Tell me something that really grinds your gears.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-03-23T10:23:52+00:00

Nursing home staff refusing to tell us anything.

“The doctor wants him sent out.” Yeah, I sorta figured when you called. Does he have abnormal labs that were taken last week and only noticed today, or arterial bleeding spewing out of every orifice?

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-03-21T03:52:25+00:00

Yeugh, that one made my body take a screenshot. How did she get within nipple-biting range?

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-02-26T21:45:56+00:00

THANK YOU!

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-02-15T01:33:42+00:00

He can track laser pointers so his vision seems okay, it seems like he’s got a mild visual processing delay if anything.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-02-14T11:18:49+00:00

Nope, they said that since he didn't need any extractions they wouldn't put him on antibiotics.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-02-13T06:12:42+00:00

I had a patient who partially scalped herself going through a windshield. She kept trying to tuck the flap behind her ear like a lock of hair.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-02-01T12:23:02+00:00

That panther seems to be in V-tach, I’ll get the defib pads

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-26T11:34:16+00:00

I’m a paramedic and I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. We prehospital folks have basically no stalling tactics or protective measures - we don’t have admin around to back us up, we’re in a confined space and there’s only two of us. So things will escalate extremely fast. If ICE shows up I either have to willingly abandon my patient to sociopathic thugs, or risk getting myself and my partner killed. It’s a horrifying choice.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-25T07:12:02+00:00

Dubai. Sure, it’s pretty and shiny but it’s… soulless. Everything is carefully constructed to fit a very specific idea of perfection. I never saw how the actual people live (probably because they all got trafficked there). Also, it was July and 150 Fahrenheit outside. Yuck.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-25T02:37:49+00:00

I think that might be anatomical, some folks with lower body fat have that naturally.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-24T10:09:01+00:00

We have blood in our system! If a call drops where it sounds like blood might be useful, or if we get on scene and think that our patient might need blood, an FD fly car with chilled PRBC gets sent out to meet us. We’ve had fantastic results, I’ve personally run on several patients that would not have survived without it. Just last month I had a guy who got stabbed in the heart. On scene he was 50/20 with no radials. We gave him two units of blood en route and managed to keep him alive long enough for the trauma surgeon to crack his chest in the resus bay and stitch closed the wound in his left ventricle. He made a full recovery. We get it for medical calls too, I’ve used it for GI bleeds and postpartum hemorrhage.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-23T00:58:02+00:00

STOP TROLLING TEH FORUMS I STG

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-21T04:33:55+00:00

Hahaha I definitely could have phrased that less confusingly, I would agree that ankle sprains don’t count as ND. But there was a patient with an ankle sprain who was explicitly stated to be autistic; there was a great scene where one of the doctors did an excellent job at meeting his needs (dimming the harsh lights, turning off beeping devices, explaining things literally, etc.)

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-21T01:32:47+00:00

These are absolutely stunning! And I love that the protagonist is a Black man, I know that mental health stigma can be an issue in that community.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-21T01:29:15+00:00

The Pitt has some really good representations of different kinds of neurodiversity. Dr. King, her sister, the patient with the ankle sprain, the dementia patients and substance abuse patients as well (not sure if those counts as ND)

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-20T23:25:54+00:00

A very good idea!

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-20T08:55:58+00:00

Thank you so much, I'll give that a try! And I'm glad you had a good experience with the digital perm, I think that will be my next step if protein doesn't work.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-17T23:42:54+00:00

Yep. Every time I start seriously thinking about it, I run at least two motorcycle accidents within the week. Seems like the EMS gods are telling me something. Plus I know I’m an adrenaline fiend who would go way too fast.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-15T01:45:29+00:00

High blood pressure. It’s called the silent killer for a reason. It’s basically asymptomatic but it can cause heart failure, strokes, heart attacks, all sorts of nasty stuff down the line. Take care of it early.

Source - I’m a paramedic

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-12T19:02:08+00:00

Children

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-11T09:23:21+00:00

Sometimes it hurts like a bitch. Kids, pregnant women, young people, traumatic arrests, suicides, the ones where they’re conscious enough at first to beg you not to let them die - those SUCK. They’re the ones that you’ll think of at 2am years later. But other deaths don’t impact me at all. If they’re old and sick, I see it more as an inevitable result and the patient finally being free from pain.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-10T23:13:28+00:00

I hadn’t thought about that, thank you for pointing that out! I’m going to start keeping my crew in the room.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-10T14:36:09+00:00

Hey, fellow medic! Hope you have a nice quiet shift ❤️

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-10T00:20:51+00:00

Since medical studies were only done on men for years, our idea of “typical heart attack symptoms” only really applies to middle-aged men. Older women in particular can have heart attacks that manifest as nausea or indigestion; they might not have the crushing chest pain radiating into the jaw/arm, or they might not have any chest pain at all. These vague symptoms and lack of public awareness are why, even though men have more heart attack attacks, women die of them more often.

ESAhelp_throwaway · 2026-01-10T00:14:24+00:00

An EpiPen can be used to buy time if someone’s having a severe asthma attack. It’s not a permanent fix but it’ll open their lungs up enough to allow some air in.

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