Rules of E.M.S

[Southern Breeze]

I would just like to add this, the back and forth between dispatch and the crews in the field often reaches legendery status.

[Caradoc]

I would just like to add this, the back and forth between dispatch and the crews in the field often reaches legendery status.

Not just for EMT/Paramedics/etc.

I've heard some very weird conversations on MANY communications channels.

Air traffic, for example, has some rather choice anecdotes.

And if you're *really* looking for weird conversations, listen to a group of UNIX sysadmins on an outage call at 2AM, when they're sure that none of the management are listening.

[Kiltedfirepiper]

I remember one day I was working a fire resQ got sent to BFE for a BS call ....well the map book they had wasnt up to date so they got lost ...Alarm called them and asked where they were.....they responded with " we're on a dirt road....heading west ....we're directly under the sun nnnnnnnnnnnnow !


oh yeah they got in trouble .......
theres one of those murphy 's laws that goes like this

paramedics are to assume dispatch is stupid till dispatch proves your assumption

Dispatch is to assume paramedics are stupid till the paramedics prove your assumption

stupid questions...

nurse saying to medic U/A to the hospital w/ an active code arrest
whats his name?....answer "I dont know...I've asked him 4 times and he wont answer!
same code ....."whats his vitals ? .....answer....well.... if we're doing CPR correctly about 100 beats a min. 24 breaths a min. and a systolic of about 40 !

why did you bring him here?
answer.....well the big sign that says EMERGENCY ROOM over the bay kinda tipped us off that we were in the right place!!

there are a lot more of those but I cant remember what site I found them on

NOTE TO NURSES.........please dont be upset with this post ...it was meant in fun ....besides I'm sure you could come up with 100 or more stupid FAQ'a from medics and personally I would LOVE to hear em!
if we cant make fun of ourselves than how can we make fun of anyone else?
as far as dispatchers go ...I'm always nice to them .....cause they can make me work harder if I get them mad!!


Scott.....starting medic school in AUG. ....and cause Im a glutton for punishment medic to NURSING school after that