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Scenes from the Ambulance: Oopsy-Daisy!
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Scenes from the Ambulance. A blog about life on the ambulance in Oakland CA. Tuesday, July 6, 2010. It was well past midnight on a slow night on the west side of Oakland. Sometimes the city sleeps, but not for long. More like cat-naps. My partner and I were enjoying the fact that there was not much to do. We were killing the time by watching some nursing school lecture videos. I think it was one on blood chemistry. Really fascinating stuff, until the peace of the night was interrupted by a call. I guess ...
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Scenes from the Ambulance: Party Boy
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Scenes from the Ambulance. A blog about life on the ambulance in Oakland CA. Monday, January 10, 2011. There is one other seasonal factor that is responsible for bringing Party Boy, the subject of this story, into my life. Typically around the holidays, people tend to overindulge in the intoxicant of their choice, be it alcohol, narcotics, or whatever else they can get their hands on. 8220;What’s the deal? 8220;Great”. I said not meaning it at all. I walked down the walk with the firefighter and she and ...
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Scenes from the Ambulance: January 2010
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Scenes from the Ambulance. A blog about life on the ambulance in Oakland CA. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. The call came in as “Man Down”. It was the first one of the day, we had barely finished logging in from the parking lot and it was only 6:08 in the morning. It was chilly and grey as a thick blanket of fog sat over Oakland and it’s immediate suburbs. Quite often we arrive and the “man” is not only no longer down, but no longer anywhere to be found. Today I was in “the hot seat.”. 8220;Copy man down, ...
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Scenes from the Ambulance: March 2010
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Scenes from the Ambulance. A blog about life on the ambulance in Oakland CA. Saturday, March 27, 2010. It was the first night without my regular partner in a while. She had transferred over to critical care transport on the day shift leaving me with what we affectionately call “mystery meat”. Mystery meat is when you don’t know who your partner is going to be. It is a bit of a gamble really. If you roll a seven you get a great partner who knows their job and can hold a conversation. It was a shunt bleed.
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Scenes from the Ambulance: The Thin Ice of My Life
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Scenes from the Ambulance. A blog about life on the ambulance in Oakland CA. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. The Thin Ice of My Life. The final knot in the knurled up ball of muck that morning commute had become came fast and furiously in the form of hail. Ice fell from the sky in various sizes from those rivaling golf balls down to minute pebbles. The roadway was coated and in California, nobody adjusts driving speed for anything, least of all weather; an accident was imminent. 8220;Five-oh-Six.”. The hail ...
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Scenes from the Ambulance: November 2010
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Scenes from the Ambulance. A blog about life on the ambulance in Oakland CA. Monday, November 29, 2010. Go with your gut! It was the first call of the day on the week of Thanksgiving. It was cool and blustery outside, raining on and off. The leaves, which had made their final curtain call, were ablaze in yellow, orange, and red; contrasting the dull, gray, overcast skies that threatened us ominously. Besides, our seats were already wet from our clothing, so we would have to deal with it. It was raining h...
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Scenes from the Ambulance: OG and some unusual math
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Scenes from the Ambulance. A blog about life on the ambulance in Oakland CA. Tuesday, August 16, 2011. OG and some unusual math. It was a soggy, rainy day on the east side of Oakland in the killing fields; a square that is bordered by Seminary to the north, 106th Ave. to the south, MacArthur Blvd. to the east and 880 to the west. Most of the shooting, stabbing and other various gang activities that Oakland is famous for take place in this neatly packaged little slice of hell. Once the rig stopped I said ...
