1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,559 Speaker 1: From the newsroom and news still come to me. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 2: Good day there, I'm Andrew Bucklow In today's episode is 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 2: a fun one. We're going to meet a paramedic who 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 2: has seen it all. Unexpected birds, mummified cats, and fussy furries. 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this fellow is going to share with us 6 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 2: the most bizarre, hilarious and horrifying jobs he's ever been 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 2: called to, including one that ends with a broom where 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 2: no broom should ever be. Tim Booth has been a 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 2: paramedic in New South Wales for almost ten years, and 10 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: he's just released his second book called You Went to 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 2: Emergency For What, in which he shares some rather memorable 12 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 2: stories from his career. 13 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: Good day, Tim, Good day Andrew. 14 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 2: How are you mate, I'm very well thanks. This book 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 2: is an absolute cracker. The first story you share is 16 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: about a hoarder named Darlene. 17 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: It is so bizarre. 18 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: Can you just tell everyone what happened when you rocked 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 2: up to her house in your ambulance. 20 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll give you a quick down. 21 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 4: So as you probably know, a lot of people won't 22 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 4: go anywhere without taking their pets with them, and that 23 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 4: even extends to life or their situations. 24 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 3: As we've found out on one occasion as an embo. 25 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 4: So yeah, this poor woman, she was critically unwell, but 26 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 4: she absolutely refused to go to the hospital unless we 27 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 4: took the dead catalong as well, which funnily enough, was 28 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 4: the reason she actually called her. 29 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 3: She wasn't worried about herself. She just wanted us to 30 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 3: try and resuscitate. 31 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 4: This cat, which unfortunately isn't something within our skills, but 32 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 4: some people seem to think we're like an after hours 33 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 4: bet when the regular vet's not available. 34 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: So she had a dead cat on her lap. 35 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 3: Is that right? Sitting on her lap? 36 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 4: And they're not just dead like this thing had expired 37 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 4: probably three days ago, so it was basically a bio 38 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 4: has it at this point. But she absolutely wouldn't budge 39 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 4: unless we tried to resuscitate this thing. So I'm staring 40 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 4: at my partner going, there's absolutely no way I'm doing 41 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 4: CPR or putting the dfea bond a cat. 42 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 3: What are we going to do? 43 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 4: So we sort of improvised and applied a children's oxygen 44 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 4: mask onto the cat, which sort of seemed to convince 45 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 4: her that we were doing something, and wrapped it up 46 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 4: in a bunch of blankets and that convinced her to 47 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 4: get into the ambulance. 48 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: And I mean the reason for the blankets. 49 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 4: If you've ever been in the back of an ambulance, 50 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 4: you know you can't roll the windows down. Somehow, I 51 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 4: had to survive the smell, so I wrapped the thing 52 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 4: up in the copious amount of blankets, and unfortunately then 53 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 4: had a lot of explaining to do at hospital when 54 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 4: I forgot to mention that what was actually wrapped up 55 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 4: in the blankets. As soon as the doctor the nurses 56 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 4: started ripping the thing off to assess the patient. You 57 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 4: can imagine the horrified looks when this half mumified cat appeared. 58 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 2: Ah So, just to be clear, you weren't able to 59 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 2: save the cat, were you? 60 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 3: The cat? Unfortunately, it had used up the last of 61 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 3: its nine lives. 62 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 2: Another story that stood out to me from your book 63 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 2: was when you were called out to a private hospital. Now, 64 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 2: before we get into what happened there, this kind of 65 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 2: struck me as odd because why is it that a 66 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 2: private hospital would call an ambulance for one of their patients. 67 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: Explain that to. 68 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 3: Me, Well, so, private hospital, they're obviously amazing. 69 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 4: You know, if you're getting rehab on your life back surgery, 70 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 4: or if you're after a really good cup of coffee, 71 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 4: because they've got billions of dollars poured into them. But 72 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 4: they don't exactly handle emergencies as well as public hospitals do. 73 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 3: That's sort of not their specialty. 74 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 4: So sometimes when there's complications, we have to get involved 75 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 4: and we have to pick up patients from the private 76 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 4: and take them over to the public. 