The challenges of emergency calls

Started the weekend off right, well I thought. My partner wasn't there, I would be getting the 24 hour shift medic, she had been on a day before and then on call that night, worked this morning, then working tonight because of a schedule fiasco on the bosses part. I start this writing a bit puzzled. I know, what I need to say but I want to hold it in also. I came to work tonight and found a full ER. There you have it, I work hospital based EMS. I found out over the past 2 years that alot of EMS agencies do work hospital based, it keeps their education up, and skills also. I thought I was special all along! I did get one piece of good news, A RIDER! SLAVE! I thought to myself. Just a note, a great song (I'm not a perfect person, I never meant to do those things to you. I found a reason to change who I used to be, a reason to start over new, and the reason is YOU!) Okay that was nice and will fit in later, the song playing as I wrote this, before I came online to type it out of c...

Tonight, I came to work, I intended to have a bit of genious. I know my partner would be sleeping, as she is starting a 24 hour shift backwards, she is starting the first 12 hours at night. I had all intentions again, no joking, to be all insightful, and boasting with insight, WOW such words for 0500 hrs. We have been moderately busy, a febrile seizure here , cough/cold there, irritated eyes, foley displacement, ya we see it all. I am just happyto have a job, where I can do my own thing occassionally. I do enjoy meeting nice people, nurses, elderly, who are friendly, friendly ticket writing state troopers. One thing I will miss if I switch jobs, is the connection to the police, fire, other ems, and other groups. As I am writing this I hear a neighboring area receiving a call from an Inbound ambulance, from the sounds of it the Pt's only doctor is a psych doctor, she has requested admission to their unit, pt was involved in an argument with her boyfriend, she threatened to ki...