First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead tower
block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.

She got there to find it was accidental. A mains powered smoke alarm had
been beeping and the victim decided to cut the cable feeding it. It was
live and he used metal scissors!

The electric shock caused him to react violently and he stabbed himself in
the leg with the scissors - twice!



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07850 597257

On 2007-05-24 21:33:41 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead tower
block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.

She got there to find it was accidental. A mains powered smoke alarm had
been beeping and the victim decided to cut the cable feeding it. It was
live and he used metal scissors!

The electric shock caused him to react violently and he stabbed himself in
the leg with the scissors - twice!


Has she had any attendances involving vacuum cleaner hoses
unfortunately attached?

First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead tower
block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.

Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Colin Wilson wrote:
First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.

Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued in.


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07850 597257

The Medway Handyman wrote:

The electric shock caused him to react violently and he stabbed himself in
the leg with the scissors - twice!

Somehow it is the "twice" that makes it for me! LOL.

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Rumm writes
The Medway Handyman wrote:

The electric shock caused him to react violently and he stabbed
himself in the leg with the scissors - twice!

Somehow it is the "twice" that makes it for me! LOL.

Easy ...

once on the positive cycle, one on the negative one


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raden wrote:

Somehow it is the "twice" that makes it for me! LOL.

Easy ...

once on the positive cycle, one on the negative one

Lucky he did not end up like a teabag then!

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The Medway Handyman wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote:
First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.
Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued in.

Of course, had this been a fatality it would have been caused by the
'fixed wiring' in the property which would have just gone to show how
important Part P is for the wellbeing of the population...

David

Colin Wilson wrote:



Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?


I've always thought that anything which was only 'nearly' a miss was
actually a hit.

Shouldn't it be a near hit??


R ;-)

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote:
First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.
Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued in.



The verb "to blue" is interesting

On 24 May, 23:26, Owain wrote:
Andy Hall wrote:

Has she had any attendances involving vacuum cleaner hoses unfortunately
attached?

Or Hoover Constellations?

Owain

Have you not heard of the BMJ article?
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?...ver_Duste tte


NT

On 2007-05-25 12:46:40 +0100, Owain said:

Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued in.
The verb "to blue" is interesting

Presumably if you turn blue, you get blued.

Owain

Blues and twos I believe it's called.

I still wonder how they sell any icecreams at that speed though.

In message , Andy Hall writes
On 2007-05-25 12:46:40 +0100, Owain said:

Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued in.
The verb "to blue" is interesting
Presumably if you turn blue, you get blued.
Owain

Blues and twos I believe it's called.

I still wonder how they sell any icecreams at that speed though.


You are an Eric Morecambe fan and I claim my £5. It is still funny,
though.
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On 2007-05-25 17:27:43 +0100, Peter Twydell said:

In message , Andy Hall writes
On 2007-05-25 12:46:40 +0100, Owain said:

Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued in.
The verb "to blue" is interesting
Presumably if you turn blue, you get blued.
Owain

Blues and twos I believe it's called.

I still wonder how they sell any icecreams at that speed though.


You are an Eric Morecambe fan and I claim my £5. It is still funny, though.

You've Earned it.....

I still laugh when I see that sketch - it demonstrates how timing is
everything.

Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote:
First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.
Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued
in.

The verb "to blue" is interesting

It's taken me ages to learn 'ambulance talk'. Typically my daughter will
arrive home & say something like "had a 53YOM with DIB so we bagged him,
got him in the truck & blued him in. Rest of the shift was white work".
London ambulance exists on acronyms & abbreviations.

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing, so we
used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to hospital using
blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was patient transfers.

It's a world on its own.


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01634 717930
07850 597257

On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:34:35 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
mused:

Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote:
First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.
Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued
in.

The verb "to blue" is interesting

It's taken me ages to learn 'ambulance talk'. Typically my daughter will
arrive home & say something like "had a 53YOM with DIB so we bagged him,
got him in the truck & blued him in. Rest of the shift was white work".
London ambulance exists on acronyms & abbreviations.

