Hope you don’t get a shift like the one I observed a couple of years ago, nothing happened! 12 hours in the front line ambulance and not one call all night.
Enjoy and lots of intersteing tales to tell afterwards, hopefully.
You’re so lucky, I’d love to go out observing! I am just off to the local ambulance station to look round it though, courtesy of my dad’s paramedic friend.
I arranged the observation day long before I knew the trainee was coming. Someone else trained her that day, but she’s back with me now. I haven’t scared her away yet!
i thought you might like to know that you may all get your wish that us General Public people will all be taught the difference between an emergency that requires some lovely blue flashing lights and a situation that could be dealt with by a couple of paracetamol and a good kip maybe, anyhoo on the bbc news this morning that is exactly what they were saying, maternataxi’s were mentioned too and they did say very clearly that if you go into labour it is not generally an emergency!! i kept expecting them to say: ‘and from Nee Naw. com we have Mr. Myers to explain exactly what denotes an emergency! any way sorry i have rambled on but i thought you would be pleased!!
just found your blog which i find a really good read and interesting, anyway well am going for the first part of the interview on friday to hopefully becoming a dispatcher!!!!
i just wondered how do you find working shifts and is it at all flexible?
Hi Mark, I’m a regular reader but rare commenter. While some of your posts deal with tragedy, others really make me laugh, so I wanted to direct you to this http://troubled-diva.com/labels/rednoseday.html and suggest that you submit a post from your archive in support of Comic Relief (which is next Friday so there isn’t much time). Also, if you read any UK bloggers who write funny posts, perhaps you could let them know about it. Thanks.
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Enjoy, and good luck! Bring back lots of tales!
Regards
Nick
http://nickhough.blogspot.com
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Nick tales of what, stub toes and colds.
Have fun on the road, and remember if it yellow and not in a flask or carton best not to drink it ;D
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
What differentiates your strangeness from the general strangeness found on stations?!!
Nicenurse
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
DaveM said: Nick tales of what, stub toes and colds.
A valid point, true….
But I’m trying to be optimistic that Mark gets something a bit more ‘interesting’!
Regards
Nick
http://nickhough.blogspot.com
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Mark
Hope you don’t get a shift like the one I observed a couple of years ago, nothing happened! 12 hours in the front line ambulance and not one call all night.
Enjoy and lots of intersteing tales to tell afterwards, hopefully.
Trooper Man
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Is this just a cunning plan to get out of mentoring the newbie?
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
the curse will hit.
Take a look at this though
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/patientrefusl/
think its good?!
February 24th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
You’re so lucky, I’d love to go out observing! I am just off to the local ambulance station to look round it though, courtesy of my dad’s paramedic friend.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 am
Are you that funny looking bloke who was peering through the window yesterday Mark?
SD
March 5th, 2007 at 5:48 am
dullahan_999 said,
“Is this just a cunning plan to get out of mentoring the newbie?”
Well, I was wondering the same kind of thing. I thought you were training someone Mark?
March 5th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I arranged the observation day long before I knew the trainee was coming. Someone else trained her that day, but she’s back with me now. I haven’t scared her away yet!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
i thought you might like to know that you may all get your wish that us General Public people will all be taught the difference between an emergency that requires some lovely blue flashing lights and a situation that could be dealt with by a couple of paracetamol and a good kip maybe, anyhoo on the bbc news this morning that is exactly what they were saying, maternataxi’s were mentioned too and they did say very clearly that if you go into labour it is not generally an emergency!! i kept expecting them to say: ‘and from Nee Naw. com we have Mr. Myers to explain exactly what denotes an emergency! any way sorry i have rambled on but i thought you would be pleased!!
March 7th, 2007 at 9:20 am
hi mark
just found your blog which i find a really good read and interesting, anyway well am going for the first part of the interview on friday to hopefully becoming a dispatcher!!!!
i just wondered how do you find working shifts and is it at all flexible?
thanks lisa
March 9th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Hi Mark, I’m a regular reader but rare commenter. While some of your posts deal with tragedy, others really make me laugh, so I wanted to direct you to this http://troubled-diva.com/labels/rednoseday.html and suggest that you submit a post from your archive in support of Comic Relief (which is next Friday so there isn’t much time). Also, if you read any UK bloggers who write funny posts, perhaps you could let them know about it. Thanks.