This is one of the best posts I’ve ever read: What Every Paramedic Student Should Know. Sure, I’m no longer a wanna-be paramedic (Well, I am, but it’s gonna stay wanna-be) but I think it applies to any sort of newbie direct health care provider student, which I hope I will be soon.
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Self FBAO
December 29th, 2008
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So, Christmas Dinner had about ten minutes of “omg, fear!”
Justice made me laugh while I was in the midst of swallowing… and I started choking pretty hard. Was still getting air flow, but not quite enough, so was starting to panic… but it eventually cleared itself out (after I just about threw up, yehaw.) [...]
The paramedic in me finds some of these injuries a little far fetched…
December 4th, 2008
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So from time to time I cyber-stalk my boyfriend. Ok, not really, but I’m interested in the stuff he does, so I keep an eye on the game he’s working on. It’s finally had a release date mentioned (and starting Monday, he’s off til mid-January, lucky bastard) so… I guess I can mention it here? [...]
Donna Do-Right
November 26th, 2008
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I got to play pseudo-paramedic again tonight. Well, that was the intention, although it played out a little differently, with no medical fun. But … from some of the paramedic blogs I read, I get the impression that paramedics do this a lot. So I’m going with it.
So I’m driving home from work (rare, [...]
Have some heart.
October 8th, 2008
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I read a lot of paramedic blogs. Without fail, once or twice a week, one of the posts I read will have me tearing up a bit… like this one. It’s not particularly sad, in fact the turnout was just fine. Unsurprisingly, the 19 yr old kid was NOT having a heart attack. But as [...]
Sometimes my faith in humanity is sorely tested.
September 17th, 2008
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There are times when I simply HAVE to believe in karma, if only because it’s the only way to have faith in humanity.
This morning, I was running a little late for work, so when I saw the bus sitting there when I came out of the building, I started running. Then, I saw a [...]
Contraindications and your junk
September 14th, 2008
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Ok, so Viagra (I’m sure we’re all familiar with that one) and Nitroglycerin (a vasodilator used to treat heart conditions like angina, and is a part of my EMR chest pain protocol) are both on each others contraindication list — ie, Do Not Mix. The main reason being that both are vasodilators and will [...]
*facepalm*
September 8th, 2008
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So I had my second practical exam on Friday.
My skill stations went fine. My full call (turns out, I had to do a full call anyway, bah, despite being told it was just three skill stations) … well, it went GREAT, except for one thing.
The call: Trauma call, patient was hiking, slipped down an [...]
Once more, with feeling
August 20th, 2008
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SWEET. I’ve heard back about my remedial exam already: I got into the one that I thought I was too late for, in early September. Awesome. Which means I won’t be testing on Nick’s birthday, and busy panicking on mine. I can panic this month, instead.
Other things that amuse me, after spending an hour [...]
Do you know where your abdomen is?
August 20th, 2008
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Sometimes, I am colossally stupid.
I know, hard to believe. Here’s the thing: I’m good at this first aid stuff. This might sound conceited, but damnit, I love it and I think it’s fantastic, and I’m pretty confident that I could handle a good deal of weird shit thrown at me.
This doesn’t, unfortunately, stop [...]