You should be professional at all times while caring for a patient. One time I slipped up. I was driving the ambulance lights and siren and was trying to make a right hand turn around a Pinto at an intersection and the idiot kept inching up. I got frustrated and let the F bomb loose. The patient heard, they complained, and then I heard it from the director. Not one of my better moments.

On another call when I was a new EMT I was rolling bandage over gauze and accidently dropped it and it rolled across the floor, a little nervous. For some reason the patient declined to be transported. It has always been a mystery to me as to why.

Here’s another stupid action on my part. One time I was behind some cars at a stop sign leaving the hospital. We were doing the stop and roll when my director called on the radio and for a split second I looked down to get the mic. The van in front of me proceeded to stop and so did I by using their bumper. The vehicles were undamaged but the van I hit was from the local state prison and was transporting a convicted murder back to it, so we needed to call the police to file a report. I blamed the director since they called and distracted me, fair enough, even thou I had called them first.