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…is, it depends.

If you’re really, really sick..I mean like, need an ambulance sick, you may only have minutes to live.

But we EMTs are the ones most qualified to make that determination. We have hours years of training, and we make the determination that a person is really emergent based upon a finely honed assessment process, years of experience, and something we like to call prognostic indicators…

…the first of which basically states that if a patient begins a conversation with the words “I Googled it,” they are unlikely to die any time soon.

And that’s a shame.

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Posted by on April 9, 2008 • Filed under: Uncategorized
  • Rogue Medic

    The really sick ones use yahoo?

  • Rogue Medic

    The really sick ones use yahoo?

  • Rogue Medic

    The really sick ones use yahoo?

  • Rogue Medic

    The really sick ones use yahoo?

  • Ted

    The only good thing about Dr. Google is that it forces the rest of us to stay on our toes….

  • Ted

    The only good thing about Dr. Google is that it forces the rest of us to stay on our toes….

  • Ted

    The only good thing about Dr. Google is that it forces the rest of us to stay on our toes….

  • Ted

    The only good thing about Dr. Google is that it forces the rest of us to stay on our toes….

  • Wyatt Earp

    Unfortunately in Philly, you may be dead before the Medic Unit gets there. There is a grave shortage, and couple that with the city’s (usual) mismanagement, and you have a recipe for disaster.

  • Wyatt Earp

    Unfortunately in Philly, you may be dead before the Medic Unit gets there. There is a grave shortage, and couple that with the city’s (usual) mismanagement, and you have a recipe for disaster.

  • Wyatt Earp

    Unfortunately in Philly, you may be dead before the Medic Unit gets there. There is a grave shortage, and couple that with the city’s (usual) mismanagement, and you have a recipe for disaster.

  • Wyatt Earp

    Unfortunately in Philly, you may be dead before the Medic Unit gets there. There is a grave shortage, and couple that with the city’s (usual) mismanagement, and you have a recipe for disaster.

  • Rogue Medic

    They have a shortage of graves, too?

  • Rogue Medic

    They have a shortage of graves, too?

  • Rogue Medic

    They have a shortage of graves, too?

  • Rogue Medic

    They have a shortage of graves, too?

  • Kate

    Prognostic indicators can also give a heads up on the educational needs of newborn parents as we found out today in the nursery. If you’re interested, you can check out today’s post for more explanation;)

  • Kate

    Prognostic indicators can also give a heads up on the educational needs of newborn parents as we found out today in the nursery. If you’re interested, you can check out today’s post for more explanation;)

  • Kate

    Prognostic indicators can also give a heads up on the educational needs of newborn parents as we found out today in the nursery. If you’re interested, you can check out today’s post for more explanation;)

  • Kate

    Prognostic indicators can also give a heads up on the educational needs of newborn parents as we found out today in the nursery. If you’re interested, you can check out today’s post for more explanation;)

  • Jim

    That’s really funny AD! I love it!

  • Jim

    That’s really funny AD! I love it!

  • Jim

    That’s really funny AD! I love it!

  • Jim

    That’s really funny AD! I love it!

  • Cheating Death

    Good stuff! I spend more time convincing people they NEED to go to the hospital than that they don’t. Local protocol just doesn’t play nice with refusals…CYA.

  • Cheating Death

    Good stuff! I spend more time convincing people they NEED to go to the hospital than that they don’t. Local protocol just doesn’t play nice with refusals…CYA.

  • Cheating Death

    Good stuff! I spend more time convincing people they NEED to go to the hospital than that they don’t. Local protocol just doesn’t play nice with refusals…CYA.

  • Cheating Death

    Good stuff! I spend more time convincing people they NEED to go to the hospital than that they don’t. Local protocol just doesn’t play nice with refusals…CYA.

  • Tam

    We are fast approaching the first generation of people who use Google as a diagnostic tool…“Why left arm hurt bad?”

