20 Thoughts Only a Medic Can Understand
Working in emergency services is hard enough. Explaining your daily thoughts to someone outside the field is damn near impossible. You know you’re a medic, or destined to be, if you find any of these thoughts bouncing around your head.
1) You believe a little puke on the pants does not require a full uniform change.
2) You continually wonder whether you should do paperwork, shit, shower, sleep or eat.
3) You wonder if stifling an overwhelming urge to break into uncontrollable laughter in front of a patient could raise your blood pressure to a dangerous level.
4) You’ve tried explaining to a patient that uncontrolled laughter is a therapeutic tool to help alleviate the symptoms of the PMS that they called you for.
5) You enjoy the radio, but only when it’s talking to you, and you can respond.
6) You’ve brought people to the ER when they have a remote control stuck up their butt. You’ve thought — in the off-chance that an accident like this ever happens to you — you’d need to travel hundreds of miles to get where nobody knows you…but somebody will always know you.
7) You wake up to the ever-difficult decision: bed head or ugly baseball cap?
8) You wonder how you can get the nap-induced crease off your face during a seven minute response time.
9) You wonder why most people are attracted to pretty eyes, nice smiles or great hair. Your type has nice veins, good perfusion, and a strong pulse.
10) While on a crazy call you regularly ask yourself, do I really need the police?
Here’s the other half…
Michael Morse
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