Of course, with my luck, when I get struck by a bus my hospital will be on bypass, and I'll have to go who knows where.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
When I Get Struck By a Car
It's starting to get weird working at a high-level trauma center. I've lived in its general area for a while now, so I've always heard ambulances and helicopters, but now I'm starting to realize: those are people going to where I work. I hear stories in the morning on the news radio about people getting shot or hit by cars, and by the night I'm hearing about the patients. I mean, people at work don't really gossip about patients—no, really, they don't—it's just once or twice I've heard things that matched up to what I heard in the news. (Don't worry, I would never post about those cases.) Anyway, I live in the area serviced by this hospital, and I go to work on foot, crossing some pretty busy city streets in the process. So that means if I get hit by a car, or mugged, or have a heart attack, or a meteorite falls on me, I'll be going to work in an ambulance—not just to my hospital, but possibly, after being patched up in the ER and surgery, to my unit! I wonder who'll be on that day. I wonder if that question will go through my head.
Of course, with my luck, when I get struck by a bus my hospital will be on bypass, and I'll have to go who knows where.
Of course, with my luck, when I get struck by a bus my hospital will be on bypass, and I'll have to go who knows where.
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my dad is a retired paramedic. 27 years driving and working in the back of an ambulance. he's pretty amazing in my eyes. My hero. I've been on calls with him.
ReplyDeleteThankfully he's never shown up on a scene to find a family member. I can't imagine what that would be like.
I have a weird feeling we worked in the same neuro trauma unit it the same big city hospital (but not at the same time, I am older than you!).
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in labor I definitely picked out the nurses I wanted to take care of me. Inside information can be a good thing! It is one of the few perks of being a nurse.
God I hate neuro! Even lung transplant patients are more fun than neuro. Plastics, cardiac,L&D the only thing more at the bottom of my list is ortho. But the only reason I know this, is because I floated at one of our world renoun medical establishment. At that place I thought, "If this is how the best ones work, I am afraid to see how the bad ones are run." Unfortunately, I have found out.
ReplyDeleteReality Rounds: this is also one of the perks of home birth! the same midwife I interviewed (and decided to hire) at the beginning of my pregnancy attended me through all my prenatal appointments, my entire labor, and birth. no surprises, no strangers. :)
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