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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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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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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Given the opportunity, any Dispatcher will be only too happy to tell you where to go, regardless of whether or not she actually knows where that may be.
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In any accident, the degree of injury suffered by a patient is inversely proportional to the amount and volume of agonized screaming produced by that patient.
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