RuralJay

I've got a sorry bit of dispatch I need to bitch about, Caveats- 1) It's my first post. I've been lurking, take it with a grain of salt. 2) I'm a newbie. Dispatched all day on transfers that simply didn't qualify for ambulance necessity. Fine- new guy, ok, sure. End of shift is drawing near when we are advised to meet another crew at the local pump shop for some fuel before another transfer. (we don't have fuel cards for each rig, but that's a different bitch.) Turns out we need fuel because we are going to a site 1.5 hours away for a 93 mile transfer of a teenage psych pt who, according to my dispatch sheet, "will walk." Here's the dispatcher bitch: The presched transfer sheet was half filled out. No time of call received, no call back name, no number. no pt age, but "will walk" on the bottom. under medically necessary, a big "NO," standard on our forms, was circled. Directions scrawled on the back consisting of "L at bottom of ramp, L at lights, up hill, on L as crest the hill, funeral home too far." Not complete info, poor directions that would've sent up to the land where Beetlejuice was filmed, and this dispatcher gave me flak when I called in, collect for I have no cell phone by choice, to get a callback number. This guy's also our truck maintenance coordinator cause he likes the title-I've never seen much done. Can we have a maintenance guy bashing thread? Lesson learned- check your shit, don't trust whacker partners and lazy dispatchers. In the end, all was saved, and not much time lost. I'm just glad this big a f**kup didn't happen on an emergency call. ambulance taxi, at your service.