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing, so we
used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to hospital using
blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was patient transfers.

Ah, I took 'bagged' as being stuffed in a black bag ready to be
dragged down the morgue.
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On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:34:35 +0100, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing, so we
used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to hospital using
blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was patient transfers.

I'd check the accuracy of "blued him in" meaning the use of lights *&*
sirens. Last I heard they rarely use sirens when they have some one on
board as it scares the crap out 'em: "****, sirens, I must be in a
*REALLY* bad way".

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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:34:35 +0100, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing,
so we used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to
hospital using blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was
patient transfers.

I'd check the accuracy of "blued him in" meaning the use of lights *&*
sirens. Last I heard they rarely use sirens when they have some one on
board as it scares the crap out 'em: "****, sirens, I must be in a
*REALLY* bad way".

Quite right. Sirens are standard proceedure with cat a & b red calls.
Normal 'nee nah' unless they approach a hazzard like traffic signals,
roundabouts - in which case they use the 'machine gun' repeater. With a
cat a or b red call the patient is usualy completely out of it. They use
blues only for lesser emergency's.


--
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The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:34:35 +0100, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing,
so we used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to
hospital using blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was
patient transfers.
I'd check the accuracy of "blued him in" meaning the use of lights *&*
sirens. Last I heard they rarely use sirens when they have some one on
board as it scares the crap out 'em: "****, sirens, I must be in a
*REALLY* bad way".

Quite right. Sirens are standard proceedure with cat a & b red calls.
Normal 'nee nah' unless they approach a hazzard like traffic signals,
roundabouts - in which case they use the 'machine gun' repeater. With a
cat a or b red call the patient is usualy completely out of it. They use
blues only for lesser emergency's.

We live on a main road which is the regular route to the local
hospital... typically the sirens wail as they travel out of town, ie on
their way to the incident; and are silent on the return when the punter
is on board.

David

"Lobster" wrote in message
...

We live on a main road which is the regular route to the local hospital...
typically the sirens wail as they travel out of town, ie on their way to
the incident; and are silent on the return when the punter is on board.

That sounds like your ambulance service needs a shake up.
The very idea that ambulances need to drive out and then back means they are
stationed in the wrong place.
If it happens a lot the something needs to be done to protect the patients.

In message , Lobster
writes
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:34:35 +0100, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing,
so we used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to
hospital using blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was
patient transfers.
I'd check the accuracy of "blued him in" meaning the use of lights *&*
sirens. Last I heard they rarely use sirens when they have some one on
board as it scares the crap out 'em: "****, sirens, I must be in a
*REALLY* bad way".
Quite right. Sirens are standard proceedure with cat a & b red
calls. Normal 'nee nah' unless they approach a hazzard like traffic
signals, roundabouts - in which case they use the 'machine gun'
repeater. With a cat a or b red call the patient is usualy
completely out of it. They use blues only for lesser emergency's.

We live on a main road which is the regular route to the local
hospital... typically the sirens wail as they travel out of town, ie on
their way to the incident; and are silent on the return when the punter
is on board.

Should that not be "stakeholder" in NuLabia speak ?

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In message , "dennis@home"
writes

"Lobster" wrote in message
...

We live on a main road which is the regular route to the local hospital...
typically the sirens wail as they travel out of town, ie on their way to
the incident; and are silent on the return when the punter is on board.

That sounds like your ambulance service needs a shake up.
The very idea that ambulances need to drive out and then back means they are
stationed in the wrong place.
If it happens a lot the something needs to be done to protect the patients.


What are you prattling on about now ?

There has to be a serious compelling reason to move an ambulance
station. You only hear the ones going in your direction, not those going
the other way


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In message , Huge
writes
On 2007-05-25, The Medway Handyman wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote:
First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.
Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued
in.

