{"id":295,"date":"2010-01-18T03:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T11:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2013-06-14T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T03:45:13","slug":"five-interesting-things-you-learn-from-being-a-paramedic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/five-interesting-things-you-learn-from-being-a-paramedic\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Interesting Things You Learn From Being a Paramedic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Police<\/a>Today I found out<\/a> five interesting things you learn from being a paramedic.\u00a0 This article is a little change of pace from my normal articles, but I couldn’t resist posting it, as it is very interesting and entertaining.\u00a0 Here are five interesting things I learned from a paramedic working at a fire station.\u00a0 Below is written by said paramedic, namely my brother.<\/p>\n

#1-<\/strong> Opinion- A GI bleed (Gastrointestinal bleeding) is\u00a0the second worst smell that can come from a human body.\u00a0 I have personally smelled it\u00a0on the first floor\u00a0of a three story dorm style apartment building when the “bleeder” was on the second floor.\u00a0 Mind you, there were several doors, one elevater and about five hundred feet\u00a0of\u00a0total hallway between me and the person.<\/p>\n

#2-<\/strong> Opinion- The worst\u00a0smell that can come from a human body is a\u00a0bladder sac that ruptures from a three days past dead body, where the individual in question drank a twelve pack of beer before blowing their brains out.\u00a0 And just because I know your asking yourself\u00a0if there is a\u00a0difference between a three day dead bladder with beer and one without,\u00a0by an unfortunate twist of fate, I do happen to\u00a0know that, yes, there is a difference!<\/p>\n

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#3-<\/strong>(evidence based) Western medicine,\u00a0 like\u00a0most things in science, does not work by saying a specific set of symptoms must be a diagnosis of \u00a0x, y, or z.\u00a0 It works by taking everything that could cause those symptoms, proving that they absolutely could not be either x or y therefore you must\u00a0have a diagnosis of z.<\/p>\n

So you can then see that the potential for mis-diagnosis is directly related to how lazy (or not)\u00a0your Dr. is at\u00a0disproving x and y.\u00a0 Thus why Group Health\u00a0medical\u00a0(which used to and sometimes still does reward it’s\u00a0Dr.’s in the form of end of the year bonuses based on\u00a0how few tests they perform to make a specific Diagnosis.\u00a0 For example, they may only do an ekg to say you’re having a heart attack rather than an ekg and blood work) has the potential to be the best medical care, because they are the most efficient and a good percentage of the time also correct.\u00a0 But at the same time, they also have the potential to be the worst medical care because of the potential for error due to their lack of thoroughness!<\/p>\n

\"Trust<\/a>#4- <\/strong>Yes, a human being CAN grow into whatever they are laying\/sitting on if they do not get up and move. And\u00a0YES,\u00a0you will have to take the mattress with you in the ambulance so that\u00a0it can be\u00a0surgically removed from the body should they not want to die of an infection.<\/p>\n

-pro tip-<\/strong> Should you ever have to transport a human attached to a mattress, cut the mattress\u00a0from around the person BEFORE\u00a0they are in the vehicle.\u00a0 You will never get all of the stuffing out of your car!\u00a0 One year later, you will still be finding remnants!<\/p>\n

#5-<\/strong> Dr.’s routinely, (and by routinely I mean probably about 2-3% of the time, which by number of patients standards, is usually once or twice a week) will purposefully make a patient snort liquid cocaine to stop a nose bleed.<\/p>\n

Public service announcement-<\/strong> one of the\u00a0quickest ways to\u00a0get chronic nose bleeds…… snort cocaine.<\/p>\n

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