stony karkSitting at your desk today, in your cosy or shitty office, you hear sirens and see an ambulance whip down the street. For a brief moment you stop thinking about the quarterly business numbers in front of you and wonder “What that’s like?”. As a recovering cubicle dweller now in the final/practical portion of paramedic school, let me tell you, it’s pretty fuckin wild.
stony karkFor me (so far) it’s the best combination of stimuli. You can focus solely on one thing (the patient) for the whole call. You have magic potions like naloxone and D50W which can turn someone who looks a like a corpse back to a living, screaming human in like 2 minutes. You’re useful even if there’s nothing you can do. It’s obvs not all good things, but if you have the right attitude and support network it can be a really fulfilling career.
stony karkThe medic who told my class, hauntingly, that if we didn’t cry on practicum there was something wrong with us was right. I have. You don’t know how certain calls will affect you until they happen. But, emotions aren’t weakness (ok maybe anger is). It means you care. No matter what you do in life, never apologize for giving a shit.
McNadoMD@aapis@mastodon.world if you don’t cry in emergency services, you aren’t doing a good job and are going to develop a serious substance use problem or other bad coping mechanism. The pain is going to happen. Let it out.
stony kark@mcnado@mstdn.social that’s my attitude 👍
I hope I never lose it