RECOVERING GRADY ADDICT

Out of sheer boredom for the slow nights... it can be really fun to fuck with dispatch. Most of them don't even realize it either. That's even funnier. Ambulance Driver had such an exchange last night apparently: Ambulance Driver: Radio Traffic From Last Night Dispatcher: "Borg Unit Four, you have an assault/rape at Masquerade, 1384 Waterfront. 23-year-old male at the rear entrance." Temporary Partner: "What's Masquerade?" Ambulance Driver: "Local gay bar. They have an awesome drag show on Wednesday nights." Temporary Partner [on radio]: "Dispatch, where did you say the patient was again?" Dispatcher: "Unit Four, your injury is going to be at the rear entrance." TP: "Ummmm, okay." Back in the old days, when Fulton County Communications handled Grady EMS's dispatching, one of our primary posts was in Buckhead. On Friday and Saturday nights we would move from our usual post at AFD Sta 21 over to the middle of the...

Be who you are. Say how you feel. Those who mind don't matter. Those who matter won't mind. I stole this from Dragon's blog today. Damn good piece of plagerism if I do say so myself.

Looks like the embedded player isn't working. Sorry! Yell at the folks over at EMS1.com! Try this link: EMS Blogger Kelly Grayson discusses The Airway Continuum at EMStock 2008. The Airway Continuum is a conceptual tool that provides EMS professionals a template for providing the appropriate level of airway management for a given patient. In this brief video clip, Kelly discusses with EMS1.com Director, Kris Kaull, the current paradigms in EMS airway management, and how current research is driving a shift in the was EMS providers view airway management. ORIGINAL POST LINK: Ambulance Driver: For All You EMS Types...

(because a foreign catch phrase makes me feel intellectually superior, damn it!) Recovering Grady Addict will remain a totally EMS related blog, which was it's original intended purpose. The new blog will hold all the pearls relating to the more personal side of life and the folks I choose to include in it. I have redirected my personal blogging to a new site, which those of you who know about, know about. Those of you who don't... it's for a good reason. I have just posted an archive of personal blogs (removed from here), a reference for those of you who have expressed interest in following me on my new blogging journey. There are those who have given drama a new definition, and for them this was fun for a while. But for me, it's just time to move on. Some of us are simply more upfront about it than others who would rather keep up appearances, play both sides of the chase, and deny to each side the truth about what they do with the other. As for the professed misery o...

a post from Ambulance Driver: "Toxic Partners" "...We can talk about what you should expect from me." "And what is that?" "I'm a pretty easy guy to work with," I continued. "I only have a couple of hard and fast rules, and I consider them inviolable. Rule #1 is, what happens on the truck stays on the truck." "Good," she agreed, "I have the same rule." "This isn't some Code of Silence I'm talking about, BP," I explained. "I'm talking about personal stuff. You're going to be spending more time with me than you do with your kids and your boyfriend. Anything going on in your personal life that I happen to overhear, I'm not going to repeat. I expect the same from you. What happens with company business and patient care is another story, which brings me to Rule #2..." "Which is?" "Partners back each other up. I'm not starry-eyed enough to believe that you follo...