77 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 2: You have a story about a man named mister Collins. 78 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 2: So he had a hernia at repair two days prior 79 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 2: in this private hospital. He was still in the private hospital, 80 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 2: but if he developed a fever and his blood pressure 81 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: was plummeting, so they called for an ambulance. Tell us 82 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 2: what you found when you arrived. 83 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 4: Look, so we should we should be clear. I mixed 84 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 4: up and disguise a lot of details. 85 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 3: So it's not always a man, it's not always a woman. 86 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 4: The agees are different, the locations are different, just for 87 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 4: the whole reason of patient confidentiality, But essentially the crux 88 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 4: of these stories are the same. And yeah, the public hospital, 89 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 4: on the ultrasounds and the X rays was able to 90 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 4: find that an instrument had been left behind in this 91 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 4: poor man's abdomen. Hence developing the fever and the infection, 92 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 4: and yeah, that was an interesting few legal letters got 93 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 4: sent around then I can imagine. 94 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, what so the private hospital had left some kind 95 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 2: of metallic object in him when they were doing his surgery, 96 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: Is that right? 97 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 3: Yeah? Correct? 98 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 4: And this thing, you know, this isn't unfortunately, it's not 99 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 4: super common, but not uncommon for accidents like this to happen. 100 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 4: But you know, they can obviously be resolved as well, 101 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 4: which is the main thing. 102 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: You have some colleagues who share some stories in the 103 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 2: book as well, including Ethan, who I believe is an 104 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 2: emergency department nurse. He tell us a pretty amusing story 105 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 2: about a man who rocked up to the emergency department 106 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:31,799 Speaker 2: in a full body costume. 107 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: Tell us more. 108 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, So I used in my first book, 109 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 4: I used up all my best paramedic stories, so I 110 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 4: had to borrow a few from the a few extra 111 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 4: stories from the doctors and nurses at the EED this 112 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 4: time around, because they started recognizing me and said you 113 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 4: should write a book about this place too, So I said, 114 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 4: all right, well tell me some of your stories and 115 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 4: I will. So. Yeah, this particular day, a six foot 116 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 4: tall man rocks up in a full body fox suit, 117 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 4: so it's complete with the ears, the tale, the whole lot. 118 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 3: And he walks complaining. 119 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 4: That he's pause and not his hands, he's paws and 120 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 4: this is because he's been living three days straight, he's 121 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 4: been in the fox suit and has lost all circulation 122 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 4: to his hands because of the tight pause. And to 123 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 4: further complicate things, he complained of some burning when he urinated. 124 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 4: So I mean this could have been the result of 125 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 4: some sort of bizarre fox mating rich Tuil, I guess, 126 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 4: but this became, you know, a bigger issue because he 127 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 4: because he was a fox not a man, he wouldn't use. 128 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 3: The toilet and a specimen jar. 129 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 4: He insisted on a litter tray, so poor Ethan the 130 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 4: nurse had to somehow cobble together a sort of DIY 131 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 4: litter tray from some hospital soaking pads and bandage trays 132 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 4: to actually be able to extract a sample to test 133 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 4: this guy for a UTI. 134 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 2: The things you guys go through, it is absolutely shocking 135 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,679 Speaker 2: to me. Listen, the book is filled with stories about 136 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 2: people who called ambulances when they really didn't need one. 137 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: It must be incredibly frustrating for you and your colleagues. 138 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 2: Which Paul has shocked you the moment it's the most 139 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 2: pointless call you've ever seen. 140 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 4: Well, I'd almost always have to go back to the 141 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 4: very first job I got as a paramedic, which was 142 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 4: about ten years ago. I was a brand new trainee, 143 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 4: fresh out of university, and it was for a man 144 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 4: short of breath. So we're rushing lights and syrens, my 145 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 4: adrenalines pumping to go to someone who can't breathe, and 146 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do, 147 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 4: my training officers quizzing me what I'm going to do. 148 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 4: You know, I've just studied emergencies for three years at UNI, 149 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 4: and we arrive and as a full grown man with 150 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 4: a block nose because he had a Yeah, he had 151 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 4: a head cold and basically just needed some pseudor fed 152 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 4: and Yeah, had resorted to calling Triple O and getting 153 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 4: an ambulance involved. And I quickly learned that that wasn't 154 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 4: the exception, that's the rules. That's a large percentage of 155 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 4: what we do these days, which I guess is kind 156 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 4: of partially the reason I write these books is to 157 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 4: draw awareness to this and get people back to using us. 158 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 4: What we're meant to be used for which you know, 159 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 4: I thought they taught to kindergarten children, but apparently not anyone. 