MedicPrincess
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My medic and I back each other up on everything. If she asks me to do something or I ask her and it blows up in our faces, we freakin stand there with each other and take whats coming to us. On Saturday she was off, so I had a relief medic working. He used to be full time, and for reasons I now know (wish I'd have known before) he is relief.
So we are pulling up to the hospital. Another unit from our service was right behind us. In the ambulance bay was a truck from another service, pulled in there in such a way neither one of us could get in. I told my medic we couldn't get in, hang I, I would go pull their truck forward. Its a common practice. If we are blocking their way, they move us out of their way. If they block us, we move them. Its a round-a-bout ambulance bay. Really poorly designed actually.
He said, Make sure that the crew is not in the ER first then go ahead.
They weren't there. So I did. Well guess what. That service got a new truck. It doesnt fit under ANY ambulance bay in ANY of the THREE COUNTIES they transport to. And I know this because I drove it right into the overhang at the hospital.
After a string of swear words back to my truck I tell him what happened and he will need to get the patient ready to go inside while I call our shift commander. Basically, he just had to get him off the monitor.
All I could get out on the Next-hell to our Shift CPT was I need you here now. He made it to the hospital in the time it took us to unload the patient.
As soon as I started telling him what happend that SOB, lying...making me say many more swear words here....I don't even want to give him the respect of calling him a Medic...how about SOB...began this chant....
"I told her not to do it. I told her it was a bad idea. She wouldn't listen to me. If she'd have just listened to me."
NO HE DIDN'T!!! If he would have, I would have said Ok, your the medic. Your in charge. We'll unload in the street. No problem.
And he actually took like 3 steps back as he was saying it. So I was standing there alone.
I think my head actually exploded. Right there in the parking lot. My head freakin exploded. But I didn't have a total melt down. I was stunned. Shocked. My Shift CPT said he thought I was going to pass out. He freakin tucked his tail between his legs and ran like scared puppy.
Once I realized I was on my own. All I could do was just tell him, I drove it. I was the one that caused the damage. They have always fit.
That was Saturday. I finished the shift Saturday. I worked yesterday. Yesterday, I got a letter of reprimand for causing or contributing to an accident. My Shift CPT, our Chief, and our County Director of Public Safety went to bat for me to keep my job. So I didn't loose it. I did however have my overtime taken away for 30 days.
My service is paying for a rental for the other service while their is repaired. The repairs. The cost of having it shipped to Ohio for those repairs. Apparently, where it hit was an A/C unit and it tore the top of the box. Peeled it like a can opener it did. Something about undermining the integrity of the box. You don't even want to know the estimate for total cost with rental and all. Oh, and the other service has said they are going to see if there is a way they can sue me personally.
And the medic with me that day. He made what he would consider an attempt and explaining why he stood there lied about telling me not to...blah blah blah blah blah....a$$hole. Something about trying to come back on full time and not wanting to ruin it....I had to walk away. I was seriously considering choking him down, right there. And I had the vision of it and everything.
You don't do that to someone. You just don't leave someone strung up like that. Its not right. Its just plain mean. I don't understand.
So at 0400 this morning, near the end of my shift is when I finally reached my breaking point. I hadn't told my regular partner any of it yet. Only that I had to have a meeting with the Cheif about some stuff. Something happened, can't really remember what, but I ended up sitting in the back of our truck just yelling at her and crying and having a freaking break down.
So what does she do? The big dork. She starts herself crying too.
Great. Now were both sitting in the truck with snot running, noses red, eyes all puffy.....How would you like to be our next patient and we are both a mess.
Thank God for Fire Fighters. They cancelled us on our next 2 calls. Gave us a chance to fix ourselves.
But you know, I just don't understand how anybody in anykind of decent conscience would toss someone under a bus like that and then stand back and watch the wreck without saying a word.
So we are pulling up to the hospital. Another unit from our service was right behind us. In the ambulance bay was a truck from another service, pulled in there in such a way neither one of us could get in. I told my medic we couldn't get in, hang I, I would go pull their truck forward. Its a common practice. If we are blocking their way, they move us out of their way. If they block us, we move them. Its a round-a-bout ambulance bay. Really poorly designed actually.
He said, Make sure that the crew is not in the ER first then go ahead.
They weren't there. So I did. Well guess what. That service got a new truck. It doesnt fit under ANY ambulance bay in ANY of the THREE COUNTIES they transport to. And I know this because I drove it right into the overhang at the hospital.
After a string of swear words back to my truck I tell him what happened and he will need to get the patient ready to go inside while I call our shift commander. Basically, he just had to get him off the monitor.
All I could get out on the Next-hell to our Shift CPT was I need you here now. He made it to the hospital in the time it took us to unload the patient.
As soon as I started telling him what happend that SOB, lying...making me say many more swear words here....I don't even want to give him the respect of calling him a Medic...how about SOB...began this chant....
"I told her not to do it. I told her it was a bad idea. She wouldn't listen to me. If she'd have just listened to me."
NO HE DIDN'T!!! If he would have, I would have said Ok, your the medic. Your in charge. We'll unload in the street. No problem.
And he actually took like 3 steps back as he was saying it. So I was standing there alone.
I think my head actually exploded. Right there in the parking lot. My head freakin exploded. But I didn't have a total melt down. I was stunned. Shocked. My Shift CPT said he thought I was going to pass out. He freakin tucked his tail between his legs and ran like scared puppy.
Once I realized I was on my own. All I could do was just tell him, I drove it. I was the one that caused the damage. They have always fit.
That was Saturday. I finished the shift Saturday. I worked yesterday. Yesterday, I got a letter of reprimand for causing or contributing to an accident. My Shift CPT, our Chief, and our County Director of Public Safety went to bat for me to keep my job. So I didn't loose it. I did however have my overtime taken away for 30 days.
My service is paying for a rental for the other service while their is repaired. The repairs. The cost of having it shipped to Ohio for those repairs. Apparently, where it hit was an A/C unit and it tore the top of the box. Peeled it like a can opener it did. Something about undermining the integrity of the box. You don't even want to know the estimate for total cost with rental and all. Oh, and the other service has said they are going to see if there is a way they can sue me personally.
And the medic with me that day. He made what he would consider an attempt and explaining why he stood there lied about telling me not to...blah blah blah blah blah....a$$hole. Something about trying to come back on full time and not wanting to ruin it....I had to walk away. I was seriously considering choking him down, right there. And I had the vision of it and everything.
You don't do that to someone. You just don't leave someone strung up like that. Its not right. Its just plain mean. I don't understand.
So at 0400 this morning, near the end of my shift is when I finally reached my breaking point. I hadn't told my regular partner any of it yet. Only that I had to have a meeting with the Cheif about some stuff. Something happened, can't really remember what, but I ended up sitting in the back of our truck just yelling at her and crying and having a freaking break down.
So what does she do? The big dork. She starts herself crying too.
Great. Now were both sitting in the truck with snot running, noses red, eyes all puffy.....How would you like to be our next patient and we are both a mess.
Thank God for Fire Fighters. They cancelled us on our next 2 calls. Gave us a chance to fix ourselves.
But you know, I just don't understand how anybody in anykind of decent conscience would toss someone under a bus like that and then stand back and watch the wreck without saying a word.
And then he just dissolved into laughter. And the jokes just keep rolling in. 
