Seizure Victim Unit

EMS 20/20

Christopher M Pfingsten

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4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Is this episode's patient faking a seizure? Does it even matter? Or at least, does it matter more than the anger of a salty medic who terrorizes their trainee? Does THAT matter more than the ensuing medication error?

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0:00.0	Today's episode will not be featured on Guardian CME.
0:02.7	The lung box is going to be an RSI video soon.
0:05.5	And it turns out making things airtight is really hard.
0:10.5	Like it's really difficult.
0:12.9	And so you go online and try and find help and everyone's like, yeah, making things airtight is super hard.
0:18.0	And I'm like, shit.
0:19.6	But I've had some successes. It's now more airtight than it ever was, but I did call, I made a mistake.
0:25.6	There's a friend of a friend that is smart and he's an engineer.
0:28.6	I don't know him very well.
0:31.6	But I've never had a conversation with him that I didn't leave, like, feeling like a fucking
0:36.6	idiot. He can't answer any question without making you feel dumb and making you feel as though he's
0:40.3	angry.
0:41.3	And so I get in touch with him and I'm like, hey, like I'm trying to make this thing airtight
0:46.3	and I'm having some difficulties like, all right, well, what kind of, you said you're using
0:50.6	rubber for the bottom.
0:51.3	What kind of rubber are you using? And I felt, I would feel dumb saying this to anybody, let alone him.
0:57.4	But I'm like, it's, it's whoopee cushion rubber.
1:02.4	And his response was, oh, you mean like the one you get from the whoopee cushion tree?
1:08.4	No, I don't.
1:09.9	Yep.
1:10.4	It turns out rubber can be sourced from trees.
1:13.0	I didn't know that.
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