You know you are an EMT/Paramedic when...

[Sasha]

You look at a 298lb person and go "That's not big!"

 

[SFox3325]

+1

When you watch anything medical on TV and pick apart why it's wrong.





...my family kinda hates me for that one.

My wife hates watching any kind of medical drama shows. My fav. is when the paitent has gone completly flatline on the EKG monitor, and then they grab the Defib. paddles. :wacko:

 

[Lifeguards For Life]

My wife hates watching any kind of medical drama shows. My fav. is when the paitent has gone completly flatline on the EKG monitor, and then they grab the Defib. paddles. :wacko:

Real life medics do that too.........

 

[hoss42141]

You walk into Wal Mart and see an obese or morbidly obese person and the first thing you say to yourself is, "God, my back."

 

[Anjel]

You walk into Wal Mart and see an obese or morbidly obese person and the first thing you say to yourself is, "God, my back."

Or.... Please dont fall down lol

 

[medicdan]

You walk into Wal Mart and see an obese or morbidly obese person and the first thing you say to yourself is, "God, my back."

Or... "Didn't I just take you into the ED?"

 

[Lifeguards For Life]

Lol I've never seen that before! I've seen certain patients wearing paper scrubs after being released, but never this

 

[HotelCo]

You see someplace with a lot of steps and think "damn, that'd suck to carry someone down." same with tight corners.


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[DesertMedic66]

When you make sure you buy a house that is easy to get a gurney in and out of.

 

[NomadicMedic]

When you answer your phone at home with your unit number and say "responding".

 

[shfd739]

When you answer your phone at home with your unit number and say "responding".

Did this recently...I got off of a busy shift as the shift supervisor and answered my personal phone a few times with "---- Ambulance Service, How can I help you?"...My mother hung up on me and my wife laughed. That same morning I tried to put in my fuel card PIN when putting gas in my POV and tried to go "At Post" on the imaginary MDT when I pulled in my driveway.

 

[Forrest]

When you accidentally write "EMT-B", "EMT-P" after signing your name on ANYTHING.

Did that the other day when endorsing a check and when signing the receipt at the chinese restaurant...odd looks needless to say.

 

[kbrodie694]

You walk into Wal Mart and see an obese or morbidly obese person and the first thing you say to yourself is, "God, my back."

Or you think, thank God this isn't my area and I'm not on call if anything does happen!

 

[kbrodie694]

You have been on a call and had to ask multiple fire, police, and bystanders where is the patient and couldn't get a good answer from anyone but they all had to be there for the fender bender!

 

[exodus]

You have been on a call and had to ask multiple fire, police, and bystanders where is the patient and couldn't get a good answer from anyone but they all had to be there for the fender bender!

That's when you yell, "Who's driving this Red Lexus?" Then ask if anyone else was in the car with them, and so on. lol.

 

[johnrsemt]

Coming home after a l o n g 24 hour shift; pulled into driveway, got out to walk into my house and there is a deputies car sitting in driveway behind me: first thought was how did I not hit him pulling in.

When I went and talked to him, he said he followed me home to see who I was because at the 6 stoplights he followed me through I stopped at each checked both ways and then ran them. OOPS.
He thought it was funny, it helped that he was on 9 of the 11 runs we had on the 12 hours of his shift over night.

 

[sirengirl]

Coming home after a l o n g 24 hour shift; pulled into driveway, got out to walk into my house and there is a deputies car sitting in driveway behind me: first thought was how did I not hit him pulling in.

When I went and talked to him, he said he followed me home to see who I was because at the 6 stoplights he followed me through I stopped at each checked both ways and then ran them. OOPS.
He thought it was funny, it helped that he was on 9 of the 11 runs we had on the 12 hours of his shift over night.

sorry to be a jerk but I love this so much. Kinda wish there was cop-cam video of it... sigh.

 

[LostViet408]

When you get into your own car, reset the Odometer, then drive to the super market and call your wife on the phone and say your "at destination, 0.8 miles"

 

[NomadicMedic]

Haha. I reset the trip odometer on my truck this morning when I was leaving work! I noticed I did it and started laughing.


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[Anjel]

Haha. I reset the trip odometer on my truck this morning when I was leaving work! I noticed I did it and started laughing.


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Ive done that too lol