Friday, January 25, 2008

Dr. Death is in....

Ok...aside from all of our home drama that has gone back and forth the world continued to spin, and as luck (or should I say bad luck) should have I had to work. At this point I have started looking for an easy button or a reset for January. Being the "new guy" at work and a "baby" medic (less than 1 year experience), I haven't gotten a label. Like "black cloud" "shit magnet" and the like. After the month I've had I've gone straight to being known as Dr. Death. Yesterday we had 2 separate fatal crashes, a cardiac arrest, and a gun shot wound to the head. The last of which we didn't run on but it still happened. I came in the night before my shift and pulled some chase medic time. In the 14 hours I was on station we had a cardiac arrest, and a deceased person at home. I had a streak of 4 cardiac arrests within 36 hours 2 weeks ago. With 2 separate ones in between. People are starting to fear coming to work with me. The ER staff says oh it's you today, when I walk into the ER. I now hate January. My partner last night told me I'm so tired of seeing people die. Uh...me too??? I mean come on. Someone this morning said that I sit at home trying to come up with new ways for us to find people, or hope for new and interesting ways to work codes. So if anyone has an easy button now would be a good time to let me know about it. 3 of the calls made TV though, so we've got that going for us.