What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS

[Meds]

At work….no free beds in emerg where they are Short staffed and have closed the low acuity zone and attached triage area.

All of our local crews in the hallway with patients on stretchers so my partner and I got asked to temporarily staff the low acuity zone and turned it into a drunk babysitting area so the other crews could clear.

At one point the patients were a trio of First Nations dudes, all shitfaced drunk. Now They are awake and just drunk talking to each other. Suddenly they start singing together loudly: “1 little, 2 little, 3 little Indians…

I woulda joined in but I’m white and far too PC for that.

[donlever]

https://youtu.be/UZtyOkKnH5I?si=FxTl_Qixs5U78nNB

[Strangelove]

I woulda joined in but I’m white and far too PC for that.

Or you weren't drunk enough.

[Cousin Strawberry]

I woulda joined in but I’m white and far too PC for that.

[Meds]

I woulda joined in but I’m white and far too PC for that.

Errrr......

[Strangelove]

[donlever]

I woulda joined in but I’m white and far too PC for that.

Errrr......

So...Mëds summary circa 2024....

5'7"
Caucasian
A nurse
Holds PG Cougar seasons

[Meds]

I woulda joined in but I’m white and far too PC for that.

Errrr......

So...Mëds summary circa 2024....

5'7"
Caucasian
A nurse
Holds PG Cougar seasons

deliaN ti reveL.

[Blob Mckenzie]

I thought Mëds was a seven foot [MOD EDIT]

[Topper]

Took my kid to emergency the other day at 8am. We sat for two hours waiting to get into triage. We were the only ones there. Through the glass I could see nurses chatting, combing their hair, wandering out to the hallway to fill their water bottles.... The hallways were bustling with administrators walking around with clip boards.

Half that medical staff and likely 3/4 of the admin could be fired and no one would notice.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Mëds usually spends like half his shift admitting his fares into the emergency ward I heard. Lots of schmoozing nurses

[5thhorseman]

Half that medical staff and likely 3/4 of the admin could be fired and no one would notice.

Massive overspending in Fraser Health as well, and the government seems powerless to stop it.

[Meds]

Mëds usually spends like half his shift admitting his fares into the emergency ward I heard. Lots of schmoozing nurses

I'm married to one of them.....so yeah.

[Chef Boi RD]

Come to Vancouver, my Mom broke her hip this summer, took the ambulance an hour to get to her, she lives in Lynn Valley, a 5 minute drive from Lions Gate Hospital. Emergency was a gong show, mayhem, packed, not enough beds, not enough staff, Fentanyl heads everywhere needing some sort of shit, one Fent head in front of us a scag in her short shorts who looked like she sells herself for her dope was bleeding down her leg from her crotch for reasons I don’t want to know was in front of us. If you think the interior hospitals are a ghost town you should come down for a visit to the hospitals of Vancouver. It’s a shit show circus. The infrastructure can’t handle the population growth and drug crisis in Vancouver. Chef is outta here soon, saw a show this week at Rogers arena took the bus to it through the DTES, bus stops for a crackhead at one stop, had to wait for him to finish taking a hit off his crack pipe, not a word of a lie, he got off three stops later, 3 blocks. It was like a safari cruise through fentanyl Mardi Gras for miles on end, it’s growing like wild fire. Unbelievable if you haven’t been through the DTES lately.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Come to Vancouver, my Mom broke her hip this summer, took the ambulance an hour to get to her, she lives in Lynn Valley, a 5 minute drive from Lions Gate Hospital. Emergency was a gong show, mayhem, packed, not enough beds, not enough staff, Fentanyl heads everywhere needing some sort of shit, one Fent head in front of us a scag in her short shorts who looked like she sells herself for her dope was bleeding down her leg from her crotch for reasons I don’t want to know was in front of us. If you think the interior hospitals are a ghost town you should come down for a visit to the hospitals of Vancouver. It’s a shit show circus. The infrastructure can’t handle the population growth and drug crisis in Vancouver. Chef is outta here soon, saw a show this week at Rogers arena took the bus to it through the DTES, bus stops for a crackhead at one stop, had to wait for him to finish taking a hit off his crack pipe, not a word of a lie, he got off three stops later, 3 blocks. It was like a safari cruise through fentanyl Mardi Gras for miles on end, it’s growing like wild fire. Unbelievable if you haven’t been through the DTES lately.

Wait a minute ...aren't you a born again lefty? Those are your peeps!

I'll say this about Berta...the health care system here is night and day better than back in BC. The cities aren't that great but smaller communities have much better medical infrastructure in place than what I experienced with the equivalent in BC (Okanagan health care)