  • Tam

    We are fast approaching the first generation of people who use Google as a diagnostic tool…“Why left arm hurt bad?”

  • Tam

    We are fast approaching the first generation of people who use Google as a diagnostic tool…”Why left arm hurt bad?”

  • Tam

    We are fast approaching the first generation of people who use Google as a diagnostic tool…”Why left arm hurt bad?”

  • Ambulance Driver

    “We are fast approaching the first generation of people who use Google as a diagnostic tool…”We’re already there, Tam. We’ve even got a name for it: “Googlechondria.”

  • Ambulance Driver

    “We are fast approaching the first generation of people who use Google as a diagnostic tool…”We’re already there, Tam. We’ve even got a name for it: “Googlechondria.”

  • Ambulance Driver

    “We are fast approaching the first generation of people who use Google as a diagnostic tool…”We’re already there, Tam. We’ve even got a name for it: “Googlechondria.”

  • Ambulance Driver

    “We are fast approaching the first generation of people who use Google as a diagnostic tool…”We’re already there, Tam. We’ve even got a name for it: “Googlechondria.”

  • Tam

    Well, what I’m meaning isn’t bored middle-aged hypochondriac drug seekers on the dole who have the time to sit at home and Google their every imagined symptom, but a generation so used to asking ever question they have to a computer that they’ll Google things like “<>head hurt vision blury cant see frm left eye call 911?<>“

  • Tam

    Well, what I’m meaning isn’t bored middle-aged hypochondriac drug seekers on the dole who have the time to sit at home and Google their every imagined symptom, but a generation so used to asking ever question they have to a computer that they’ll Google things like “<>head hurt vision blury cant see frm left eye call 911?<>“

  • Anonymous

    Ok, let’s try this again, This is absolutely hilarious! In one of my former lives we would advise patients NOT TO GOOGLE IT! because they would scare themselves to death on the spot! Some would practically fall on the floor with relief( having already Googled it and convinced themselves they were dying) and the second group who would ask “why not” which started the usual spiel which ended with if you insist on Googling please go to this site, etc etc. What a bunch of nutcases we are!

  • Anonymous

    Ok, let’s try this again, This is absolutely hilarious! In one of my former lives we would advise patients NOT TO GOOGLE IT! because they would scare themselves to death on the spot! Some would practically fall on the floor with relief( having already Googled it and convinced themselves they were dying) and the second group who would ask “why not” which started the usual spiel which ended with if you insist on Googling please go to this site, etc etc. What a bunch of nutcases we are!

  • Anonymous

    Ok, let’s try this again, This is absolutely hilarious! In one of my former lives we would advise patients NOT TO GOOGLE IT! because they would scare themselves to death on the spot! Some would practically fall on the floor with relief( having already Googled it and convinced themselves they were dying) and the second group who would ask “why not” which started the usual spiel which ended with if you insist on Googling please go to this site, etc etc. What a bunch of nutcases we are!

  • Anonymous

    Ok, let’s try this again, This is absolutely hilarious! In one of my former lives we would advise patients NOT TO GOOGLE IT! because they would scare themselves to death on the spot! Some would practically fall on the floor with relief( having already Googled it and convinced themselves they were dying) and the second group who would ask “why not” which started the usual spiel which ended with if you insist on Googling please go to this site, etc etc. What a bunch of nutcases we are!

  • Anonymous

    Rather looks like someone wanted to make sure that none can bar him from dying.

  • Anonymous

    Rather looks like someone wanted to make sure that none can bar him from dying.

  • Anonymous

    Rather looks like someone wanted to make sure that none can bar him from dying.

  • Anonymous

    Rather looks like someone wanted to make sure that none can bar him from dying.

  • Drama Mama

    Oh my mercy….

  • Drama Mama

    Oh my mercy….

  • Drama Mama

    Oh my mercy….

  • Drama Mama

    Oh my mercy….

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