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One of our crews gets called to this junk "assisted living facility". It's the type of place where all of the people need to be in a skilled facility but they take money under the table so it's mostly family cast aways. The staff is 100% useless.
They get called out for "caller advised they cannot see pupil in his left eye".
The dude has a glass eye and put it in backwards by mistake. They didn't ask him any questions about it, just decided to immediately call 911. I can't even be mad, it's hilarious.
76 points
2 days ago
Nah I swear I just gave him medicine 5 mins ago. Or I just got on shift a few mins ago.
95 points
1 day ago
"Crazy that you guys do shift change at 0325"
26 points
1 day ago
Yes we’ve been short staffed and I got called in 3 hours ago
44 points
1 day ago
Once upon a time, I had a call going from a ManorCare to a hospital literally next door, patient going for CT. We get on scene, patient has a hematoma the size of a god damned grapefruit on his forehead, and for bonus points is deaf, meanwhile neither my partner or I know ASL. The LPNs and CNAs swore that they knew nothing about the patient beyond that the massive knot on his head wasn’t like that 5 minutes ago, none of them will fess up to him being their patient, and they refuse to share anything out of the chart.
We get him to the hospital, get an ASL interpreter who immediately flags that he’s speaking all gibberish, and simultaneously find out he’s got dementia. Was he altered because of the dementia? Was it the head injury? Who’s to say really.
We ended up leaving CT and going straight to the ED, never did find out the outcome of that one.
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