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What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:28 pm
by 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.
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:36 pm
by donlever
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:53 pm
by Strangelove
Mëds wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:28 pm
I woulda joined in but I’m white and far too PC for that.
Or you weren't drunk enough.
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:23 pm
by Cousin Strawberry
Mëds wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:28 pm
I woulda joined in
but I’m white and far too PC for that.
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:34 pm
by Meds
Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:23 pm
Mëds wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:28 pm
I woulda joined in
but I’m white and far too PC for that.
Errrr......
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:05 am
by Strangelove
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:20 am
by donlever
Mëds wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:34 pm
Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:23 pm
Mëds wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:28 pm
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
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:51 am
by Meds
donlever wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:20 am
Mëds wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:34 pm
Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:23 pm
Mëds wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:28 pm
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.
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 7:08 pm
by Blob Mckenzie
I thought Mëds was a seven foot [MOD EDIT]
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2024 5:53 pm
by 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.
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2024 6:14 pm
by Cousin Strawberry
Mëds usually spends like half his shift admitting his fares into the emergency ward I heard. Lots of schmoozing nurses
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2024 6:46 pm
by 5thhorseman
Topper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 5:53 pm
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.
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:47 pm
by Meds
Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 6:14 pm
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.
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2024 6:37 am
by 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.
Re: What A Planet Rebooted - Stories from the World of EMS
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2024 6:56 am
by Cousin Strawberry
Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2024 6:37 am
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)
