12:01 a.m. - Finish setting up blog. Turn on radio, go to bed.
4:00 a.m. - I wake up to radio noises. Put on clothing as fast as possible, but not fast enough - I see the ambulance pulling out of the garage as I run in. It was a simple run to the nursing home, and the others were considerate and let me rest. I usually use a pager at night, which makes a loud beeping sound before switching to radio, but they're out of comission, so I used a radio, which apparently doesn't wake me up fast enough. They were called back by dispatch before they even got on scene, though, so I missed absolutely nothing except a coffee run.
6:00 a.m. - Come home and everything's snowed in. Shovel for a couple hours.
Coffee. Tired. 8:00 a.m.
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My growing addiction to Emergency Medicine
About Me
- Peter
- I'm in my early twenties, a recent college graduate, and new to EMS. I Attended a BLS course in the fall of 2006 and joined a local ambulance company during the class. I'm currently a Massachusetts certified EMT-Basic, currently working with my squad one 12-hour night shift a week.
Second opinions
Patient confidentiality is very important to me. In sharing my experiences, my intention is to tell the story of my encounters and not to reveal information that my patients would prefer to keep private. Therefore, I've intentionally kept many details vague, not used names, and changed the genders of some of the patients in these entries. If you feel that any of these posts allow for an identification of a specific patient or if you believe that any of the stories posted here violate patient confidentiality, please let me know and I'll immediately remove the offending post.
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