You are listening to EMS 2020, a podcast hosted by Spencer Oliver and myself, Chris Finkston.

We are paramedics with quite a bit of experience, ranging from flight paramedicine to ground

transportation to even some volunteer work as well.

EMS 2020 reviews scenarios based on actual out-of-hospital medical scenes.

Portions of the scenarios are altered to protect the privacy of those involved and to present

educational opportunities to the listener.

Hey everybody. Welcome to another episode of EMS 2020. My name is Chris. That is Spencer. Spencer,

how you doing? You know, I'm all right, man. I'm doing okay I'm a little tired not gonna

lie the other day yeah we were up all night so we we took a flight and we hit a

fucking bird and like not not like a huge thing we didn't know we hit it at the time we heard

a thunk and my immediate thought was like shit shit, I'm the new guy. Did I leave

something on this kid? And so I immediately like tabulate, make sure I have like everything with

me. I'm like, okay, good, not me. And we just thought it was something that fell over somewhere

in the aircraft. And then we landed, of course, and discovered, we hit a bird. So here's my

thing. I'm not saying I hate birds, but I now hate birds because we landed on

that helipad and it should have been just an early like twilight call and then back in time to

go back to bed. But no, we were out there waiting hours upon hours for a mechanic to come out and

make sure that we could fly back, which is great and safety. But here's the thing I don't

understand about birds. If you ever see like a bird on the ground and you try and approach it,

it flies away if you so much as breathe wrong. I mean, you've got to coax it closer to you with

food. But apparently, if you fly a one-ton man-made hurricane at it, it's just going to come right at you. It's like birds and deer sat down and said, all right, guys, humans, not so bad

inside of vehicles, go right up to them.

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