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I once made a call to medical command during a cardiac arrest call in which the physician hung up the phone, turned to the nurses, and said, “They’re coming in with a cardiac arrest, but I hear laughter in the background.”  This makes me no stranger to the things healthcare workers of all sorts do to relieve stress–but in the defense of my crew and me, we were in the back of an ambulance with no one else around.

It’s important to stress that last bit:  no non-healthcare workers around.  It’s also important to realize that there are limits, no matter how alone you are:

An ambulance man placed a prawn on the chin of a patient awaiting electric shock treatment for a heart attack and joked: ‘Let’s see if we can cook this prawn.’

Meanwhile, a fellow crew member (named Greedy, no less–the eighth dwarf, if I’m not mistaken) munched on celery he’d found in the patient’s kitchen, which (when you think about it) is a minor form of theft.

I’m trying hard to find something funny to say about this, but I can’t possibly outdo the actual text of the article.

Except to say that everybody knows prawns won’t cook right on a defibrillator without a little butter.