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You
Know It's Going To Be A Bad Day In The ER When...
You
show up for work and notice bars have just been installed on all
the windows and there is now a metal detector at the hospital
entrance.
The paramedics in the parking lot are all using mops to clean up
their
ambulances and the EMTs are using a hose.
The off-going shift has a hard time keeping a straight face when
giving
report, especially about Room 15.
Your first patient of the day insists there is no way that she
can be
pregnant. She's crowning.
Your next five patients and their families all scream at you in
different
languages, none of which you speak.
Your next patient screams at you in a language you do
understand, but
you can't remember hearing that many obscenities strung together
at once.
The intoxicated 250 Kg. transvestite in Room 15 keeps trying to
get your
home phone number because you "are just too
sweet."
Your next patient has maggots but isn't dead.
The hospital's attorney wants to talk to you but her secretary
won't
tell you what it's about.
The hospital has a surprise disaster drill. You were the only
one who
wasn't tipped off.
The Department is completely empty and one of the off-going
shift says,
"It's been that way all night, hope you have a quiet
day!"
No one remembered to buy coffee.
You have writers' cramp and still have 7 hours of the shift
left.
The psychiatric patient who thinks he is Jesus was placed in the
same
room as another patient who thinks he is Satan.
You get a subpoena for a lawsuit a on a patient that walked out
of
the department against medical advice two years ago. You can
only
hope that is what the attorney wants to talk about.
The Hospital Administrator left you a cryptic message about a
news
crew showing up "sometime today to do a little filming, so
everyone
act natural."
In the middle of a disaster drill two real trauma patients
present
themselves.
The paramedics who offered to go out and pick up lunch (and
coffee)
just advised over the radio they have witnessed a motor vehicle
accident involving a transit bus versus a minivan. "Stand
by for update."
It's the first day for the new medical interns, paramedic and
nursing
students... all at the same time.
The paramedics tell you the patient you just received with a
closed
head injury, flail chest, and positive belly tap is in
"much better shape
than the one still being cut out of the minivan."
You hear there is an influenza epidemic traveling like wild fire
through
the local convalescent homes.
The psychiatric patients' delusions are beginning to make sense.
Reprinted
With Permission Of
Author: Jerry Fandel, a Paramedic in Alameda County, California
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