The verb "to blue" is interesting

It's taken me ages to learn 'ambulance talk'. Typically my daughter will
arrive home & say something like "had a 53YOM with DIB so we bagged him,
got him in the truck & blued him in. Rest of the shift was white work".
London ambulance exists on acronyms & abbreviations.

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing, so we
used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to hospital using
blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was patient transfers.

It's a world on its own.

"Bagged" is well known to anyone who watches ER, 'cos they say it, too.


'Bag him' and 'central line' are about the only comprehensible words in
the programme. 90% of the medical jargon and a lot of the ordinary
conversation is either mumbled or spoken so fast I can't understand it.
SWMBO listens using headphones, but says it doesn't help all that much.
--
Peter

Ying tong iddle-i po!

raden wrote:

There has to be a serious compelling reason to move an ambulance
station. You only hear the ones going in your direction, not those
going the other way

Ambulances are not deployed at ambulance stations. Stations act simply as a
base where the ambulance is cleaned and re stocked with supplies and the
crews can leave their personal stuff.

When they go 'green' from their first job they wait 'on call' at strategic
points - you will often see ambulances on road bridges, in supermarket car
parks etc - they rarely return to the station until the end of the shift.

My daughter is stationed at Bexlyheath, but gets jabs as far away as Hendon.
If for example they have to take a patient to a specialist hospital in E
London, then can then be the nearest 'green' vehicle to a call just over the
border in N London and this leapfrogging carries on during busy periods.

And if they get a red call 5 mins before the shift ends and they are the
nearest green ambulance - they attend.


--
Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

Peter Twydell wrote:
In message , Huge
writes
On 2007-05-25, The Medway Handyman
wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote:
First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.
Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued
in.

The verb "to blue" is interesting

It's taken me ages to learn 'ambulance talk'. Typically my daughter
will
arrive home & say something like "had a 53YOM with DIB so we bagged
him,
got him in the truck & blued him in. Rest of the shift was white work".
London ambulance exists on acronyms & abbreviations.

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing, so we
used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to hospital using
blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was patient transfers.

It's a world on its own.

"Bagged" is well known to anyone who watches ER, 'cos they say it, too.


'Bag him' and 'central line' are about the only comprehensible words in
the programme. 90% of the medical jargon and a lot of the ordinary
conversation is either mumbled or spoken so fast I can't understand it.
SWMBO listens using headphones, but says it doesn't help all that much.

What about "CBC, Chem-7 - STAT!!!!"

David

On Sat, 26 May 2007 17:32:16 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
mused:

raden wrote:

There has to be a serious compelling reason to move an ambulance
station. You only hear the ones going in your direction, not those
going the other way

Ambulances are not deployed at ambulance stations. Stations act simply as a
base where the ambulance is cleaned and re stocked with supplies and the
crews can leave their personal stuff.

When they go 'green' from their first job they wait 'on call' at strategic
points - you will often see ambulances on road bridges, in supermarket car
parks etc - they rarely return to the station until the end of the shift.

My daughter is stationed at Bexlyheath, but gets jabs as far away as Hendon.
If for example they have to take a patient to a specialist hospital in E
London, then can then be the nearest 'green' vehicle to a call just over the
border in N London and this leapfrogging carries on during busy periods.

And if they get a red call 5 mins before the shift ends and they are the
nearest green ambulance - they attend.

My head hurts now.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:32:16 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Ambulances are not deployed at ambulance stations. Stations act simply as a
base where the ambulance is cleaned and re stocked with supplies and the
crews can leave their personal stuff.

Yes and no. Round here, they *are* deployed from the ambulance station,
in the main (we are 800 yards from the station, so we hear...and see!)

I have seen the occasional one stationed about 5 miles away at a useful
junction halyway between here and Margate/Ramsgate...it can get to those
two, and Canterbury, in about equal time.

I guess in our case the ambulance station is well situated with good
connections to most places.
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In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:32:16 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Ambulances are not deployed at ambulance stations. Stations act simply as a
base where the ambulance is cleaned and re stocked with supplies and the
crews can leave their personal stuff.

