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Common Sense

Over the weekend we assisted a friend with providing medical cover at a country fair.  To be honest the weekend was thankfully pretty uneventful, however one patient stuck in my mind.  Not because of the severity of the patient, but more due to the stupidity of their parents!

The weekend was quite warm and had a few Vaso Vagals as you would expect.  I mother brought her child up top the first aid point in her arms.  She explained that her son had been feeling unwell fir the last few days and was feeling worse since being at the event – was there anything that we could do?  We suggested that he needed to see his GP and would benefit from some Calpol and some rest at home.

The mother explained that they had queued for nearly an hour and had been at the event less than an hour – Why tell us this?  Is it supposed to change our treatment?

I just wished that people used tis amazing thing called Common Sense, saw their GP when they need to (they even have a facility to see a Doctor at night and at weekends you know!) and instead of dragging their ill kids to events and expecting first aiders to be miracle workers along with turning water in to wine, they stayed at home and looked after them – what a novel idea!

I have read this article today and my faith in the general public has been restored!

We don’t do this job for the thanks or for the money (although id does help pay the bills) we do it because we genuanly want to help people!

Having said that, a quick thank you doesn’t cost anything and it does make a massive difference to us.  Its just a shame that it takes a man to have been deffibrilated 12 times for thanks to hit the BBC.

Lets hope my next post is about a good news story!

I have been watching lots of twitter accounts and forums recently an have seen way to many complaints about the Ambulance Service.  This particular article is what made me write this post – Family’s concern over 999 response to call the report states that not only the person that fell was not injured but also the fact that he did actually get an ambulance.  By definition the Ambulance Service attends EMERGENCY LIFE THREATENING CALLS.  I am sorry that this person fell and was on the floor for a while, however I am sure that if there was a resource that was not responding to an Emergency Call an Ambulance would have been sent quicker.

The Ambulance Service Triages its calls and sends resources to the highest priority calls first, surely this is a good system!

After all we can imagine the News Headlines if an Ambulance was sent to this gentleman when a child that was in Cardiac Arrest dies  around the corner because we were picking up someone off of the floor that wasn’t even injured!

RT: @ParamedicUK: ‘Stupid’ driver blocked ambulance – http://paramedic.org.uk/kU #paramedic

watching the glory hunting fly boys on Medic One – BBC 1

1100 words to go – there must be someone else out there that wants to write about Patient Assessment related to Heart Failure….

has to finish an essay by Thursday morning, only 1250 words to go!!

RT: @bbchealth: Swine flu does not seem to be spreading in a sustained way outside North America http://tinyurl.com/cp5mda

RT: @bbchealth: An NHS worker has swine flu without having visited Mexico. http://tinyurl.com/ct4oke

@Reynolds isnt this what we do anyway? lol