Former Paramedic ER Doc: “I can’t believe y’all managed to get this guy intubated. Good job, AD!
Ambulance Driver: “Wasn’t me, Doc. Grizzled Medic did it. Standing on the left side of the bed, with the head of the bed elevated 45 degrees, no less.”
FPERD [whistling]: “On a four hundred pound snowman with no neck. That’s some serious airway kung fu, Grizz.”
Grizzled Medic [shrugging]: “Meh, I’ve had tougher tubes.”
AD: “His mantis style is strong, Doc. Perhaps…even stronger than my monkey style.”
ER Nurse [pointedly]: “Would you like me to administer some atropine, doctor?”
FPERD: “Maybe, if you promise to ask me in your kung fu theater voice. Come on, just this once.”
ER Nurse: “…”
FPERD: “Just say, ‘doctor, would you like me to give some atropine?’ but your lips have to keep moving for about five seconds after you say it. And you have to put your fists on your hips.”
ER Nurse [rolling eyes]: “You guys are freakin’ weird, you know that?”
FPERD [shrugging at me and Grizz]: “Meh, must be a Y chromosome thing.”
