1. When you’re off duty but hear a noise that soundsjust like your call tones.
3. Entertaining yourself while on standby.
4. When the tones drop, but no dispatch follows.
And for a moment, the world stands still.
5. Trying to find a pen on scene:
Didn’t you place at least five in your pocket this morning?
14. Catching someone with great veins when you’re off duty:
15. That feeling when you get through a shift without getting any bodily fluids on your uniform!
16. Fear of the open mic.
22. When the newbie on the crew says he or she, “Can’t wait to see some action!”
28. Walking on scene and wondering how you’re going to get the patient out of the room, let alone into the ambulance.
31. When you have an immobile patient on the 14th floor of a building – with no elevator.
32. Just about to take your boots off? Oh, OK:
34. When your patient tells the nurse a completely different personal history from what they told you on scene:
37. Trying to get a history from a patient that doesn’t speak the same language as you.
40. What you think you look like during a call and what you actually look like.
Sarah Karlan is the associate LGBT editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
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