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"Did he have one of those little bells and streamers coming out of the handles?" LOL! Oh, if you knew him, you would not think that was a joke! :)

We had a guy who responded on his bicycle wearing his bunker gear once.

We're all "medics" around here in casual usage too. Which can drive you up a wall when people decide to suddenly use "medic" for "paramedic", and tell you the new medic is a medic unlike the other medics and then your head explodes :) IME, none of our patients really know the difference. I'm...

Goose bites hurt. That is all. Okay, so a "friend" was walking one day with her dog, loose since she lives out in the country. The dog ran off for a minute and comes running back with a goose in her mouth! The goose is flapping wildly. It's gotta be as big as this 75-lb dog... So my friend...

I have called and not stopped. I tell dispatch the reason -- if I don't stop and don't see responders on the way, it's either because I'm responding to another call or it's unsafe, both of which are totally cool reasons not to stop. But I hear what you're saying about not wanting to call if you...

"Ditch bag"? Cool. Mine is also my personal first aid kit, of course, which is probably what it mainly gets used for. I keep my aspirin, benadryl, sugar candy and stuff in a little nylon bag, so no one will see it and ask for some if I can't give it out, but I share it with my crew. I also...

What do you teach?

"(Hypercalcemia by the way)" psst... Kris might just not be from around these parts. That's the British spelling.

One of my jobs was at a place where we pulled week-long shifts. Also low call volume (maybe 2 a day) but if we had to transport, it was a good 4-5 hour round trip. Anyhow, since we got to sleep the night through about half the time, we were required to pull work duties in uniform 9-5 and then we...

This seems like a good thread in which to complain about KEDing. MVA, other patient already removed, and that patient had no seat belt and had cracked the windshield. Not just starred, cracked. This patient did not think she was seriously injured, had been ambulatory earlier, but unclear...

Oops, I forgot you don't live on my street. A car has not passed in the past hour, so -- no trauma by vehicle. She probably fell on a hard dirt road from standing, but no bump on the head. Unlikely to be a victim of a moose attack or something, either. So, you do a quick head-to-toe and find...

I warn you in advance I don't have followup on this one, so it's all speculation. Toned out for a unresponsive unknown in the middle of the road. First on scene since it's your street, you head out a mild afternoon up a fairly steep hill to find a teenage girl lying in the middle of the...

No, no problem! It's just that I had an edit button but it wouldn't let me do it, which was frustrating.

I think you need to have it farther north. Like, not as far north as I am now, but as far north as I will be this summer. Just sayin'.

It costs 49 cents a pair to make, but $27 more to run the glossy ads.... :)