Comments for Diary of a Dispatcher http://ambulance999.wordpress.com The life and times of an Ambulance Service dispatcher Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:02:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Psycological Damage by Emily http://ambulance999.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/psycological-damage/#comment-26 Emily Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:02:31 +0000 http://ambulance999.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-26 So tragic. This is why, while I enjoy doing first aid and even what they call "advanced" first aid, I could never go the full way to dealing with these sort of cases as a job. So tragic. This is why, while I enjoy doing first aid and even what they call “advanced” first aid, I could never go the full way to dealing with these sort of cases as a job.

]]> Comment on Friday nights alright for fighting by kingmagic http://ambulance999.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/friday-nights-alright-for-fighting/#comment-25 kingmagic Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:06:12 +0000 http://ambulance999.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-25 My night shift consisted of a serious assault by persons unknown with weapons on a pensioner...a lad who had been glassed in the face by a girl...a MS patient with abdo pains...a 95 year young woman with LVF in a home that did'nt know she was poorly...a young lad who fell off a 15 foot wall onto his heels...a 2 year old male febrile convulsion...other various routine jobs and the obligatory middle aged woman with depression, drunk who wanted to talk to someone at 4 in the morning! That was me (and my crewmate) on one ambulance with everyone else at our station and all the other city stations doing an average of 9 jobs each. So all in all it was a fairly quiet night for a change! My night shift consisted of a serious assault by persons unknown with weapons on a pensioner…a lad who had been glassed in the face by a girl…a MS patient with abdo pains…a 95 year young woman with LVF in a home that did’nt know she was poorly…a young lad who fell off a 15 foot wall onto his heels…a 2 year old male febrile convulsion…other various routine jobs and the obligatory middle aged woman with depression, drunk who wanted to talk to someone at 4 in the morning!

That was me (and my crewmate) on one ambulance with everyone else at our station and all the other city stations doing an average of 9 jobs each.

So all in all it was a fairly quiet night for a change!

]]> Comment on A quite night in by Emily http://ambulance999.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/a-quite-night-in/#comment-24 Emily Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:03:55 +0000 http://ambulance999.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-24 That IS unusual! Pleasant change to eat hot food though! That IS unusual! Pleasant change to eat hot food though!

]]> Comment on We just love Bank Holidays…not! by kennedy121 http://ambulance999.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/we-just-love-bank-holidaysnot/#comment-2 kennedy121 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:43:29 +0000 http://ambulance999.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-2 Oh man, that's awful... I can't believe such crucial public servants such as you guys working in the ambulance service are on the wrong end of such abuse. How you deal with it so patiently and politely is beyond me but shows just why as a country we really need to show our appreciation for people such as yourself a hell of a lot more. Oh man, that’s awful… I can’t believe such crucial public servants such as you guys working in the ambulance service are on the wrong end of such abuse. How you deal with it so patiently and politely is beyond me but shows just why as a country we really need to show our appreciation for people such as yourself a hell of a lot more.

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