A special shout out to all those "helicopter people"

[alphatrauma]

Currently watching MSNBC...

An Idaho woman (Michelle Childers) was apparently impaled through the neck by a falling tree limb, that penetrated the car window. Her husband drove about an hour to get medical help, and was taken via helo to an appropriate trauma center. She subsequently underwent 6 hours of surgery and is recovering quite well.

dr. Nancy (MSNBC medical correspondent) interviews Edward Barksdale M.D., Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery at UH Case Medical Center. dr. Nancy asks Dr. Barksdale to tell the viewers what a trauma surgeon's thought process is, when dealing with such a patient

Dr. Barksdale begins by giving kudos to the trauma surgeons who handled the case, then proceeds to tell America how the REAL work was done by all those "helicopter people" at the scene.


Wow... really? Helicopter people?

 

[VentMedic]

Wow... really? Helicopter people?

He was probably trying to be generic in terms since "helicopter people" can come in all sorts of titles.

 

[PapaBear434]

I saw that too. Eh, I'll take kudos where I can find them. Even when people refer to us as "Ambulance Drivers." I know what they mean, no need to be offended.

Though a Doctor should really know better.

 

[alphatrauma]

...Though a Doctor should really know better.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Instead of being "generic" about the flight crew(s)... [rhetorical]why not elaborate in such a way as to give the public a better understanding of who they were, and what they did?[/rhetorical]

BTW PapaBear... are you at the VB campus? I just finished up there end of August.

 

[firecoins]

helicopter people are the worst kinds of people. I don't wish to congregate with THOSE people.

 

[PapaBear434]

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Instead of being "generic" about the flight crew(s)... [rhetorical]why not elaborate in such a way as to give the public a better understanding of who they were, and what they did?[/rhetorical]

BTW PapaBear... are you at the VB campus? I just finished up there end of August.

Yeah, TCC Virginia Beach campus. Though I've been out for the last two semesters. Getting back in right now, and it's hard to try to get back in the mindset.

 

[VentMedic]

Instead of being "generic" about the flight crew(s)... [rhetorical]why not elaborate in such a way as to give the public a better understanding of who they were, and what they did?[/rhetorical]

Why not elaborate on the Radiology Technologists, Lab Technologist, OR Technicians, Transports, Nurses, Trauma Nurse Specialist, Unit Coordinator, Dispatchers, Evironmental Technicians, Dietary, Respiratory Therapists and soon Phyical Therapists, Speech Therapists, Occupational Therapists. It takes more than just a couple of players to make a team. Sometimes it is hard to know is who and why should just one or two people be singled out for all of the attention. It is also hard for some in EMS to think of a "team" or "system" approach. Those who have worked in hospitals or EDs know about what it means to be a team and what is involved to save a person's life. Everybody's role is important.

Also, he may not know the titles of who was on the helicopter. Yes Flight crew might have sounded better but some think of fixed wing when they hear that term. While it may sound "insulting" to those overly sensitive, it is not any more insulting, actually less, then some EMT(P)s who call a Lab Technologist with a Masters degree a phleb or a Unit Coordinator a secretary. How many know the different titles for nurses? To you they are "just a nurse" and not NP or Trauma Nurse Specialist.

 

[JPINFV]

So... congrats to the pilot for not crashing!


Also... do helicopter people come or become helicopter parents?

 

[MSDeltaFlt]

Currently watching MSNBC...

An Idaho woman (Michelle Childers) was apparently impaled through the neck by a falling tree limb, that penetrated the car window. Her husband drove about an hour to get medical help, and was taken via helo to an appropriate trauma center. She subsequently underwent 6 hours of surgery and is recovering quite well.

dr. Nancy (MSNBC medical correspondent) interviews Edward Barksdale M.D., Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery at UH Case Medical Center. dr. Nancy asks Dr. Barksdale to tell the viewers what a trauma surgeon's thought process is, when dealing with such a patient

Dr. Barksdale begins by giving kudos to the trauma surgeons who handled the case, then proceeds to tell America how the REAL work was done by all those "helicopter people" at the scene.


Wow... really? Helicopter people?

Yeah, "helicopter people" doesn't bother me, especially since I am one. also that Dr. just might also be speaking in a way that some of his pts might understand. He's a "pediatric" surgeon. And we all know they actually didn't to all of the REAL work because they didn't fix the problem. The surgeons fixed the problem. They have the two things we don't have in the aircraft: hot lights and cold steel.

 

[VentMedic]

way that some of his pts might understand. He's a "pediatric" surgeon.

That makes the most sense.

Imagine trying to get a 6 y/o to understand or say "Trau-ma Nurse Spe-ci-al-ist" or "Res-pir-a-tory Ther-a-pist" or "Par-a-med-ic"?

It is hard to turn off the "kid speak" if you've worked the pedi floors awhile.