A normal day.

20mth M - Febrile and vomiting, the job was transferred to our Health Advisor in the despatch room and the parents decided to just take their own car like they had the day before.

80F - Had a big bowel motion and fainted gashing her forehead. It needed more than a bandaid.

82M - Call from Home Visit Community Nurse who was rightly concerned about the pts ability to cope at home after discharge from a month in hospital. Non compliance with meds, very poor diet, raging BSL.

75F - Fractured humerus from a nursing home.

19mth M - On a outing with family when they thought he became unresponsive. We got called off for a closer car but they didn't transport.

55M - Regular IP who rings about once a week to go to hospital and we can't refuse him.

70M - Fell over drunk in a park and the public called an ambulance without asking him if he
needed one, which he didn't.

28M - Abdo pain. It took forty minutes for a car to successfully get to the payphone (us) but he hadn't stuck around for us. Maybe he had gone to the small inner city hospital four blocks away or the bulk billing medical centre across the road.

22F - Playing touch football and 'rolled' her ankle. One look at it and it failed the Ottawa exam, very deformed.

And that's 940 jobs/124 shifts or a 7.58 average.



See you at the big One.

Taz