Life-Saving Ambulance Run Brings Speeding Ticket

thesavagemonk

I work as a firefighter/EMT in a fairly rural area. I was once called to a residential fire. We pulled up to a mobile home with smoke coming out of the back. When we walked around, we found that there was a strange wooden structure nailed to the back of the mobile home, and that the majority of the fire was coming from that. The owner of the property, a bearded man with few teeth cursing and waving a garden hose. We put out the fire pretty quickly, and there was minimal damage to the home itself. The wooden structure, on the other hand, was destroyed.

Before we left, our captain asked the man if he knew how the fire may have started. The man answered that he had started the fire intentionally. As we all listened, the man described how he had started to build an "addition" to his house, but realizing that he was too lazy to finish it, decided to burn it down. "But it's okay!" he said. "I had a garden hose in case things got out of hand!"

thesavagemonk

Oh, I didn't understand what you meant. You're right; I'm sorry.

thesavagemonk

No.

Edit: I'm wrong: see below.

thesavagemonk

I really like these.

thesavagemonk

A lot of people do, but what they don't realize is that a tag like that doesn't count for anything. It needs to be a signed medical order from a physician for anybody to pay attention.

thesavagemonk

You're thinking of an advance health care directive (living will). That is, if I'm a vegetable, don't keep me on life support for longer than xx days. In my state there are two types of DNRs. The first is called Comfort Care, where we have a specified scope of practice that essentially involves no life saving interventions, so we are not allowed to: administer chest compressions, insert an artificial airway, administer resuscitative drugs, defibrillate or cardiovert, provide respiratory assistance (other than suctioning the airway and administering oxygen), or initiate resuscitative IV or initiate cardiac monitoring.

Comfort Care-Arrest on the other hand, permits us to do all of those things (except chest compressions) up until the point that they lose their pulse or stop respirations.

thesavagemonk

I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that that is true.

thesavagemonk

I've never seen sponges have sex, but I sort of wonder if this really is a "sensical" analogy. But also, no I've fortunately never encountered a DNR in the field.

thesavagemonk

You drive me nuts. Also, if the patient or patient's family can't produce the signed DNR within a reasonable amount of time, the EMT can legally continue resusitation efforts.

thesavagemonk

Pan's Labyrinth

thesavagemonk

The Life Aquatic

thesavagemonk

Well, I don't know what I expected...

thesavagemonk

You counted wrong.

thesavagemonk

Will you sacrifice yourself to save your coworkers? Can you?

thesavagemonk

My only regret is that I have Boneitis!

thesavagemonk

Those guys on stage at the very end don't look too happy.

thesavagemonk

Well, I'm aroused. There goes my day.

thesavagemonk

Fuck that. I'm gonna let the doctor explain.

thesavagemonk

Pan's Labyrinth.

thesavagemonk

No, hold on. Before you downvote me: In the movie Harry says he feels badly. Harmony corrects him, telling him to use bad instead; badly is an adverb, which means it modifies the verb (in this case), so when Harry says "I feel badly..." what he's really saying is "I am bad at feeling..." (roughly). Then later, Gay Perry says, "I hope you sleep badly" and Harry tries to correct him, and Gay Perry reacts as in charlesviper's quote above.

TL;DR: You're wrong.

thesavagemonk

TROPHY CASE

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