She isn’t the first and she won’t be the last.
There are a lot on passengers for the DC Ambulance service,that drivers and EMT’s know by sight and name and age.
I remember taking one patient to the hospital; for seizures and on arrival the nurse said he isn’t having a seizure. I said Ernest. The nurse says you aren’t having a seizure, well Ernest went into one of the best seizures I had seen for a while and the nurse ended up cursing me for getting him started. Ernest put on a helluva show in public and people would call. We would show up and say Ernest calm down we will take you and Ernest would usually calm right down. The whole Ambulance service knew Ernest. There were others of course, there always are. We had a woman who called each month when her period came around. We called her Bloody Mary amongst ourselves . And then there was Mumbles.
Do you think an underlying issue with these people might be plain old loneliness?
People would be shocked at the amount of abuse that occurs in the EMS system.
I can’t count the number of transports we have have made on fake seizures at the jail. I have seen guys flopping around on the floor “seizing” and when ask, say “I am having a seizure” and then continue to flop around.
I can’t count the times we have carried someone who said “I didn’t call a cab because I would have to pay them.”
We have had diabetics that you could almost set a clock by to the point we modified our dinner schedule to not get interrupted every day.
I think my truck could drive itself to many addresses in this town.
Hubby used to work in a small town here that is 99% Mexican, probably 80% of them illegal. They used the ambulances as taxi cabs to city.