I got yelled at by a brand new resident at the local trauma center a couple months back. We had a guy that was at his job, loading a cabinet onto the back of a pickup truck. He had his foot up on the tailgate, to help him push it up toward the cab. The tailgate let loose, and he fell sideways. He landed on his feet, but smacked his left kidney really hard on the end of the tailgate.
He said it immediately felt hot and spreading, and felt like he had to pee. So he went inside, and urinated what he said "looked like pure blood." He got a light headed at that sight, so he walked out to the main office, where the secretary and the boss both were, sat down on the floor, gently laid himself down, and passed out.
We show up, confirm that he did not fall and that he had no head/neck/spine pain, no deformities of any sort, and no signs whatsoever of trauma. We decided that we could safely release C-Spine, helped him onto the stretcher, and started rolling to the nearest trauma center Priority 3.
The resident, who had just been there a week, started freaking out us. He had heard the word "fall," and decided by default that he should have been backboarded, collared, and brought in Priority 1. He threatened to take our "license," have security remove us from the hospital and even not let us take the ambulance back because we "...weren't fit to be seen in it." He then started collaring the guy, ineptly I might add, because he couldn't figure out how to apply the collar.
He called our medical director, who came to the hospital immediately. He looked at the patient, talked to him, talked to us, and promptly told the resident to go get the attending. He told him he might want to put a leash on the new guy, because we did exactly what we were supposed to do and that the resident way overstepped his bounds, not including issuing impotent threats to take away our ambulance with no such authority to do so.
I just about cheered when I heard that, but I kept it to a smile. It helped that my partner that day was one of the chiefs, a 29 year medic, and friends with the director, but that resident was a moron.
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