I like working as a paramedic, because every night is absolutely different.
- I honestly never know what I am going to encounter.
Because I am in a small town, I rarely see anything interesting or exciting. Most of our calls are due to old age. We take a lot of patience to the emergency room because they cannot drive. A large population of the area is elderly. We responded to a call at a marijuana delivery service. The marijuana delivery service is only a few blocks away from the fire station. An employee at the marijuana delivery service called the emergency line because the manager could not remember the name of a person working in the building. The manager was in her 60s. She seemed disoriented and dazed. The manager couldn’t remember the name of the employee and I had trouble getting her to remember her own name. Because of the age of the person, I thought it was best to take her to the emergency room. We headed directly to the hospital after leaving the marijuana delivery service. The woman’s wife met me in the emergency area. At that time, the patient seemed to be doing better but I still thought it was necessary for her to have a full physical check up performed by the doctor. The problem with her memory could have been a number of issues that are actually quite serious and it was best to have the test done now instead of waiting until something worse occurred. I urged the patient to seek treatment inside the hospital instead of leaving against medical orders.