would get people with a stubbed toe and start chasing zebras. :P
 
jjesusfreak01 said:
Hahaha...a good story behind this surely lies. Maybe you get lucky and get med student EMTs, like I plan to be next year. What do med students know about first aid?
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Ok... so my school did first aid at the local Christmas Parade (really small event... more PR than anything else. No patients) and the Family Med. department supplied the attending (so we could do, essentially, anything) and the supplies. Some gauze, band aids, a glucometer with no lancets (ignoring, of course, the fact that we had nothing to treat it).

So this year, I agreed to work with a club on campus who is doing first aid at this 1/2 mile disease charity walks at a local stadium. Half day event and we're doing face painting in addition to first aid. I'm friends with the club president and was talking to her over the week and, yea. Supplies: "What ever family med gives us" (which is essentially nothing).

Me: So what are we going to do if something actually happens?

Friend: Call 911.

Me: ...and in the mean time?

Friend: Err...

Me: Ok... so there's also a plan in case something happens also, like who from the event we need to notify (and how...), coordinating making sure that the fire department and ambulance knows where to go, etc?

Friend: Err...

Me: You do realize that if something happens everyone's going to be looking towards us and we'll end up standing around with our thumbs up our butts?


So, this thing is in mid November (so there's time), and I'm going to go see if I can borrow the bag from my old waterpark job. Yea... sure... most likely nothing is going to happen, but I really don't want to be just standing around if something actually happens. It would be one thing if we were doing a both in addition to someone else doing event medical, but if we're it, we need to do it right.
 
Asked for more info from Otero County AMR, Elite Medical in El Paso TX and Deming NM, and HC EMS in McAllen TX. Hoping for something.
And I'm finding out my temp NM EMT-I cert is worthless.
 
Been non stop sneezing since I got on shift. Half tempted at injecting some benadryl off the truck. Yeah...that much sneezing.
 
Brown has the unpleasent job of being involved with the roster drafting people at work ... it is making some people so angry they are reduced to tears of rage .... needless to say its not a very pleasent job

Oh .... was it a go? How convienent ... come on Oz, all set, we're off ....

Ambulance, Medivac airborne .... :D
 
Today's awkward analogy:

AV nodal reentrant tachycardia is like diarrhea. You feel it coming too soon (initiating PAC), and rush to the bathroom. You get done at first and walk slowly out of the bathroom (down the slow path), but then it hits again and you run back to the bathroom (up the fast pathway). Wipe and wash (reset refractory... ...period) , repeat.
 
JPINFV said:
Today's awkward analogy:

AV nodal reentrant tachycardia is like diarrhea. You feel it coming too soon (initiating PAC), and rush to the bathroom. You get done at first and walk slowly out of the bathroom (down the slow path), but then it hits again and you run back to the bathroom (up the fast pathway). Wipe and wash (reset refractory... ...period) , repeat.
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Man when you become a text book writer the students are so screwed.:P
 
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