maverick56

Really? I'd rather take someone to the ER, than to the funeral home, strip them naked, photograph them, jab cardiac needles into their thighs and hope to hit the femoral artery. Maybe it's just me.

Just try and remember Mav that though it can be irritating, that that is another symptom. Just like being drunk, or disoriented, or traumatized those calls for help need to be considered as a pathology.

And I truly believe that some of the most good that I've done as a medic has been on these types of patients.

I know, and I remind myself on the way to each one that this could be the one that's serious. But it's the "CMH leeches" that get awfully tiresome - the people who are in the ED over and over for the with same attention and/or drug-seeking stories that grind on me. The people who are truly suicidal, but are whiny as hell about life. No, 2c4, I definitely wouldn't rather pick up a body, but I would rather give my time to patients who really want to be helped. Sorry if it s...