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Snet
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Aerisky
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We're grateful that you're sharing any stories with us, really.  Keep on truckin'. | ||
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ReketSomething
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
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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Antimatterz
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surfinbird1
Germany999 Posts
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EnE
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Ah well, good post. | ||
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felisconcolori
United States6168 Posts
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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Grend
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On September 19 2012 19:02 Grend wrote: Hey I want the exciting stuff, not everyday normal stuff! +1, besides you're writing cause you want to, not to cater to us (but if you are writing to entertain, then exciting plz!) | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
Keep writing your blogs about what you want, I just think it's really cool that you wrote this blog and explained that you're aware of how it sounds etc. | ||
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kusto
Russian Federation823 Posts
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y0su
Finland7871 Posts
Basic Service Calls Ah, My Ride (company I worked for). such good times... I've always appreciated your blogs. The 1% makes the 99% worth it. | ||
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MavivaM
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Being over dramatic actually is fine, all the people do that when telling a story, exagerating is in the human nature. The thing is... sometimes there are stories that are just too crazy to be believed even if they are 100% true. Keep writing, I can relate On September 19 2012 18:48 felisconcolori wrote: I've always heard the dictum that emergency first responders (EMTs, Firefighters, Police) live in a world that is 99% mind numbing boredom with 1% shrieking terror and insanity. I mean, a lot of their time is in preparation, or waiting. Going straight from the mundane into the extreme with little to no warning, and then often times having to switch back to a mundane frame of mind (false alarms, misunderstandings, etc). I think you are absolutely right about the ratio, but not entirely about the mental aspect. Imo is less harder than you may expect. The thing is: paramedics are not emotively involved. Sure, there's always that one time when you feel depressed right after and I even know about a woman who had to work on a car crash when her son was involved without knowing it beforehand (otherwise the central wouldn't have sent her - shit went really wrong) but these are extremely rare exceptions. Except for that, we are not personally involved: we don't personally know who we are going to take and most of the times we don't really care, even. I hope not to be misunderstood since "not caring" seems quite cold, but I can't express myself well in english. Still, there's a big difference between a random patient and your son. If your son dies you almost die with him, if a random guy dies you accept it quite quickly since that's the way life works and it's not likely your first, second, tenth time. Also during these emergency situations we are healthy and fine, that makes a big difference. About the 1% of work, here's what a colleague of mine has to say ^_^ First Law of Emergency Thermodynamics : the probability of being called is directly proportional to the temperature of your lunch Never understood why people tend to get hurt when you are eating or watching Dreamhack with your base's PC. | ||
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
On September 19 2012 19:24 Tobberoth wrote: Not that I ever disliked your blogs, but this one sort of hit the spot for me, your blogs always had an air of being a bit over the top and overly dramatic. Not saying that you were lying or anything, it just seemed like "Oh, it's a Snet blog, it will be some amazing story where he saved someones life 2 seconds before said person had a baby, and then 5 pages of people praising him for being a hero and doing something pretty much no one else can do". Keep writing your blogs about what you want, I just think it's really cool that you wrote this blog and explained that you're aware of how it sounds etc. It does become kind of tiresome. I don't know if its some sort of subconscious jealousy that I'm not aware of, but its like every blog posits the exact same response. You're a hero, everything you do is amazing, I could never be like you. It just gets tiresome when you read that in every blog, and the subject matter kind of supports those responses indirectly. Its like these blogs have become a cult of personality where people just worship Snet. Like it doesn't even matter what he puts out there (with the possible exception of this reflective blog), you can expect all the responses to be hero worship, I guess it just feels excessive and a bit too egotistical. Maybe I'm bothered that it seems less about what he's doing and more about one person. But I'm glad that isn't Snet's intention, I'm thankful he wrote this to clarify . | ||
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psychopat
Canada417 Posts
As far as "reality" goes, I think it's safe to assume that everyone should know that. It's common sense. I remember reading a study where they determined that most people are slightly more depressed than 100+ years ago because of the select knowledge of others' lives. In other words, it's a lot easier to feel down about your own situation when you compare your own mundane, day-to-day activities with what everyone else is sharing about their lives - essentially their highlight reels. They essentially posited that mostly everyone is feeling uninteresting and that it's just based on an incomplete point of view. As far as the paramedic line of work goes, I assume a lot of it is mundane. I don't mean that in a bad way, but maybe I can describe it better in an example. When my dad got attacked & beat up by a family member, the cops were called afterwards. They came to his house, took a report and so forth. Even though he insisted he was fine and just bruised, they made an ambulance come. The poor paramedics had to answer the call, essentially for nothing because there was no emergency; there was no real need for them to be there. I also remember one of them commenting that it was more exciting than what they were doing before anyway. I just hope they didn't put others at risk trying to get there quickly, burning through reds and whatnot, for such a waste of time... | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32083 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
I have realized my blogs have been either depressing, unbelievable, attention seeking, and/or seen as bragging/gloating. It's your blog, do as you feel. I like them. | ||
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snively
United States1159 Posts
depressing, unbelievable, attention seeking, and/or seen as bragging/gloating. ?!!?! your blogs are awesome just the way they are. DONT LISTEN TO THE HATE | ||
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snively
United States1159 Posts
On September 20 2012 07:14 ]343[ wrote: wait, people dislike your blogs...? yea this was my first thought too | ||
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Carson
Canada820 Posts
tl;dr keep writing | ||
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GohgamX
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Chef
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I have no problem with you personally or what you do or the fact that you write a blog, but if you're trying to take criticism I think people are misunderstanding the part of these blogs which is irking them. It's how you're getting the message across, not the message itself. It just seems like it thinks its a little more clever/powerful than it is. "Today I saved a life." Where have I heard that before? The more cliche, the more ingeniune it feels. I can just hear batman narrating some horrible movie sometimes. "I didn't give them the hero they wanted, I gave them the hero they needed." Whooooooa deep. If you have an interesting life don't sully it like this, just write more naturally. Boxer wasn't any kind of writer but his bio was interesting because he wrote how he felt and about himself. I don't feel like I am reading about a human being when it seems too cliche ;p derp burp. It's just my feedback, anyway. Do with it what you will. | ||
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docvoc
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CakeOrI)eath
United States327 Posts
You often talk about the thrill you get from saving someones life. Some people have interpreted that as you arrogantly taking sole credit for saving them. I don't. You played an important role that you should be proud of and without it many of your patients would have died. Sure, other people were sometimes more critical to patient outcomes but this isn't their blog. The great things that the nurses, other EMTs, doctors, technicians, etc. should be celebrated but they don't take away from the things you do. | ||
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Badjas
Netherlands2038 Posts
I appreciate it. | ||
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Keniji
Netherlands2569 Posts
I for myself enjoyed your stories so far. + Show Spoiler + And if you wish to brag you actually have the damn right to do so, too | ||
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jackstitties
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FryBender
United States290 Posts
Well, due to this blog I have to apologize for what I wrote in your previous blog. I misinterpreted your motivation for writing this blog and and misjudged you as a person in general. I was wrong and for that I apologize. | ||
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