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Shit this thread is still going?

Well I'm still alive, and I look a lot different than I did in 2016

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Also I have some tattoos now, second pic is before I had them done, I have a snake on my left arm and a raccoon with a defibrillator on my right arm :)
 
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Husky said:
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Here’s some decent photos of me.
Also I have some tattoos now, second pic is before I had them done, I have a snake on my left arm and a raccoon with a defibrillator on my right arm :)
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Husky said:
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Here’s some decent photos of me.
Also I have some tattoos now, second pic is before I had them done, I have a snake on my left arm and a raccoon with a defibrillator on my right arm :)
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keep up the good work for the nhs matey
 
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keep up the good work for the nhs matey
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I used to work in a pretty low acuity rural area with only a few major jobs a month. Moved to a high acuity city with very high drug rates and get a critically ill patient at least 1-2 times a shift and twice as many patients as I used to have.

I love it.

Wouldn’t wanna do anything else. But Jesus Christ is the shit that I see on a daily basis heavy.

Heavy CW for some stuff mentioned here:
I’ve been SAssaulted by two patients, attempts at further assaults by more, there’s one frequent flyer on the same street I live on who tries to stab us with used heroin needles regularly. I’ve had some patients try to mug us for morphine like they’re fucking shotcopping bro. Some of them call us just to attack us with knives, swords or blunt force objects or whatever else they have. It’s wild out there. I’ve seen dead infants and resuscitated them successfully, I’ve had people bleeding to death literally in my arms as I’m putting pressure on their wounds. I’ve had children beg me not to let them die. Ive seen a mother overdose on drugs alone in her house with her 15 year old son. People attempt suicide in all manner of ways. Women spiked and begging for help as they’re violently vomiting in and out of consciousness. Women domestically abused by their partners with broken bones who are too scared to let us help them for fear of repercussions against their abusers. I’ve seen women bleeding to death from Cervical shock after failed abortions - and fuck to hell anyone who says abortions are safe or easy to do, I’ve seen them almost kill several people.

There’s been times where I’ve just sat in my car before going into work and I just burst out crying and sobbing. Times I go home screaming to myself through tears in my car at the things I’ve witnessed that shift. In my old station I was bullied a lot by staff there, one of them said after I got sexually assaulted by a patient while he was playing video games on his phone in the corridor ‘Okay… And what could you have done to prevent that?’ With no care for my well-being.

It’s hard. It’s very hard. But there’s some moments that make it all worth it.

Ambulance staff is the job in the UK with the highest PTSD rate (some figures as high as 40%) and the highest workplace injury rate.

And I wouldn’t wanna do anything else, I love it. Pays okay I suppose, I make about 2-2.8k~ after tax each month depending on how much overtime I pull.

And sometimes on my days off I pull overtime just cause I miss doing it when I’m not there, as hard and brutal and dangerous as it is to do… I love it. And I love my crewmates. And the incredible people I get to work with and learn from. I’m currently an EMT and I’ve applied for a paramedic conversion course that’s basically a 2 year mixed studying-working rotation that’s paid for by the trust internally so I keep my job and get a free degree out of it. After that I’m gonna either switch over to Medical Doctorate or Critical Care Paramedicine and I’m leaning more towards CCP at the moment.

I also recently joined the SORT team, Special Operations Response Team. So I’m trained to handle CBRNE and MAT (Marauding Terrorist Attack) incidents. So if anything happens UK wide I could be re-deployed whenever and wherever in the UK to respond to highly dangerous incidents and any sort of hazardous environment in my area such as actively violent patients or potential CRBNE incidents are reserved for me and my teammates. Did once get dispatched to a chlorine gas incident.
 
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I used to work in a pretty low acuity rural area with only a few major jobs a month. Moved to a high acuity city with very high drug rates and get a critically ill patient at least 1-2 times a shift and twice as many patients as I used to have.

I love it.

Wouldn’t wanna do anything else. But Jesus Christ is the shit that I see on a daily basis heavy.

Heavy CW for some stuff mentioned here:
I’ve been SAssaulted by two patients, attempts at further assaults by more, there’s one frequent flyer on the same street I live on who tries to stab us with used heroin needles regularly. I’ve had some patients try to mug us for morphine like they’re fucking shotcopping bro. Some of them call us just to attack us with knives, swords or blunt force objects or whatever else they have. It’s wild out there. I’ve seen dead infants and resuscitated them successfully, I’ve had people bleeding to death literally in my arms as I’m putting pressure on their wounds. I’ve had children beg me not to let them die. Ive seen a mother overdose on drugs alone in her house with her 15 year old son. People attempt suicide in all manner of ways. Women spiked and begging for help as they’re violently vomiting in and out of consciousness. Women domestically abused by their partners with broken bones who are too scared to let us help them for fear of repercussions against their abusers. I’ve seen women bleeding to death from Cervical shock after failed abortions - and fuck to hell anyone who says abortions are safe or easy to do, I’ve seen them almost kill several people.

