Paramedic(s)
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Paramedics - 1) can save your life. Medically trained personnel, they are schooled in the art of rapid intervention to save someones life. Paramedics can utilize numerous techniques to stop bleeding, heart-attacks (the #1 killer in the US), shock, death, severe hangovers and any number of things that can go wrong with the human body. They are not doctors though.
Paramedics are a rare breed because they are fascinated with the morbid and macabre. Unlike doctors and nurses, they are not ever concerned with anyone unless that someone is quite near deaths door. Whereas doctors often follow-up on the progress of their patients, paramedics normally do not care about you after they have stopped you from dying - unless of course you can get them into the newpaper, on television, or into your rich uncle's will.
They often dwell in dingy basements of local town-halls, eating stale pizza at all hours of the night or day. Paramedics are hardly startled by anything because they are constantly interrupted by loud sirens and bright lights to let them know that they have to go and save someone's life. If you call a paramedic, do not be surprised by his/her appearance. They may approach you carrying massive bags of electrical equipment and sharp looking metallic instruments, looking dissheveled and tired. (The sight of which might even startle the patient into a heart attack, which is esactly what the paramedics would rather deal with; because dead people don't talk!)
A medic might arrive at your location in a varying array of vehicles including motorcycles, cars, ambulances, fire trucks, boats and helicoptors. The latter of which is the most exciting to be transported away in; except that it usually means that you will not enjoy the ride because you are near death, unless of course you are the paramedic.
A paramedic can give you medication and narcotics through intravenous access as well as straight into your heart with long needles. Some of these narcotics will send the recipient into a comfortable and ethereal state, from which they would rather not return. Other drugs will start/stop the heart, and in some cases permanently destroy one's brain.
Most modern societies have paramedics, if they have the money to pay them.
paramedics - 2) An American television show, listed as high drama, that follows along with paramedics on ambulance calls.
Paramedics are a rare breed because they are fascinated with the morbid and macabre. Unlike doctors and nurses, they are not ever concerned with anyone unless that someone is quite near deaths door. Whereas doctors often follow-up on the progress of their patients, paramedics normally do not care about you after they have stopped you from dying - unless of course you can get them into the newpaper, on television, or into your rich uncle's will.
They often dwell in dingy basements of local town-halls, eating stale pizza at all hours of the night or day. Paramedics are hardly startled by anything because they are constantly interrupted by loud sirens and bright lights to let them know that they have to go and save someone's life. If you call a paramedic, do not be surprised by his/her appearance. They may approach you carrying massive bags of electrical equipment and sharp looking metallic instruments, looking dissheveled and tired. (The sight of which might even startle the patient into a heart attack, which is esactly what the paramedics would rather deal with; because dead people don't talk!)
A medic might arrive at your location in a varying array of vehicles including motorcycles, cars, ambulances, fire trucks, boats and helicoptors. The latter of which is the most exciting to be transported away in; except that it usually means that you will not enjoy the ride because you are near death, unless of course you are the paramedic.
A paramedic can give you medication and narcotics through intravenous access as well as straight into your heart with long needles. Some of these narcotics will send the recipient into a comfortable and ethereal state, from which they would rather not return. Other drugs will start/stop the heart, and in some cases permanently destroy one's brain.
Most modern societies have paramedics, if they have the money to pay them.
paramedics - 2) An American television show, listed as high drama, that follows along with paramedics on ambulance calls.
