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It’s two in the morning. It’s my night off. I swear, though, that I have the sound of the ambulance call alert repeating in my head on an endless loop, much like nurses hear call bells that wake them from a dead sleep.

Helmets and protective gear are not 100% effective in protecting your body during an accident.

For example, if you’re trying to pop wheelies on your motorcycle as you’re going 60 MPH in the dark and you hit the back of a tractor trailer, your helmet and knee pads probably aren’t going to do much for you.

A little common sense and safety consciousness goes a long way.

Yes, you are STILL allergic to a food, even if it’s mixed in with something else.

For example, if you’re allergic to strawberries, you’re not going to be non-allergic them just because they’re dipped in chocolate or baked in a cake.

Filed under: things you should know by the time you’re 30 but some of us obviously don’t.

Not too long ago we had a guy ‘disappear’ from one of the floors. I guess he had been telling the nurse he was starting to feel better, and the next thing anyone knew, he eloped.

Well, we later busted him for trying to run through the ER doors and go through another badge-only door.

He said he left the hospital and started feeling worse,

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Remember that rant Willy Wonka went on near the end of the original movie, right before Charlie decided to return his Everlasting Gobstopper?

Well, sometimes I wish we could use bits and pieces of that rant when drug seekers get busted and have to leave empty-handed.

Trying to kill a spider by spraying deodorant from an aerosol can directly on an open flame from a Bic lighter, aiming at a curtain, which your friend is standing next to…is not a good idea.

You may miss your mark, set your friend on fire, and miss the spider completely.

There are a lot of “How the f**k did that even happen?’ moments in the ER.
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I think one of the funniest injuries I’ve seen in all the time I’ve worked in the ER was the time this teenager came in by ambulance because he was playing with one of those yo yo balls on the retractable cord, threw it out a little too hard, and knocked himself out when the ball flew back and hit him in the nose.

We’re also banned from tubing perishable items because someone tried to tube a popsicle to another floor, hit the wrong station code, and the popsicle ended up in a higher-up’s office area, where it melted into a gooey syrup and sat over a three-day weekend.

We’re banned from tubing urine and fecal samples to lab after someone didn’t tighten the lid all the way, meaning diarrhea was leaking out of the tube capsule. It apparently landed in the tube drop off and feces splattered on the receiving lab tech.