MarkUK, I am officially a completely unqualified person, but I just happen to have this link here from the CDC in the US with recommendations on the use of face masks:
I work at the met police control room and I'm also worried in case someone comes in with it (we have a really unlogical sickness policy, so loadsa people come in when they should be at home)…because the whole centre will go down with it!
I work at the met police control room and I'm also worried in case someone comes in with it (we have a really unlogical sickness policy, so loadsa people come in when they should be at home)…because the whole centre will go down with it!
Are you able to give friendly advice to the caller and say "you really should call your GP" or is it a case of being a robot and just asking the questions and passing for an ambulance?
I just want to thank the first couple dozen commenters for validating my labelling of the relationship I recently left as abusive. And no, I didn’t exactly spot it, because I didn’t think it was intentional – until the day I moved out and he spent an hour ranting at me.
Thanks.
As an Etsy seller (www.miribelladesigns.etsy.com), I can vouch for using either yourself or one friend as a model. Admittedly, I make/sell jewelry, so size isn’t an issue in the same way (and I gave up on using human models a while ago), but most of us are very small businesses and can’t afford to hire models in a variety of shapes and sizes.
I work in a school as H&S Officer (p/t until I take over two more schools in September) and first aid leader. We've not yet (as of 16.00 9/7/09) had any swine flu, but we've come close, so it's only a matter of time. The First Aiders will be the ones who have to look after the suspected patients until parents arrive.
Can you tell me what kind of masks you are using? I can't get any guidance. Our local ambulance service have been told to put the mask on the patient (makes sense as it keeps the bugs to the infected person) but I still can't find out the type of masks I need. I'm quite willing to hit the budget for a couple of hundred. In the meantime, all we have are gloves, aprons and alcohol gel (to be kept well away from our "students" as they'll drink/eat it).
Adults are supposedly not infectious until they are symptomatic, but that doesn't apply to kids. Unfortunately, we don't know when a child becomes an adult in this context. 12? 14? 16?
Apparantly I am disgruntled. If you have seen my gruntles, please tell them I want them back.
chava, on July 12th, 2009 at 6:41 pm Said:
Oh, but you see, we need to be knocked off our high horses and bratty attitudes so that we will realize the beauty inherent in emotional abuse.
The argument I’ve seen is that the guy has demeaned himself by crossing the room to talk to you, so the insult in the neg is there to bring you down to the same social level. Or something.
Personally, I do not ever like to be approached by a strange guy with pick-up on his mind (the only time I’ve gone to bars I was there for the band or a fun time with my friends), so from my perspective he’s rude to just walk up and expect my attention and then his comment makes it doubly rude.
Our “attitudes” are just posturing to separate the weak males from the strong.
Yah, which is supposedly the rationale for our “cutting remarks” that destroy an innocent male. I’m not above cutting remarks with a serious jackass who won’t back off, but I’m pretty sure that the most ego-busting remarks I’ve ever made were me just being too honest and blurting out the first thought that came to my head.
For instance, on my first job (waitress) this guy was constantly pestering me and when he kept nagging me to guess his age I finally stammered, “Sixty?” Turned out he was in his forties, but my family is long-lived and he lookied way more my grandpa’s age than my dad’s. :p
He didn’t bother me after that. ;) But I really had no intention of trashing him, either. Some of those “cutting remarks” women are accused of are just plain ol’ honesty slipping out. As CassandraSays points out, sometimes you just can’t help but be honest.
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Had a patient today who had rang her GP originally, who then decided to call us! Ended up coming down the MDT as ?swine flu/?meningitis from the doctor…so off on blues and twos for someone who had a curly tail and pointy ears. I hope I don't catch the flu before my hols, let alone catch it and spread it to the sick people I deal with every day.
One of them is this.
It's an African Clawed Frog. Xenopus Laevis if you like Latin names. It means Really Boring Frog. Okay, it probably doesn't, but it should do.For some reason the school I went to had a small obsession with these and there were always a few in tanks in the biology lab. Somehow I became the proud owner of one for a while. It was a very dull pet.
The photo above might as well be a video, because this is what the African Clawed Frog does, mostly. It hangs there in the water, motionless, with an air of deadness about it.
So lifeless does it look that Silent World for a while had a notice next to it that simply said "This frog is not dead."
However, it does have one claim to fame - you can use it for pregnancy testing. And indeed they used to, right until the 1960s. If you inject a female African Really Boring Frog with the urine of a pregnant woman, it will spawn spontaneously within eight to ten hours, apparently. Not pregnant = no spawn.
