Debbie

It's a great choice.

I'm currently in the on-call room of the hospital where I work at.

I'm a ERPA.

This story takes place about six years ago, just before the pandemic.

I used to work the night shift and the shift that I worked.

When I went off shift, I was just leaving the doctor alone, right?

So as...

I'm going off shift.

If there's an ambulance coming in, I tended to wait to just make sure that the doctor wouldn't need help with the rest of the other patients in the department or whatever's in the truck.

So we get this patron from the ambulance and they say, male in his 50s, stab wounds, a lot of blood loss.

Oof.

thing is the gentleman is on the stretcher in the fetal position.

They're normally on their backs.

And I'll never forget.

I've not even seen this since there was just blood pouring off the stretcher.

So we get him settled in the room for the volume of blood loss that we're seeing.

It's remarkable because this guy, his vitals look great.

He's doing OK.

He's talking to us.

Blood pressure is a hair low, but he's mentating great.