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Reader Stories: The Best or Worst Call I Ever Ran

By , About.com Guide

Updated October 08, 2009

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Paramedics and EMTs are always asked: what's the worst thing you've ever seen? It's such a universal question we make jokes about it. I believe people aren't really asking what the worst thing is. I don't think folks really want to know what makes a paramedic puke. Instead, I think most of the people asking this question are simply looking for the gnarliest thing we've seen. So, in the interest of simply getting it on the table, here are the very best of the worst.

What's Your Worst?

No Steering Wheel to Stop His Head

a man was involved in an accident at around 12 midnight coming from the club, the vehicle veered off the road and he struck a tree the steering wheel came off, he bumped his head on the remaining ste…More

Multi-Casualty Incident in Saudi Arabia

One time at night I get accident call.When I arrived there I found there are about 23 trauma patients, between head trauma and many fractures. They are children, adults and old people also.The big pr…More

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