Posts Categorized: Failure
Booze in the Nose.
of "alcohol on her breath". I've started a lot of charts like this. Seen PD run reports that said the same. I've seen it testified to in court.... And it is pretty interesting, in part because you can't smell alcohol. Sure, you can smell booze--the oth…
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The Mendoza Line
Do you ever feel like we're playing a losing game?
The other day I went through my cardiac arrest statistics. Dispatched to 91 cardiac arrests since I became a medic. ~30/year. I have worked approximately 50% of those. I have EXACTLY 1 cardiac arrest …
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Mostly it’s the getting by thing…
We all joke in ways our families, friends and patients don't understand. See around the 3:20 mark of this video:
Godspeed, friends!
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Sincerity
If you are just trying to be dramatic and get attention, downing a bottle of tylenol is a really crappy way to do it.
Because you'll probably die. Not might. You will most likely die, if you take 100 Tylenol capsules. I'm sorry, but I didn't do it to …
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The Speech
"Mr Thompson.... Today when we arrived your wife was not breathing, her heart was not beating. We began CPR and hooked her up to our cardiac monitor. The monitor showed that your wife's heart had stopped. It had no electrical activity.
At that time we…
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Open Letter to Yvonne B. Singletary
I wish the officer would have been there in court that day. You have no right to disobey traffic laws when you are not in an emergency vehicle. You have not taken Emergency driving courses. You do not drive a vehicle equipped with emergency lights and sirens. You do not have the RIGHT to put others at risk.
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Uninspired.
For months I have struggled to keep this blog alive. I have posts inside me. I have posts started. I just can't muster them out. This is really the way a big chunk of my life is going. I am incredibly happy with my wife and son, but something is amiss.
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Being an EMS Dad
I've been a paramedic for about 19 months. Not very long, really. My first year was spent working for two teeny tiny services with teeny tiny call volumes. The last seven months with a service that runs right around 10,000 calls a year with 3 trucks covering. Needless to say, I have experienced a lot more in the last 7 months than I did in the year prior to this.
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