Me: Okay, So Imagine For A Moment... That The Monitor Is Your Patient, Ok?

This is the End Goal of Capitalism

I have had strong visions of the need for a specifically geriatric care orientated fast response team for evictions,.

Hospital staff stop walking out in front of the moving stretcher challenge

Gotta say, I was prepared for a lot when I became an EMT, but what I was not prepared for was the amount of other queer people in this field.

It's nice

If you live in an area with multiple hospitals within a small radius (I'm talking within a 30-40 minute drive), it's good to take the time to look up what hospitals offer what services.

Hospital A might be 10 minutes away, but it doesn't have a cath lab, so they won't be as helpful if you have a heart attack. Hospital B that's 20 minutes away does.

Some hospitals offer better prenatal care. Some are better for physical trauma. Ambulance crews are taught to know which hospitals are most appropriate for emergencies, but it's good to know who does what

Me, looking through the worms I dug up:

"Alright, only one of you can crawl into my ear canal and you better get me put in charge of the board of health after"

Playing a dangerous game by trying to eat my spaghettios while my coworker, who is notorious for turning us all into flight medics, drives to the next call

Incredibly valid tags

"Wow you've been really quiet today, you must have had a lot of runs huh?"

"haha yeah it's been uh. It's been a day."

"you took a nap on the bench seat again huh?"

"yeah... Yeah I did."

Update: Olive smell came back but I was spared it's wrath because I spilled my coffee

Got in the truck today and it smelled inexplicably like olives.

I don't know why it smelled like olives.

I didn't find any olives.

I didn't even like olives.

But either way I wasn't having it.

So now the truck smells like bleach.

In EMS the most common crime I see (in hospitals and the field) is documentation related. Specifically when the EMT or nurse writes "18" for patient respiratory rate in the patient chart.

Seeing y'all's responses to the "are your relatives criminals" poll is cracking me up.

Criminality isn't a matter of getting arrested or convicted, or a particularly good marker of morality.

Depending on where you are, crossing the street wrong is a crime. If you're American and you've ever picked up a feather, you have probably committed a federal offense.

Not even gonna get into the fact that homosexuality is still a crime in places.

The point is that you're probably all criminals.