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We're grateful that you're sharing any stories with us, really.  Keep on truckin'. | ||
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Snet
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On September 19 2012 13:50 thedeadhaji wrote: From the perspective of the EMT, what do you think of people calling you in for symptoms that turned out to be "not too big a deal", but from the perspective of the caller, could have potentially been bad, and they were afraid of taking the patient to ER themselves? Whenever I respond to a call I treat it as this: "I am walking into somebodies worst nightmare." That's literally the only way I think people could stay sane in this job. The healthy people with indigestion symptoms, the people with bad colds, the people with the regular flu... all of them might tolerate their regular sickness differently. Who am I to judge them based on their level of concern? I always tell my patients that it is better safe than sorry, and that not even a doctor can tell you that you're "okay" without extensive tests. | ||
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EnE
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felisconcolori
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The best illustration I have of this is when I accidentally missed the time-out on an alarm system at a place I used to work. I was able to contact the alarm company, use a pass word to declare the alarm a false trigger, and deactivate the system. But the responding police officers did not know that. As I and my coworker exited the buildings, the officers were walking up, talking about a football (US) game. The second they saw two people exiting the building, they were immediately reacting. As in, their guns cleared the holsters in 5 seconds flat while they were yelling at us to freeze. While we complied, dispatch came over their radios with the false alarm trigger, they confirmed, and then (again, very quickly) the guns were put away and they were back to their conversation about football. I mean, just picked it back up without missing a beat as they left. That kind of on/off reaction is pretty foreign to me, and I think most people... you can't just turn "on" and "off". That you can do that, and also maintain a sense of humor, while simultaneously working in an environment when even your best efforts might not keep that patient alive, is amazing. I don't think you're trolling for attention, trying to make yourself out to be a hero, or anything like that. You're telling the stories that you remember. And that's just fine. TL;dr - Eff the haters, they couldn't begin to do what you do. | ||
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