All very well and I'm sure that many women have been either thrilled or horrified by such spawning.
What I'd like to know is - - who first had the idea that this might work? And how did they think of it?
"Darling, I think we might be hearing the patter of tiny feet soon. The Curse is two weeks late."
"Oh, poppet, how wonderful! But how can we be certain? Oh look, there's an African Clawed Frog that your Cousin Tristram brought back from his latest expedition to the Dark Continent. Perhaps that might come in useful to help us to find out."
"Oh, what a frightfully good idea, darling! Now then, what should we try? - - "
It's a good job things have moved on. I'm glad that when I was pregnant with Olli, I didn't have to pop down to the chemists to buy an African Clawed Frog.
Well Said Suzi…………….
The Hems team saved my 19 year old daughter Kirsty; who was involved in a serious RTA. Kirsty sustained a traumatic head injury among other injuries and spent months at the Royal London Hospital. If it wasnt for this life saving service, I would have lost everything. My Heroes'
We both now work in the Air Amulance shop at the Royal London (voluntary) a few days a week…
You never know when you may need these guys…..
“Call a hambulance! I’ve eaten too many Percy Pigs and now I think I’ve got swine flu!”
I’ve just come back from three weeks’ leave and found the service absolutely inundated with calls from people who think they have swine flu. No one seems to have taken any notice whatsoever of the NHS’s advice, which is to ring your GP if you are worried that you may have a touch of hamthrax. (The only expection is if someone develops life threatening symptoms as a result of the flu, which is extremely rare and usually only seen in people who had poor health to start with). No, the general public have cleverly decided that they want to take their piggy germs to a hospital where they can spread it to thousands of sick and pregnant people and on their way infect a poor ambulance crew who will then go off sick for a week, leaving our resources even more stretched.
As usual, we are not allowed to refuse anyone an ambulance, so the crews have no option but to mask up and go in. Once they arrive and confirm that the situation is a non life threatening case of suspected swine flu, the crews just have to arrange a GP for the patients like they should have done themselves in the first place. Our protocol is that all GP requests are made via Control, because our phone lines are recorded and crews’ mobiles aren’t, so we have been run off our feet calling GPs this weekend. While we are used to making the odd call to GPs whilst getting on with our job, it is extremely dangerous to have allocators and radio ops tied up on these calls when they are supposed to be allocating and operating radios.
Personally, I’d like to see a blanket no send policy on all calls to patients with flu symptoms only unless the call has been authorised by a doctor. Call takers should just be able to say “Are you worried you have swine flu? Well, you shouldn’t be calling us. Call a GP instead.” and the patient would go away and sort out their own GP without tying us up. I can’t see that happening, though.
It is all very stressful. I never want to see another pig again. I am even off my Percy Pigs though I am sure that will pass. I just hope no one in the control room catches it, because I’m sure if they do we will all go down with it and then there will be a huge staffing crisis and I will have to do lots of overtime.
Or can the extras be considered eligible for Best Related Work?
What if, while falling off my horse, I was to “accidentally” knee Mr Neg in the groin on the way down? Oopsie! We women are so uncoordinated you see, it can’t be helped.
It both amuses and disturbs me that men are seriously walking around thinking that “attitude” is the only reason supermodels aren’t falling at their feet. I wonder if they’re eligable for a refund after the first hundred times they try this system and it fails miserably?
Oh, but you see, we need to be knocked off our high horses and bratty attitudes so that we will realize the beauty inherent in emotional abuse.
Seriously, that seems to be the underlying idea. Women have “attitudes” that men just need to poke with the right sharp stick in order to make us realize that THEY are the Twue Dominant Male for whom we have been waiting. Our “attitudes” are just posturing to separate the weak males from the strong.
It’s the same old “nice guys don’t get the girls” thing. Sorry, but I prefer my men nice. Nice doesn’t mean dickless, because dicks shouldn’t mean violence, to say nothing that violence in men shouldn’t be a positive quality. Yet, apparently it is seen as such, by both genders.
For me the negging thing was so absurd that I couldn’t help but laugh. Some of the things they say are just so ridiculous that you’re like, did you seriously think that was going to work?
I could see how if they managed to hit upon something a woman was particularly insecure about it might be different. Different in that she might be really upset – I’m still not seeing how it could possibly result in a woman wanting to talk to them. Making someone feel awful just doesn’t strike me as a very good ice-breaker.
yeah, I don’t know if I would have the wherewithal to laugh at someone, even if I planned to. I would just be too shocked. But I have rather recently been told that I have a killer glare, which I didn’t know (I mean, I glare so rarely), so I might whip that out.
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