160 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, in this book he mentioned someone who 161 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 2: caught an ambulance because he lost his spark, another person 162 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 2: who chipped their toenail. I mean, how do you not 163 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: lose your shit at these people when you rock up 164 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 2: and see how pointless their injuries are. 165 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 4: You have to become a very good actor, very good 166 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 4: at smoke and mirrors, because people are very very quick 167 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 4: to lodge complaints as well when you quote unquote lose 168 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 4: your shit. So really it's really just not worth the 169 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 4: headache and the paperwork, so you have to keep professional 170 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 4: composure and just I guess gently try and educate them. 171 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 3: But that doesn't always work. So you know, it's it's 172 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 3: just going to go on forever. 173 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 4: The toothaches, the head colds, the hemorrhoids, the chip toenails. 174 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 3: I mean, even children. 175 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 4: Children having tantrums is one of the biggest ones I 176 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 4: keep going to lately, I've done more parenting of other 177 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 4: people's kids than my own kids. 178 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: Oh my god, that this goes on. 179 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 3: It's truly bizarre, and but this is just every day 180 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 3: for us. These days. 181 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 2: On the flip side, you obviously get called out to 182 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 2: some horrific scenes. Is there one in particular that you'll 183 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 2: never be able to forget? 184 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? 185 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 4: Absolutely, anything involving surprise pregnancies or surprise births always gets me. 186 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 4: So it's horrifying in the same way, but also, you know, 187 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 4: quite fantastic. So one particular day, we got called to 188 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 4: a very sort of understated job. I think it was 189 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 4: abdominal pain or lower back pain or something, which is 190 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 4: pretty bread and butter for us, pretty easy. You assess 191 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 4: the patient, give them some pain relief, round them up 192 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 4: to hospital. But there was something particularly odd about this lady. 193 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 4: She was sort of back arched against the kitchen bench top, 194 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 4: and before I even essentially had time to say hello, 195 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 4: she was wearing these tracksuit pants, and all of a sudden, 196 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 4: this lump fell from her abdominal area down to the 197 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 4: sort of elastic scene at the bottom of the tracksuit 198 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 4: pants and got stuck between that and her shoe, which 199 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 4: she was wearing. 200 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 3: And then that lump, the lump started crying, and. 201 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 4: You know, you can imagine the horror of me and 202 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 4: my partner just expecting to walk into something innocent like 203 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 4: a lowell back pain, and all of a sudden, we've 204 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 4: got a newborn baby to deal with. So but you know, 205 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 4: we rallied and got the job done because we're professionals. 206 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 4: But you can imagine how confronting that is when it's 207 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 4: something you're not expecting. 208 00:08:59,280 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 1: Stick around. 209 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 2: In just a moment, Tim is going to reveal some 210 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 2: of the secret code names that hospital staff use. Welcome back, 211 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 2: I am chatting to paramedic Tim Booth, who's written a 212 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 2: book called You Went to Emergency For What Now? Tim, 213 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 2: you reveal some fascinating behind the scenes details in the book, 214 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: including different code names that hospital staff use. They have 215 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 2: one for the waiting room because they don't always want 216 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 2: to tip off people that that's where they're being sent. 217 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 2: What's the code name you use for that? 218 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll probably get in trouble for giving away our 219 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 4: biggest secrets here, But we use the phonetic sort of 220 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 4: military alphabet to disguise if someone's going to the waiting room, 221 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 4: So we call it the Whiskey Romeo. So if you 222 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 4: hear you going to the Whiskey Romeo and you're sitting 223 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 4: on an ambulance stretcher, it means you probably shouldn't have 224 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 4: called an embulance. 