im a college student and got sick at the end of june and was in the hospital for 12 days.
at the onset i presented with a high fever and was pretty much out of it - i went to my school's infirmary for some antibiotics where i pretty much became too weak to speak...so they called the paramedics
the paramedics came and carried me out without the stretcher (this is normal in confined spaces which the infirmary was) but for some reason the nurse didn?t like this and said she was going to complain to their supervisor about how they carried me out.
anybody that works in EMS knows that it?s ok how they carried me out...but the paramedic for some reason calls his supervisor and starts bitching about how the school i go to thinks that it is its own city and how important it is. he does this for about 5 min and then comes into the ambulance. He takes my vitals (ie bp, pulse, etc) and they are elevated.
at the time my eyes were really sensitive to light so i had them shut. he asked me to open them up but i couldnt b/c it seriously hurt too much. also i was pretty much too weak to talk at the time so he couldnt here that i was saying that they were sensitive to the light. so at this point he gets pissed off and says "if you dont open your eyes im going to shove this 16 gauge needle (one of the largest needles you can use) into your arm." i cant do it - so he does and starts running normal saline and d50w.
at this point i figure hes thinking its a drug overdose and that i dont want him to see my pupils. also b/c he was mad at the nurses he didnt bother to get a pt history - in which i told the nurses that i was sick with a fever for the last 3 days.
im mostly pissed off b/c i have a scar where the 16 gauge needle was and the vein feels like a rock where he put it. usually u only use a 16 gauge needle in extreme cases like hypovolemia where u need to reestablish body fluids extremely fast and into the antecubital space (area above ur elbow). also usually u run lights and sirens if you use a 16 gauge needle - they took their time to the hospital. also im pissed off b/c i feel he took advantage of me when i was too weak to do anything about it. secondly, since he didnt bother to get the history from the infirmary about how i was sick for the last 3 days and im too weak to tell the docs at the ER whats going on, they think i overdosed on drugs which delays treatment and causes me to be placed in a section of the hospital only for drug addicts until my parents can convince them that i dont take drugs and they call the infirmary to find out what really happend.
later on he finds out that im a medic too who works for a rival company and starts acting nicer - i can tolerate mistakes since they are human...but i feel this guy intentionally hurt me...which is totally unacceptable for a paramedic.
So here is the question...i feel like i should file a complaint to his supervisor about him...however im pretty sure this would get him fired and at the very least suspended.
at the onset i presented with a high fever and was pretty much out of it - i went to my school's infirmary for some antibiotics where i pretty much became too weak to speak...so they called the paramedics
the paramedics came and carried me out without the stretcher (this is normal in confined spaces which the infirmary was) but for some reason the nurse didn?t like this and said she was going to complain to their supervisor about how they carried me out.
anybody that works in EMS knows that it?s ok how they carried me out...but the paramedic for some reason calls his supervisor and starts bitching about how the school i go to thinks that it is its own city and how important it is. he does this for about 5 min and then comes into the ambulance. He takes my vitals (ie bp, pulse, etc) and they are elevated.
at the time my eyes were really sensitive to light so i had them shut. he asked me to open them up but i couldnt b/c it seriously hurt too much. also i was pretty much too weak to talk at the time so he couldnt here that i was saying that they were sensitive to the light. so at this point he gets pissed off and says "if you dont open your eyes im going to shove this 16 gauge needle (one of the largest needles you can use) into your arm." i cant do it - so he does and starts running normal saline and d50w.
at this point i figure hes thinking its a drug overdose and that i dont want him to see my pupils. also b/c he was mad at the nurses he didnt bother to get a pt history - in which i told the nurses that i was sick with a fever for the last 3 days.
im mostly pissed off b/c i have a scar where the 16 gauge needle was and the vein feels like a rock where he put it. usually u only use a 16 gauge needle in extreme cases like hypovolemia where u need to reestablish body fluids extremely fast and into the antecubital space (area above ur elbow). also usually u run lights and sirens if you use a 16 gauge needle - they took their time to the hospital. also im pissed off b/c i feel he took advantage of me when i was too weak to do anything about it. secondly, since he didnt bother to get the history from the infirmary about how i was sick for the last 3 days and im too weak to tell the docs at the ER whats going on, they think i overdosed on drugs which delays treatment and causes me to be placed in a section of the hospital only for drug addicts until my parents can convince them that i dont take drugs and they call the infirmary to find out what really happend.
later on he finds out that im a medic too who works for a rival company and starts acting nicer - i can tolerate mistakes since they are human...but i feel this guy intentionally hurt me...which is totally unacceptable for a paramedic.
So here is the question...i feel like i should file a complaint to his supervisor about him...however im pretty sure this would get him fired and at the very least suspended.