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What's a touque????? Think of a great big sock with the foot part cut off at the ankle, sew it closed and attach a red furry ball to the closed end at the very top. Then put it on your head and pull it firmly down, roll up the part covering your eyes so it doesn't cover them any more, or leave it down cut out eye and mouth holes and you have a balaclava.... touque,,, fron the Canadian word "toook" as in " I tooook the foot part off and made a hat"..

was once on the scene,and the patient a woman in her thirties was out of the car walking around, only c/o a sore neck. Crew did the whole nine yards on her, x-rays in emerg revealed a c-spine fracture. It is never a waste of time or equipment to treat your patient suspecting the worse. Hell of a lot of less writing to do, no court case, no inquest. I rest my case. rather be safe than sorry. :wink:

FORD (Found on road dead) ttcfap (Transported to closest first aid post) usually referred to an emerg with a lousy rep. NTHAD (Newbie thinks he's a doctor). MHD (mental health day) taking the day off just because. RRP (Rice Rocket Pilot) Driver of a Asian manufactured car.

Sorry, just to clarify, "crap spray" Bullshot, artifcial crap scent..

So, there we are having a supervisors breakfast meeting. On fellow is always there first having a coffee and reading the paper. Supervisor # two arrives, uses his spare key to enter the 1st supervisors vehicle, moves the drivers seat to the full forward position,and places a knotted surgical glove inflated with air and a single shot of Crap spray, on the seat track out of sight. After breakfast # 1 gets in his car and shouts an obscenity about short legged people and angrily jams the seat back thereby rupturing the glove and releasing the magic elixir aroma into the vehicle. # 1 immediately begins gagging bails out screaming oaths about supervisor # 2,supervisors # 3 & 4 are looking for a box of depends. In honour of my friend Deano,,, one of your best.

Read this one before, still get a kick out of it. The fact is that most of them are so true. Guess it's part of our national inferiority complex, after all we had a government that said we were all immigrants. Kind of confusing though, I was born here and can't figure out where the heck I immigrated from. Celine Dion, isn't really Canadian, she's actually a "FRENCH" Canadian, and every body knows that Quebecers claim to be non Canadian until it's time for the Canadian benefits. ooooops plitically incorrect,,,so what! By the By reason # 28, "Don't all Canadians speak French???? Nope. Took latin cause I didn't want to take French, they told me it was a dead language...Until I married an Italian... CHEERS :wink:

As a newbie to the site but an old dinosaur to the profession,(ex-RCAF medic & civie ems operations supervisor retired but still active), I wish you the best. I have read many of your posts and find them intelligent, informative, interesting, but more importantly, gut busting funny. You are appreciated. Be safe and if it don't look like sand, feel like sand or taste like sand, then your butt ain't deep enough in it.. Good luck.

Walrus, I think it is about time you reassessed your definition of harmless. If women called my wife claiming to be prostitutes I doubt very much if I or she would see any humour in that. If you worked for my service, you would not last long, your "practical jokes" and unprofessional behaviour would doom your career within weeks. This job is for serious professionals who respect their co-workers, you do not strike me as that type of person. I and my colleagues have a lot of fun on the job, none of it could ever be construed as mean spirited, bullying or in bad taste. This is the impression I received from reading your messages, this is not meant to belittle you it is simply the message you are sending out.

I hear a lot of medics whine about not being recognized as professionals, merely as "ambulance drivers. professionalism is not just a word, it is a state of mind. Professional is about creating an image. If a person wishes to watch porn hard or soft, it is their right to do so, but I don't feel that that "right" extends into the work place. It is not appropriate in ANY workplace. That being said, the issue of "R" rated material is harder to define. Disclaimers are run throughout the TV movies here where I live, sometimes to the point of annoyance, under our laws if one person finds the activity offensive, then the activity must stop. There is no discussion as to a persons "right" to watch it. Ladies and gentlemen, leave the porn at home, watch your action movies based on your own good common sense and the law of the land. Personally, most of the medics where I am don't have time to watch much t.v. while at work. It's all about respect

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Not on the vehicles but we had buttons and stickers made up for community events. People helping people." was a phrase used by our staff psychologist, ended up being "stolen" and put on police vehicles in Kitchener Ontario Canada.

It had been a hectic night. I attended with the crew to a very intoxicated woman, who had decided to end ie all. she had laid down on the train tracks and suffered a traumatic double amputation of both legs, she remained conscious until shortly before arrival at the emerg. The duty ortho surgon had performed my own acl repair three years earlier and we had become friends. As we were working at cleaning up the mess and tying off bleeders, I advised him of the history of the event noting that she had remained cognizant until shortly before arrival. I also advised that she was intent on suing the railroad company. He became very upset and voiced his concern about the stupidity of the justice system that would even consider hearing this matter in court. I then told him," Relax Doc she can't win, she hasn't got a leg to stand on." His reply was, " I should have known you were setting me up." :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :wink: