Recent content by Tenementfnstr

Haha Ive taken emergencies to the wrong hospital before. Luckily the correct one was only a tenth of a mile away.

I'm really not complaining about the staffing issues, I've been there and I understand that it is a business. Its not the procedure that gets me, its the culture. My old company activley participates in the Code green campaign, we went to seminars, meetings and training about it all the time...

I guess Code Green means dollars will always get in the way of compassion.

Get ready. 1) Worked a code, partner has vomit on his face, I tell him, he denies it and wipes face smearing vomit down to his chin. He still was telling me how careful he is with the suction as I walked to the bathroom to wretch. *gag* 2) Same partner tells a Romanian woman that he can...

I've worked as an EMT on a 24 hour truck for the last year and half. From what I've been told it has been a very eventful year and a half in terms of the bad calls. I worked at a pretty remote station, but lack of coverage required us to the be pretty busy the whole shift. 23 to 28 hours...