There’s been times where I’ve just sat in my car before going into work and I just burst out crying and sobbing. Times I go home screaming to myself through tears in my car at the things I’ve witnessed that shift. In my old station I was bullied a lot by staff there, one of them said after I got sexually assaulted by a patient while he was playing video games on his phone in the corridor ‘Okay… And what could you have done to prevent that?’ With no care for my well-being.

It’s hard. It’s very hard. But there’s some moments that make it all worth it.

Ambulance staff is the job in the UK with the highest PTSD rate (some figures as high as 40%) and the highest workplace injury rate.

And I wouldn’t wanna do anything else, I love it. Pays okay I suppose, I make about 2-2.8k~ after tax each month depending on how much overtime I pull.

And sometimes on my days off I pull overtime just cause I miss doing it when I’m not there, as hard and brutal and dangerous as it is to do… I love it. And I love my crewmates. And the incredible people I get to work with and learn from. I’m currently an EMT and I’ve applied for a paramedic conversion course that’s basically a 2 year mixed studying-working rotation that’s paid for by the trust internally so I keep my job and get a free degree out of it. After that I’m gonna either switch over to Medical Doctorate or Critical Care Paramedicine and I’m leaning more towards CCP at the moment.

I also recently joined the SORT team, Special Operations Response Team. So I’m trained to handle CBRNE and MAT (Marauding Terrorist Attack) incidents. So if anything happens UK wide I could be re-deployed whenever and wherever in the UK to respond to highly dangerous incidents and any sort of hazardous environment in my area such as actively violent patients or potential CRBNE incidents are reserved for me and my teammates. Did once get dispatched to a chlorine gas incident.
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A friend of mine has just joined the Ambulance Service, and I've never seen him so exhausted. Such rewarding work, but it takes so much out of people.

Really well done on joining SORT - I know this probably comes across as hollow to a lot of people b/c I used to be a bit of an arsehole, but genuinely, keep up the good work for what you do for this country.
 
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Warwick said:
A friend of mine has just joined the Ambulance Service, and I've never seen him so exhausted. Such rewarding work, but it takes so much out of people.

Really well done on joining SORT - I know this probably comes across as hollow to a lot of people b/c I used to be a bit of an arsehole, but genuinely, keep up the good work for what you do for this country.
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Nothing hollow about it. I sincerely appreciate it. Thank you. As hard as the work is I do take satisfaction in knowing that I have genuinely changed peoples lives in just a few short hours of knowing them.

I kinda realised a while back that I didn’t like who I was or who I used to be and that I was arrogant and a bit full of myself. I dedicated myself to changing that and becoming a person I’d be proud of and look up to. I think I can say that I’m on the path to being that person, and I’m incredibly proud of what I’ve achieved and what I do.

Tell your friend that from a friend in the service my biggest pieces of advice.
-Keep it simple, stupid.
-If you find yourself panicking, stop, breath, re-assess, get back in there - it’s only a job.
-Keep learning, no matter what. Assume everyone knows more about something than you do no matter their grade or yours. If you learn from them they’ll be eager to learn from you.
-Get a good Spotify playlist for the truck. Something with a lot of rock music, classics, decent music. It really helps improve morale if you and your crew-mates. On the FIAT’s you can plug into the ambulances sound system just above the cup holders in the middle at the bottom.
-Get hobbies outside of work, anything. I write and perform poetry, do pool nights, social clubs. Anything. Keep yourself grounded. This is probably the best advice for a long career.
-It’s their emergency, not yours. If they die, you’re still going to be fine. Learn to sympathise with patients but not empathise with them. If you get emotionally tied in with them you will burn out quickly.

I wish them luck. And ask ‘em how they’re doing every now and then, it is hard, and the first year on the road is absolutely the hardest part of your career - it will break you down emotionally and physically.
 
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Husky said:
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Also I have some tattoos now, second pic is before I had them done, I have a snake on my left arm and a raccoon with a defibrillator on my right arm :)
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strange, these images dont load for me anymore, probably a me issue.

anyways congrats on being a health worker, always respect to be had there, even if the NHS is practically dead and buried right now

could you use your NHS insider influence to push for all clinics to ditch the fucking retarded 8am-10am appointment window bullshit? that stuff has made dealing with my full-body eczema so pointlessly hard and i can't imagine what it's like for people who are both busy at that time of day (i.e. has a job) and doesn't have someone they can rely on to call the clinic for them

needed to vent lol
 
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abcdefg said:
strange, these images dont load for me anymore, probably a me issue.

anyways congrats on being a health worker, always respect to be had there, even if the NHS is practically dead and buried right now

could you use your NHS insider influence to push for all clinics to ditch the fucking retarded 8am-10am appointment window bullshit? that stuff has made dealing with my full-body eczema so pointlessly hard and i can't imagine what it's like for people who are both busy at that time of day (i.e. has a job) and doesn't have someone they can rely on to call the clinic for them

needed to vent lol
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same here - been an absolute fucking nightmare getting my new medication

"you must wait outside for an hour and a half in the rain at 7 am so that you dont have a seizure"
 
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