This First Person column was written by Colin Fraser, a former paramedic who lives in Calgary. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
I saw my partner at the triage desk shake his head and roll his eyes.
We were finally at Calgary’s Foothills intensive care unit with a patient who had bounced all the way down Highway 2 from central Alberta with multiple drip infusions and on a ventilator.
The “Ambulance Gods” were at play — those capricious beings paramedics encounter when the chaos builds and everything goes wrong. Already my new practicum student had tripped and disconnected the arterial line into the patient’s arm, forcing us
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