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- Exits

"That's a negative, Whiskey-6, fire on scene, saying it's going to be a DOA. Check your call notes, please."I have just been denied a back up request, and toss the mic down in disgust. I've already...

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-Night Shift

The old man wheezes, but it's a regular wheeze, a steady in and out, and I don't let it bother me. His television flickers. I've never seen a lot of these movies they're airing, and his mind has...

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- For those who haven't seen it...

...check this shit out. It's hilarious. Anyone who's ever worked at a company that does long distance transfers has had this scene play through their head at least once.H/T AD and TOTWTYTR-MM

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- Scalped

I'm a city boy. I'll cop to it.I work a rural area, however. This has its advantages - there's a slaughterhouse near our station that THE freshest meat I've ever had the privilege to eat. Ink pan-fried...

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- Walk Up

Dispatch has trapped us in Major Metropolitan Area and has us, a Specialty MICU ambulance, running a routine BLS transfer.As Ink is unloading the stretcher, a silver sedan pulls up. A guy gets out and...

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- Horizon

I'm having a conversation with the Office Czar."No, I didn't check.""No. I just said I didn't check.""Because I was off duty.""Well, I work 60 miles away from where I live.""No.""No.""Seriously?"...

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- State Job

Well, I've been a paramedic with Louisiana DOC for about 2 months now, and I am not impressed. Although I find the expanded medical practice extremely satisfying and rewarding. Jumping through all the...

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- Ventilated

I step under the yellow police tape. The young man is lying there, bleeding, on a pile of towels the people who's threshold he had fallen across had grabbed from under a sink. The towel givers are all...

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- Medals

I am not in the line of fire, although most shifts I encounter life-ending contagious diseases. I am not a hero, but most shifts I help save a life. I'm not a rich man, but I help enrich lives. I'm not...

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- Numb

The carnage is amazing for only having one vehicle involved. The car has flipped multiple times - that much is obvious, from the impact marks in the grass trail of car parts from the roadway. To top it...

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-Self Defense

We have been called out to a domestic dispute between a father and his 16 year old daughter, where the daughter apparently made some sort of threatening gesture after an argument with her dad. The...

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- For those of you under a rock...

....Confessions of an EMS Newbie, featuring my bloggy daddy Ambulance Driver, is a GREAT podcast that covers a rookie's journey through Basic and Paramedic Class. Check it out!-MM

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- Damn

(This whiny, selfserving post deleted by the author. You guys don't need this bullshit)-MM

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- Wow

Fabio and I are blazing to the scene, a gas station off of the main drag in our company's hometown. I've been working here for about a year, following my departure from Louisiana DOC. We're en route to...

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Soaked

There is so much blood on the bed I can't believe it - the sheets are saturated with all hues of red. You can even see blood on her hands, darker than that on the sheets, where I'm assuming she was...

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- Obstructed

The room is hot. I guess the patient didn't like having the AC on so much. She's been here for days and recently returned from having a pacemaker put it. When we walked in, one nurse has her brow...

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- Scaramedics

I was not a good paramedic when I first started out. Shit, I wasn't even a very competent Basic. I mean, I did OK, no truly grievous fuck-ups, but I was not Basic of the Year material. I tried, but in...

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Overheard in ACLS refresher:

Instructor: "Ok, MedicMarch, how would you prepare your patient for cardioversion?"MM: "I get right in front of them and scream 'Prepare to see the face of GOD, MOTHERFUCKER!'I still passed.-MM

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- Thunder in Paradise

She's been standoffish, and it's starting to affect our team dynamic. There's an underlying tension between the two of us - we hang out off duty, drink beers at a local sports bar, whatever off duty is...

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Original recipie, or....

"Frankly, I don't understand. Your performance is slipping. Look at all these refusals on transports. You're 2 percent below the minimum."I'm in the boss's office, called to the carpet. He's got a new...

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- Back in Back(water)

I missed this area. I missed the cane fields, the bayous, the people at walmart.The farms and farm animals.The poor part of town.The rich part of town.The food.And the calls."How long has your toe been...

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- Guns in EMS

This has been getting a lot of discussion lately about EMTs carrying on the job. Personally, I think if you have gone through the process of getting a concealed carry permit, you  should be allowed to...

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Article 2

A little bit of blogroll housecleaning, and two posts for today below. I guess the writing bug has got me again. If you would like your blog linked, leave a comment with below with the address and...

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- Whoops

We had just transferred care of a patient and I'm making eyes and telling jokes to this overly made up nurse who is sitting next to three other relatively attractive nurses at a local ER. One of my...

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- Meat in the Street

The scene is, in a word, chaotic. Fire trucks, police cars, a rescue unit, and now my dinky Jap pickup truck are strewn along the side of the highway as officers reroute traffic in a procession of...

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