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[–] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've had some... Interesting friends in my life, and my advice to all of them has been: tell the police nothing, and the medics everything

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is very good advice, especially if someone has taken drugs. Please tell us. The medicine I give for chest pain can kill someone if they’re having that pain from doing a ton of cocaine and not a possible heart attack.

After the first time someone went into cardiac arrest after I started treating them after telling me they didn’t use any drugs or alcohol today - I followed up found out he survived but had in fact taken a ton of cocaine today, I’ve changed my wording to “Have you taken any drugs or alcohol recently? It’s okay if you have I’m not a cop but if you have it changes which medicine I can safely give you.”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's so wild the wrong ideas that float around about cops and medical personnel. "If you're a cop you have to tell me" and "if I tell them I did drugs they have to tell the cops"

I really do tell all the interesting people in my life "tell cops nothing, medics everything" and it's saved a few butts. My mom is the one who initially told me that. She doesn't necessarily approve of drug use, but made it clear to us growing up that if we ever did something and had to go to the doctor, we needed to tell them everything, and they would always keep our secret, but always lie about it to the cops if they were involved. I love my mom. Lol. She's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Based mom 🙏

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

nah, those workers need some good stories to tell

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

That's exactly why it needs to be something you are willing to explain. It makes their stories better.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

I will neither be kink-shamed nor stop living my life.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Eyy it's my school town!

I can definitely see why they put that up..

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But if you did, DON'T LIE TO the PARAMEDICS!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

"Nevermind what I was doing, just get it out of my ass!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

That means I can do anything then

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Would that hypothetically preclude me from shoving stuff up my ass?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

If what you’d be embarrassed to tell the paramedics is "I shoved stuff without a flared base up my ass" then yes. Never skip the flared base!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That depends

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's okay to have a giant zucchini stuck in your rectum.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

No explanation required for that one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

"So I wanted to reenact the fall of Yugoslavia"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

rule doesn't apply around the holidays

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yes it does.

You never have to explain to family what you broke. You do have to explain it to the guy scraping your ass off the pavement so they find all your pieces.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think paramedics would ask too many questions anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

there's very little we haven't seen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

One time i took my gf high into the mountains next to a thousand foot cliff, and we put a blanket down and...

We didn't die! No regrets 😌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Never thought I would See a Guelph meme but here we are!