“You were quick!” says the very pale looking man who answered the door. He looked like the person that we were calling to see – a male in his 70’s who is complaining of shortness of breath with hemoptysis, hence the small amount of blood on his top lip coming from his nose and mouth.
Recently I had an Epiphany….
a Sudden Realisation that I was going to be a Paramedic!
We were called to a nursing home to a male with a report BM of 1.8 (this is a low blood sugar level that could result in unconsciousness)….
“Carers Leave Patient on Floor for over an Hour Illegally!” now that would be an interesting headline in a news paper, although we know it will more likely be “Ambulance takes an Hour to attend to Terminally ill man!”….
So why might we see a headline like this…..
A very short blog post to say that Mrs Paramedic Blogger emailed me a link to an article on the BBC Website -
Call for 999 ambulance response targets rethink
I don’t think I could put it any better than she did….
In the last month the BBC have reported on 5 different incidents where an Ambulance Service Vehicle has been involved in a Road Traffic Accident/Incident/Collision (or what ever you want to call it). Of the five incidents two of them resulted in three deaths….
The facts are simple….
Not only are ambulance personnel working harder due to [...]
New blog, new domain name and maybe a new type of blog post….
The end of the degree course is in sight, I have been allowed back onto the road after nearly a year off of the road, and now maybe its time to see the end of my “Angry” posts and time to start being [...]
If ya have a spare hour its worth heading over to www.copycodethree.com to download or listen on-line to Tom Reynolds of Random Acts of Reality talking about how he started off in the NHS, and life and politics in London….
I have just read an article on the BBC Website - Gas inhaling doctor can practice and was angered by the story. In a nutshell, a Doctor whilst on duty on a Children’s Ward inhaled entonox, a pain relieving gas, not just once, but four times, one of those times was described as an Entonox [...]
As you can tell, when I’m not on the road I read too much news about the Ambulance Service…
was reading this particular article which wound me up!
This is an incident in London where a patient had to wait a whole 16 minutes for an Ambuance – I’m sure some people would welcome an Ambulance in [...]
OK People, listen up and listen up good!
This swine flu malarkey isn’t as bad as the media is making out, many more people die every year from normal flu than has died from the Swine Flu.
But that said, we don’t want it anymore than you do, so please dont call us, call your GP or [...]
