I saw a lovely patient this week, he was a very shy young man who didn’t speak much English but sadly he had just been mugged. There were three of them and only one of him – so violence really wasn’t necessary, but still they punched him in the face a number of times as…
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Tags: 999, Ambulance, attacked, broken jaw, good samaritan, injury, max fax, mobile phone, mugging, Paramedic, Police, violence, wider NHS -
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December 9, 2011 by
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This website was launched on Thursday December 4th, 2008, with my initial post, Snapshots. As a Birthday celebration I asked Jon (my website guy) to pull some facts and figures out of the analytics for the website. Here’s what he came up with. Aside from the homepage, the most popular page on the site is…
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Tags: birthday, Books, ECPs, elastic band, Italy, Knife crime, Paramedic, Paramedic Prescribing, Police, Student Paramedic, Trends, UNCUT project -
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I was telling my friends and family about a call I went to recently. It involved a toddler hit by a car with possible life changing or life threatening injuries. My colleagues and I were busy – we had a child screaming with a head injury and the pain of numerous broken bones needing our…
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Tags: accident, air ambulance, Ambulance, car crash TV, children, common sense, HEMS, injury, mobile phone cameras, Paramedic, Police, RTC, television and the media, Trauma, Trends -
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I’d put my name down to work at the Notting Hill Carnival a few weeks ago, well before the London riots hit the news. I usually enjoy working at these big events (you may know that I have also worked at the London Triathlon, the London Marathon and in the centre of town on New…
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Once again I got roped in to taking part in a local Junior Citizens Scheme. Well if I’m honest I actually offered as it’s a lot easier than a tough day on the road as far as I’m concerned and I really enjoyed last time. There is also an abundance of cake and biscuits available…
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Coincidentally, and just in time for my birthday (It was my 21st birthday, just in case you were wondering but were too polite to ask) my very own signed copy of ‘Police, Crime and 999’ by John Donoghue arrived in the post this week. This is the sort of thing that happens in my life…
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We’ve had some gorgeous spring weather lately and one particularly sunny late afternoon I was called to someone reported as being ‘unconscious’ by passers-by. When I arrived there was a small crowd gathered around a man who was lying flat out on the pavement of a very busy road. Well as you know I’m not…
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Tags: Ambulance, cannabis, collapse, funny, illicit drugs, illness, Paramedic, Police, sniffer dog, unconscious, weird things patients say, wider NHS -
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On a stunning early spring day recently, I was called by the police to a quiet street where a young man had been injured. The details were given as ’19 year old male, hurt himself on a fence.’ I was only a couple of minutes away in my car so I got there quickly and…
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Deciding to challenge my Italian language skills beyond their limits and seeing the opportunity for a little jaunt to my favourite country in with the deal, I signed up to attend a presentation on safety on the road in Italy. Those who have passed a holiday in a city in Italy will recall the chaos of…
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Tags: 999, Ambulance, fatal crash, Fire Brigade, injury, Italy, Paramedic, Police, public education, road deaths, RTC, Safe Drive Stay Alive, texting while driving, Trauma, Trends, wider NHS, Young people -
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I had a young student paramedic out observing with me this week. With her ‘gateway’ exam coming up soon Jane wanted to spend the day with an ECP to observe physical assessment techniques. Our first patient was a young man who had fallen almost 3 metres while working on a construction site. It was raining…
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Tags: Ambulance, cannulation, collapse, construction site, Elderly, funny, Gateway assessment, illness, injury, Paramedic, Physical Assessment, Police, pressure sores, Trauma -
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