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You've come to conclude 90% of all drunks are a waste of protoplasm.

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Never refer to someone in respiratory distress as a Smurf.

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Automatically multiply by 3 the number of drinks they claim to have had.

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Your social skills will be lacking, if all your anecdotes deal with blood.

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Assume every female between 6 and 106 is pregnant until proven otherwise.

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Get very, very scared when a child is too quiet.

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Don't place bets on the glucose level of an unresponsive patient.

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You cannot institute a surcharge for unruly or surly patients.

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It is not necessary to have a pet name for your cardiac monitor.

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As long as stupidity remains epidemic, you have job security.

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Don't worry about the gunshot wound as much as dealing with the family.

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All emergency calls will wait until you begin to eat, regardless of the time.

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Any instrument, when dropped, will always come to rest in the least accessible place possible.

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The distance of the call from the Hospital increases as the time to shift change decreases.

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Emergency calls will randomly come in all at once.

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Assume that all field personnel are idiots until their actions prove your assumption.

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If you respond to any Motor Vehicle Accident call after Midnight and do not find a drunk on the scene, keep looking: somebody is still missing.

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Any patient, when given the option of either going to Jail or going to the Hospital by a Police Officer, will always be inside the Ambulance before you are.

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Any patient who chooses to go to Jail instead of the Hospital has probably been in my rig in the past.

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You need it to save a life, or the salesman leaves.

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