Yes and no. Round here, they *are* deployed from the ambulance station,
in the main (we are 800 yards from the station, so we hear...and see!)


Same here (well, not the same station ). There are plenty dispatched from
the station in Folkestone - usually we will see the fast response car head
off closely followed by an ambulance.

We are a minute from the M20, the channel tunnel terminal and a couple of mins
from Folkestone town centre though so I guess it's a pretty good location.

Saying that, there is often one parked up on the motorway bridge at hythe
although that might have something to do with the decent burger van that
parks there :-)

Darren

On Sat, 26 May 2007 17:37:50 +0100, Lurch wrote:

My head hurts now

Quick call an ambulance!

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On 2007-05-26 20:23:11 +0100, (dmc) said:

In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:32:16 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Ambulances are not deployed at ambulance stations. Stations act simply as a
base where the ambulance is cleaned and re stocked with supplies and the
crews can leave their personal stuff.

Yes and no. Round here, they *are* deployed from the ambulance station,
in the main (we are 800 yards from the station, so we hear...and see!)


Same here (well, not the same station ). There are plenty dispatched from
the station in Folkestone - usually we will see the fast response car head
off closely followed by an ambulance.

We are a minute from the M20, the channel tunnel terminal and a couple of mins
from Folkestone town centre though so I guess it's a pretty good location.

Saying that, there is often one parked up on the motorway bridge at hythe
although that might have something to do with the decent burger van that
parks there :-)

Darren

I thought it was doughnuts that attract members of the emergency services.

dmc wrote:
Bob Eager wrote:
Yes and no. Round here, they *are* deployed from the ambulance
station, in the main (we are 800 yards from the station, so we
hear...and see!)

Same here (well, not the same station ). There are plenty
dispatched from the station in Folkestone - usually we will see the
fast response car head off closely followed by an ambulance.

Sorry, daughter works for London Ambulance Service, not Kent Ambulance
Service. Different circumstances in London.

The ambulance service isn't national, it's regional despite being an NHS
service.


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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

Huge wrote:
On 2007-05-25, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Stuart Noble wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

Colin Wilson wrote:

First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.

Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued
in.

The verb "to blue" is interesting

It's taken me ages to learn 'ambulance talk'. Typically my daughter will
arrive home & say something like "had a 53YOM with DIB so we bagged him,
got him in the truck & blued him in. Rest of the shift was white work".
London ambulance exists on acronyms & abbreviations.

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing, so we
used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to hospital using
blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was patient transfers.

It's a world on its own.


"Bagged" is well known to anyone who watches ER, 'cos they say it, too.

The police also use the term bag him, or he has been bagged in respect
of the breathaliser.

Dave

The Medway Handyman wrote:

The ambulance service isn't national, it's regional despite being an NHS
service.

The NHS "service" itself is regional (and variable). Sometimes it is
first rate, others better than nothing, and sometimes it will kill you.
Trouble is knowing in advance which services in which places fall into
which category.

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dmc wrote:

In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:32:16 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Ambulances are not deployed at ambulance stations. Stations act simply
as a base where the ambulance is cleaned and re stocked with supplies
and the crews can leave their personal stuff.

Yes and no. Round here, they *are* deployed from the ambulance station,
in the main (we are 800 yards from the station, so we hear...and see!)


Same here (well, not the same station ). There are plenty dispatched from
the station in Folkestone - usually we will see the fast response car head
off closely followed by an ambulance.

We are a minute from the M20, the channel tunnel terminal and a couple of mins
from Folkestone town centre though so I guess it's a pretty good location.

So they speak French then? ;-)

Peter
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In message , Lurch
writes
On Sat, 26 May 2007 17:32:16 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
mused:

raden wrote:

There has to be a serious compelling reason to move an ambulance
station. You only hear the ones going in your direction, not those
going the other way

Ambulances are not deployed at ambulance stations. Stations act simply as a
base where the ambulance is cleaned and re stocked with supplies and the
crews can leave their personal stuff.

