Personal Submission – 2010 Thanks for this embarassing contribution from an anonymous friend … I was attempting to clean the filters of my range-hood. After previous attempts, it was suggested by a friend that spraying the filters with degreaser was a great, easy way to get them clean. I thought this was a brilliant idea so I...
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Personal Submission – 2010  Thanks for a fellow paramedic for this contribution … My partner and I were called to a man with burns to his lower extremities following a petrol fire. On arrival we discovered the man had burns to his legs from the groin down.
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Personal Submission – 2010  I’m a paramedic. We get called to all sorts of jobs; this is one of my favorite stories from the work that I do.   One weekend whilst on duty, we were called to attend to a 15 year old girl, left in charge of her younger sister when their parents had gone away...
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Personal Submission – 2010  Thank heavens for pain relief and thanks to the contributor for this wonderful story, a lesson in itself … One of the graduate nurses at the hospital I work in was called to shower a 60 year old man who had just recently had surgery.
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Personal Submission – 2010  My paramedic partner and I were called to a house one night to an unconscious female who had possibly overdosed on prescription medications. We arrived to find a rather ’large’ girl laying on the floor of the bathroom, non-responsive but still breathing. She had been at a nightclub drinking and had taken...
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Personal Submission – 2010  During a routine interhospital transfer with doctor and nurse escort, my fellow paramedic and I were trading funny stories with the hospital crew. The doctor described a patient who had been brought in by ambulance with an orange stuck in his rectum.
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Personal Submission – 2009 Another three for the price of one Woftam story … priceless! We were heading back to our ambulance depot one afternoon and as we crossed over the freeway, we noticed a man lying in tall grass on the side of the road. Puzzled as to why he was laying there, we pulled...
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Personal Submission – 2010 Whilst on a summer night shift several years ago, I walked through the emergency department of a metropolitan hospital. As I passed by a triage room, I noticed a male patient laying on a bed, loudly groaning and putting on quite a show.  I was somewhat bemused at this spectacle and...
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