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DOA?
By Walt Hardester
Last edited: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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Another hospital story
One evening I went with the EMT's on a call to a house in the country. When we arrived we found that an elderly gentleman had expired at his daughters house. We picked him up and were to transport him to the hospital to be pronounced.
However, this night the doctors from our town were at a hospital in another town nine miles away attending a monthly medical meeting. We were instructed to bring the body down there to their ER to be pronounced and the funeral home would pick him up from there.
As we pulled up to the dock and proceeded to unload the body, the hospital security guard was there, and noticing the sheet pulled over the mans face said, "DOA?"
My retort was, "No thanks, we already have one."
The guard looked somewhat puzzled, but one of the EMT's started laughing so hard he almost dropped the litter.
This was over twenty years ago, but to this day whenever I see this EMT, who is now a Physicians Assistant,
He starts laughing and says, "DOA?"
Walt
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| Reviewed by Jean Reeves |
9/18/2007 |
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| I bet you are a hoot to work with! I love your sense of humor and quick wit! |
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| Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner |
9/18/2007 |
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Gotta take humor any way you can get it, especially in a medical setting. Good show, Walt!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. |
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| Reviewed by LadyJtalks LadyJzTalkZone |
8/30/2007 |
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| yep, here's your sign...Lady J |
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| Reviewed by Tinka Boukes |
8/29/2007 |
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A funny one my friend.....did not know what DOA stand for until after some exploring... and the help of a clever FRIEND :) !!
Love Tinka |
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| Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan |
8/28/2007 |
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| very funny-a bit of humor is certainly essential |
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| Reviewed by Felix Perry |
8/28/2007 |
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A little levity in that line of work I would think would be almost a prerequisite of the job...good story to share Walt.
Fee |
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| Reviewed by Georg Mateos |
8/28/2007 |
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I would had pay a lot to see the ambulance personel transporting some DOA to the Miami morgue when from under the white sheet came a "what the hell!!" and two arms came out fighting the fabric.
Underwears smell funny that night.
Georg |
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| Reviewed by Southern Comfort |
8/28/2007 |
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| You are so witty and have such a great sense of humor, sometimes surprisin, but truly great! LOVE YA! Sissy |
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