Rookie Partner IV

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With Rookie Partner III’s acceptance into the accelerated paramedic program, for the past month I’ve been making do with a revolving cast of swing shift EMTs and members of other crews picking up overtime shifts.

Yesterday I met my new permanent (for now) partner, RP IV.

Apparently The Borg is now promoting directly from the EMS Explorer Post to a full-time spot on the rig. Seriously, the kid looks about fifteen.I think he shaves with a lint brush, and checks himself in the mirror every morning for that glorious day when his pubes finally come in.

He also has the annoying habit of calling me “Sir” a lot, asking for permission to go to the bathroom, and apologizing for every. thing. that. happens.

He also drives like an octogenarian grandma on Quaaludes. On our last emergency call, we got passed by a guy on a Hoverround scooter.

I give it three months before he goes from this:

Cub-Scout-Fred

To this:

crazy_old_man

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Posted by Ambulance Driver on May 3, 2010 • Filed under: Uncategorized

Valerie

Stuck riding with you–I'll give him 2 months for the radical alteration in looks and attitude.
Stephan

Thanks for the post of the second pic I needed the laugh, even if I should be working on a ten page paper due in a couple days. Rest assured you are probably right about your new partner. Least he sounds like he is quite willing to learn from the master.
http://roguemedic.blogspot.com/ Rogue Medic

Sorry about RP IV, sir.
jackianne

If anyone can make that transformation happen, AD, it's you.
traumaqu33n

im sure youll have him jaded and full of dry wit in no time!
http://www.stuckinmassachusetts.blogspot.com Jay G.

Aww, you sure were cute as a Cub Scout, AD…
http://tooldtowork.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-all-is-said-and-done.html totwtytr

JayG stole my comment before I could make. Damn, I hate when that happens.
Sierra

aww poor thing but atleast he can learn. and with you i agree it will probably be more like 2 months and hopefully he wont almost hit me again lol
anparadox

ahahahaha!! This made my day:-) I wonder if this is what my teachers think of me?
Gina

I all to sad to say that very soon I will definitly be the little weeney rookie, and Im very worried about driving the ambulance, lol!
Nice emt

you are such a jerk, the poor guy is just new and is trying to show you some respect which you clearly don't deserve
Ambulance_Driver

Thanks so much for the kind words.

“Nice EMT.”

I'd point out how ironic that is, but I'm afraid irony escapes you, since you somehow found a reason to be offended from that post.

I'll be you're a real peach to work with, though.
bcmedicchic

omg, that made my day:)
bcmedicchic

that is so true! And sooooooooooooooooo funny!
Philicia

2-MONTHS??? Wow, c'mon AD – do your job right….SIR…..lol….and it should take 30 days or less. LoL And sounds mire like a sour apple then a peach!
Philicia

Let's see…no sense of humor and offended easily apparently if the posting offended…my suggestion…get the heck outta EMS now…you won't make it without a sense of humor and if you're easily offended, well, it's really a bad choice of profession for you. And that's not a joke sweety, that's the cold hard honest truth!
Will

The “crazy old man” looks like Jack Nicholson.
ebrentprice

Strange but I had the opposite experience back in the day since I started in 1977. We didn't have funds for a proper training program, but by the early 80's the local community college started pumping out new Paramedics. They got rotated to be my partner so I could shake them out. Sort of like a Drill Sgt. training and officer. They still yell, but they say sir. I can't tell you how many times I had to tell them to hold off on the tubes and needles until a proper BLS assesment was made.
kwp

This is too funny! Ive been in the same exact shoes. Out of my twenty years this has happened to me several times. Oh and the SIR thing. That drives me crazy! lol
BaystateEMT

HAHA reading this in my Women in Criminal Justice class was a BAD idea, professor keeps giving me weird looks cause i'm snickering behind my laptop. Funniest thing i've seen all day!
user502277

It could be worse! My new partners ink is still wet on his paramedic license. He's a seasoned professional though (in his own mind), since he worked as a paid on call basic with the local fire department for a year or so. His idea of an assessment is to copy off the fire departments run sheet while I perform his assessment (he has no drive status YET). He still has not figured out how to open the drug box after I showed him twice, and he questioned our last CHF patient at least 5 times on weather they had chest pain after I administered NTG (though he NEVER asked me why I treated this way).

I did call him out on our last patient though, after I whipped out the stair chair he attempted to run out to the truck to “Run a line”. I guess he expected myself and the fire department to carry the patient downstairs. I was fairly harsh when I called him out on this and told him he was going to help carry the patient out with me in front of everybody.

I guess I just miss my old partner of 3 years. We worked together like peanut butter and jelly.
user502277

It could be worse! My new partners ink is still wet on his paramedic license. He's a seasoned professional though (in his own mind), since he worked as a paid on call basic with the local fire department for a year or so. His idea of an assessment is to copy off the fire departments run sheet while I perform his assessment (he has no drive status YET). He still has not figured out how to open the drug box after I showed him twice, and he questioned our last CHF patient at least 5 times on weather they had chest pain after I administered NTG (though he NEVER asked me why I treated this way).

I did call him out on our last patient though, after I whipped out the stair chair he attempted to run out to the truck to “Run a line”. I guess he expected myself and the fire department to carry the patient downstairs. I was fairly harsh when I called him out on this and told him he was going to help carry the patient out with me in front of everybody.

I guess I just miss my old partner of 3 years. We worked together like peanut butter and jelly.