Assuming I got that right, that's the coolest description I've ever read for an ambulance driver!
and an example of medical humour (which is almost as bad as biologist humour)
Is there still a heatwave in the US? I imagine with that you'll have a lot of elderly patients with heart failure, stroke and other blood-pressure related problems.
Yeah, definitely didn't mean anything negative, but now I know better! I get a bit squeamish around anything medical, so I tend to give that whole world a wide berth.Assuming I got that right, that's the coolest description I've ever read for an ambulance driver!
I'm sure you don't mean anything negative, but there are a number of professionals in EMS who take offense to the term "ambulance driver." Especially if they're paramedics.
I have a degree and a scope of practice equal to and in some ways beyond an RN.
I usually don't mind unless it's someone who should know better.
and an example of medical humour (which is almost as bad as biologist humour
Is there still a heatwave in the US? I imagine with that you'll have a lot of elderly patients with heart failure, stroke and other blood-pressure related problems.
There weather down here's a pretty average summer. Upper 90s, high humidity, occasional rain. Heat isn't as much a problem overall as people are pretty used to it.
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in Bavaria spring and summer have been dry but not too hot with a medium-high risk of wildfires. The heat wave has only just started last week so that we'll have an average crop. Wheat, rye, barley and corn even better than usual (but the latter is used almost exclusively as silage for feeding dairy cows and pigs). It's been too dry for potatoes, our main vegetable, and for cabbage too, so no good Sauerkraut and dumpling harvest this year
The heat is taking its toll on the elderly. I live near the local hospital and the helicopter flies over my house about 5-6 times a day atm. The average is 4 times a week. Lots of strokes, heart attacks, sudden drops in blood pressure; accidents from lack of concentration and the occasional case of dehydration or heat stroke.
I don't envy the emergency services guys - they must work overtime atm, I guess. Nor the personnel at the hospitals or the patients: over here hardly any building has air condition. On hot days we lower the blinds and air during the night when it's cool, but most hospitals lie rather exposed so that the helicopters can land and without shady trees in the vicinity the walls heat up considerably.
At my office, I fight the heat by starting work at 6 am and sticking my feet in a bucket of cold water hidden under my desk. Plus I have a wet bedsheet hanging across the open window (evaporation is cool! Literally
I pity the firemen in their dark uniforms and thick protection gear!
Just got some good news, my days as a welfare snitch are numbered! In a few weeks I will be starting a new job adjudicating appeals of drivers licence suspensions (primarily for impaired driving) and ignition interlock orders.
For those that may be thinking it, I assure you that the irony is not lost on me.
Funny; delete the second clause and you're not far off mine (well, sometimes anyway).
No, that's no option, I'm afraid. AC units are very expensive, hard to get and not common in Germany. We consider them a waste of energy and not "environmentally correct". Even most hospitals don't have any. Instead, we invest in better thermic isolation and build our houses so that they don't heat up too much (not so many windows facing south, for example).
No, that's no option, I'm afraid. AC units are very expensive, hard to get and not common in Germany. We consider them a waste of energy and not "environmentally correct". Even most hospitals don't have any. Instead, we invest in better thermic isolation and build our houses so that they don't heat up too much (not so many windows facing south, for example).
Indoors it's usually nicely cool. The prob is outdoors. Today it's rainly and pleasantly cool, though
