You know you are an EMT/Paramedic when...

[Jondruby]

When you can go from a dead sleep to driving top speed to your next call in under 5 min.

 

[Spyro2500]

When you start planning to get fuel when the gauge hits three quarters (regardless of whether you are at work or not)

 

[NomadicMedic]

When you're in a restaurant where the fryolator alarm sounds like a pager and you freak out for a moment.

 

[ViolynEMT]

When you don't pull up too closely behind someone at a light so that you can get around them.

 

[Jondruby]

 

[LiveForTheTones]

when your family won't watch TV with you because you say everything that is wrong with shows

Did this watching a show. It involved an MCI -- train crash -- and during triage, the medics had time to sit over a pt and talk about their feelings of drama in their personal life.
I was sitting there like, "That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works."

 

[NomadicMedic]

When you try to punch the ER door code into your home garage door keypad.

(And every ER is something simple like 911*)

 

[StCEMT]

When you sit down on your throne to handle some business and tones go off right as you get situated.

 

[DesertMedic66]

When you try to punch the ER door code into your home garage door keypad.

(And every ER is something simple like 911*)

Only 1 of our ERs is like that. The rest are more numbers. I hate our burn center's keypad. It's electric with digital numbers that change location everytime you turn they keypad on

 

[johnrsemt]

When you are in the Out pt unit at a local hospital for testing; and the fire alarm goes off, and they announce over the PA, and by yelling that everyone in the unit needs to evacuate.
I just kept sitting there, reading; everyone left, came back after FD cleared the unit, I was still in the corner reading: I had looked and sniffed didn't see or smell anything, and ignored it.
The manager almost sh**ed herself when they walked back in and saw me sitting there.
I got in next.

Hospital that I did clinicals in was county hospital, and the only time we evacuated was if we had flames that we couldn't handle with extinguishers (OR during intubations, had a fire, another medic student and I put it out). Fire alarms who cared

 

[VentMonkey]

When you're at work on a unit, and you're worried your 5 year old will get your take home radio, clip the mic, and belt out "daaaddy??..."

 

[NomadicMedic]

When you back your POV into the garage at home and start looking for the radio mic to mark in quarters.

 

[VentMonkey]

Yes, or the blasted reaching for the gear shift in your car like it's the ambulance

 

[Handsome Robb]

Yes, or the blasted reaching for the gear shift in your car like it's the ambulance

Or the transmission lock switch. Or resetting the mileage all the time.


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[StCEMT]

Yes, or the blasted reaching for the gear shift in your car like it's the ambulance

That's just a problem for anyone who drives a truck.

 

[VentMonkey]

Lol, touché. I do love my Tacoma

 

[Jim37F]

My 05 Dakota gear shift lever is in roughly the same spot as our 2012 E450 chassis Mod

I do however back my pickup in everywhere I can, but I actually blame the Army for that haha

Though I never set the parking brake 100% of the time on my truck like i do now until I started driving an ambulance

 

[Specialized]

Yes, or the blasted reaching for the gear shift in your car like it's the ambulance

This! And also hitting the brakes harder than you need to in your POV. I notice I do this in my Civic after driving the box all night.

 

[Chef]

When your medic wakes up on the opposite side of the city and notices that you have made 7 post moves in 2 hours and he cant remember any of them!

 

[NomadicMedic]

You take every meal "to go, just in case"