Welcome to the ghetto
New medics are assigned to work with older medics for at least a few months. One such partner I had a few months ago finished his field training in a very nice part of the county. Then, his first shift...
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Code 3 for chest pain. There’s a bus parked at a corner as we approach. Cops are there too. I groan; bus calls are stupid. Apparently a car rear-ended this bus a few blocks back in a hit-and-run. There...
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We pick up this well-dressed young man at the train station. The police called because he, well, had an episode on the train. No facilities onboard. “I’ve had diarrhea for the last couple of days. I...
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Code 3 for a vehicle accident. PD requests 3 ambulances. It appears that Car #1 struck a parked Car #2. Not a huge wreck. The driver of Car #1 gets packaged and sent to the ED. There are 2 women in Car...
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Code 3 for a fall. On a bus. Fucking bus. I hate bus calls. PD is already there. Fire arrives and I tell them we got it. An old Chinese man was on the bus and fell when the bus braked suddenly. He has...
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Code 3 for someone who fell out of his wheelchair. At Walgreens. And, of course, at 3am. The guy’s sitting on the ground next to his wheelchair. “What’s your name?” “Spider.” “Spider?” “Spider.”...
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I’m in an unmarked agency car, coasting towards a red light not far away because, well, it’s red. It means stop, or so I thought. Some woman in a giant SUV drives right up to what seems like the back...
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Code 2 for a lift assist. On a bus. Having ridden a lot of buses in many different countries, traveling by bus around here has got to be the most inefficient way to get around, if you consider only...
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Code 3 for “nervous breakdown” on a bus. You read that right – this was actually how it was dispatched. Apparently you can call 911 for anything. It was a very careful drive to the call, if you get my...
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Code 3 for an intoxicated subject on a bus. So there’s a drunk on the bus. What else is fucking new. There are only 3 call types involving buses – drunk, seizure, fall, and sometimes 2 or all 3 of them...
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