When they go 'green' from their first job they wait 'on call' at strategic
points - you will often see ambulances on road bridges, in supermarket car
parks etc - they rarely return to the station until the end of the shift.

My daughter is stationed at Bexlyheath, but gets jabs as far away as Hendon.
If for example they have to take a patient to a specialist hospital in E
London, then can then be the nearest 'green' vehicle to a call just over the
border in N London and this leapfrogging carries on during busy periods.

And if they get a red call 5 mins before the shift ends and they are the
nearest green ambulance - they attend.

My head hurts now.


That's Bank's beer, that is


--
geoff

Huge wrote:
On 2007-05-26, Lobster wrote:
Peter Twydell wrote:
In message , Huge
writes
On 2007-05-25, The Medway Handyman
wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote:
First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead
tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.
Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?
Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued
in.
The verb "to blue" is interesting
It's taken me ages to learn 'ambulance talk'. Typically my daughter
will
arrive home & say something like "had a 53YOM with DIB so we bagged
him,
got him in the truck & blued him in. Rest of the shift was white work".
London ambulance exists on acronyms & abbreviations.

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing, so we
used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to hospital using
blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was patient transfers.

It's a world on its own.
"Bagged" is well known to anyone who watches ER, 'cos they say it, too.


'Bag him' and 'central line' are about the only comprehensible words in
the programme. 90% of the medical jargon and a lot of the ordinary
conversation is either mumbled or spoken so fast I can't understand it.
SWMBO listens using headphones, but says it doesn't help all that much.
What about "CBC, Chem-7 - STAT!!!!"

That's easy - CBC is a "complete blood count", and "stat" is an abbreviation for
"statinum" meaning "now" or "immediately" in Latin. (Of course...)

"chem 7" I had to look up. (More blood tests).

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Word...n_medical.html


Tsk - yes I knew that ;-) - was just giving an example of something
shouted out with sufficient frequency and clarity for the OP presumably
to be able to discern!

David

On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:10:52 GMT, raden mused:

In message , Lurch
writes
On Sat, 26 May 2007 17:32:16 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
mused:

raden wrote:

There has to be a serious compelling reason to move an ambulance
station. You only hear the ones going in your direction, not those
going the other way

Ambulances are not deployed at ambulance stations. Stations act simply as a
base where the ambulance is cleaned and re stocked with supplies and the
crews can leave their personal stuff.

When they go 'green' from their first job they wait 'on call' at strategic
points - you will often see ambulances on road bridges, in supermarket car
parks etc - they rarely return to the station until the end of the shift.

My daughter is stationed at Bexlyheath, but gets jabs as far away as Hendon.
If for example they have to take a patient to a specialist hospital in E
London, then can then be the nearest 'green' vehicle to a call just over the
border in N London and this leapfrogging carries on during busy periods.

And if they get a red call 5 mins before the shift ends and they are the
nearest green ambulance - they attend.

My head hurts now.


That's Bank's beer, that is

Ah, that's what happened!
--
Regards,
Stuart.

Lobster wrote:

What about "CBC, Chem-7 - STAT!!!!"

Tsk - yes I knew that ;-) - was just giving an example of something
shouted out with sufficient frequency and clarity for the OP
presumably to be able to discern!

I'm only just mastering ambulance speak! That's A&E speak!


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The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Lobster wrote:

What about "CBC, Chem-7 - STAT!!!!"

Tsk - yes I knew that ;-) - was just giving an example of something
shouted out with sufficient frequency and clarity for the OP
presumably to be able to discern!

I'm only just mastering ambulance speak! That's A&E speak!

Blood count, serum analysis, now.

Huge wrote:
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I'm struggling a bit with "House", though. I keep having to Google
the diseases.

So long as you know ALS, vasculitis, tilt-table (now that would be a DIY
project and a half...), SPECT, PET, MRI, MRA then you are much of the
way there. But when it comes to poker, monster trucks, schools and
'cultural' references, that's where I find it gets hard.

--
Rod