Perhaps if I had done what as a new EMT so many years ago I had done,
the patient would have been more comfortable. Now, I am not saying
take away my morphine and Fentanyl and just give me a pile...
It’s Christmas eve. We get called to one of the local nursing homes
for rib pain. The room number sounds familiar. As we wheel our
stretcher through the lobby, “Good King Wencelous” plays t...