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by dr-exmedicAbsentee medical directors can create quite a problem for EMS services and their patients–but can you blame them? And just how bad is the problem anyway?
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Absentee medical directors can create quite a problem for EMS services and their patients–but can you blame them? And just how bad is the problem anyway?
Growing up, I didn’t realize that there were paramedics other than those in a fire department–virtually every EMS service around me was fire-based, and I’d grown up watching Emergency! Courtesy (some time ago, actually) of Echomouse, I present to you what is quite possibly the worst firefighter cake ever.
Overheard among medical students talking about their 4th-year rotations: Student 1: You’re doing ER? Do you really like working hard or what? Student 2: I didn’t think it was going to be hard….
There are some things I wish I’d learned to avoid as early as paramedic school, but didn’t. Certain questions asked of patients are among those things.
Some medical students were discussing whether Pittsburgh or Philadelphia was a better city, and I managed to end the argument with a single sentence: “Even as a native Clevelander, it’s obvious that Pittsburgh is far better.”