225 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 2: Emergency departments have a direct hotline for you ambulance crews 226 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 2: to call through and warn of incoming disasters. 227 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: What's that hotline called? 228 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 3: Yeah? The batphone? Which the bat phone? 229 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 4: Yeah, Bat, which it's got something to do with the 230 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 4: It doesn't stand for anything. It's just the nineteen sixties 231 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 4: camp cartoon, you know, starring James Woods. 232 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 3: Whereas somehow you've got. 233 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 4: Linked to a phone where which embOS used to call 234 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 4: the hospitals directly when we have critically unwell patients like 235 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 4: our friend with the cat before. 236 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 2: And the resuscitation section is where patients go for most 237 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 2: critical care. 238 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: What nickname do hospital staff have for that area? 239 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 3: Yeah? 240 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 4: So that's the O shit or the of zone. So 241 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 4: that's where you don't want to be. So it's funny. 242 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 4: People always complain about waiting a long time in emergency, 243 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 4: but we tend to say, you know, if you're waiting, 244 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 4: that's a good thing. It's if you're getting seen straight away, 245 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 4: you know, that's when you should be worried. That's when 246 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 4: you're going to be in the O ship zone. 247 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 2: One thing I love asking medical professionals is for the 248 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 2: craziest story where you've had someone rock up or you've 249 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 2: had to go to their house in an ambulance because 250 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 2: something has gone up there bum Does that happen a lot? 251 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, Well that's actually a story that probably landed me 252 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 4: in a bit hot water from the last book, really yeah, 253 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 4: which involved a gentleman and a broom handle and unfortunately 254 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 4: the hook on the broom handles that's used to I 255 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 4: guess stack the brooms on the shelves that didn't agree 256 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 4: with internal bodily organs and it got stuck. So it was, yeah, 257 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 4: not something that we remove either, but we were called 258 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 4: to assist with transport and get that sort at the 259 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 4: hospital later. So yeah, if you're putting things where they 260 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 4: shouldn't go, unfortunately were the last port of call. 261 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 3: Generally we're the ones that gets handballed too. 262 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 2: I assume that a lot of people are putting this 263 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 2: stuff up there for pleasure, but have you heard some 264 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: pretty bizarre excuses of how they've tried to justify it 265 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 2: over the years. 266 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always there's always an excuse, and it's always men. 267 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 4: It's usually men. Women are not stupid enough to do 268 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 4: this stuff. It's always blokesage between about twenty and fifty 269 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 4: who've clearly got too much time on their hands. 270 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 3: And it's always you know, I slipped over and fell 271 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 3: on the bedpost or yeah it was. It came out 272 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 3: of nowhere. I didn't see it coming. So why did you, 273 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 3: geen Gil? 274 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 1: Why did you get in trouble for sharing that story? 275 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 3: Oh? I guess you know. 276 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 4: There's a reason most people wait until they're retired to 277 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 4: write these sort of books. 278 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 3: They don't really like you talking about this kind of stuff. 279 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 3: They want. 280 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 4: They want more, I guess positive hero stories like you 281 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 4: see on the reality shows, which I guess I don't have. 282 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 3: All the fancy at it. 283 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 4: Some more of a raw, unfiltered look at what it's 284 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 4: actually like inside the ambulance and inside the emergency departments, 285 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 4: which I think is important to let people know about. 286 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 2: To absolutely, your book is such a fun and eye 287 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 2: opening read. It is called You Went to Emergency for 288 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 2: what I loved it. I encourage everyone to go out 289 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 2: and buy a copy. Hopefully it makes you not call 290 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 2: an ambulance for a ridiculous reason. 291 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: Tim Booth, thank you so much for your time. 292 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 3: Thank you, Andrew great CHEDI mate, what a great blow 293 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 3: key is? 294 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: And you know what. 295 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 2: I'm so glad he didn't recognize me from the broom incident. 296 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: I'm kidding. That was not me, I promise. All right, 297 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: thanks for listening. 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