It was a beautiful summer day, sunny with clear skies and warm gentle breeze, blowing through the open window. Shelly and I were sitting in the ambulance, over in Telopea. I was busy doing my case sheet from the last …
As was the practice, for probationary ambulance officers, we were moved around to different training officers approximately every 10 – 12 weeks.
It was quite a cool Autumn morning, when Ollie and I were tasked to respond to someonewith a laceration, little did we envisage what that would entail.Ollie pulled the vehicle up to the curb. It was your average timber and …
Like so many things in the job, you get exposed to many ways of other people doing various things. As you observe, or get shown how to and why, people do things in articular ways in the job, you get …
It is a true recount, and will often be created with a very black sense of humour behind it. It is often considered within the emergency services and health culture, that the very dark sense of humour that most of us develop.
Ollie and I were responded to a job, early on the Saturday morning, being my first real casualty incident. We were called to a woman collapsed at the back of a house in Auburn, the patient wasconscious and breathing, post …