Saturday, September 11, 2004
Seek Save Serve!
Lingualnerve's been doing a short spiel on military types.
It brings back my own memories of National Service, ie National Liability, aka UtterWasteOfThreeYears.
Quite probably the most fun I had was during my Combat Medic course. It was an intriguing mix of geekdom (Physiology and Anatomy for Dummies! How to reduce dislocations and Bandaging 101!) and testosterone (CASEVAC - casualty evacuation, setting up IV lines lying down in twilight...) Our mantra was "Seek Save Serve! Combat Medics!!"
I particularly enjoyed the River Crossing drill. I don't know why... I just found it really relaxing, like a soak in the tub, only fully clothed, with a hapless buddy strapped to you to provide banal conversation if the need arose. Arm over arm... splish. splash. look at the sky, it's so beautiful and blue! (I'm spending my tim... oops sorry. Blasted Roxette)
It's funny how sometimes you miss the bad old days - when at the time, all I could think of was getting out, and getting on with my life and becoming a true-blue doctor.
(Seek Save Serve! ORD LOH!)
It brings back my own memories of National Service, ie National Liability, aka UtterWasteOfThreeYears.
Quite probably the most fun I had was during my Combat Medic course. It was an intriguing mix of geekdom (Physiology and Anatomy for Dummies! How to reduce dislocations and Bandaging 101!) and testosterone (CASEVAC - casualty evacuation, setting up IV lines lying down in twilight...) Our mantra was "Seek Save Serve! Combat Medics!!"
I particularly enjoyed the River Crossing drill. I don't know why... I just found it really relaxing, like a soak in the tub, only fully clothed, with a hapless buddy strapped to you to provide banal conversation if the need arose. Arm over arm... splish. splash. look at the sky, it's so beautiful and blue! (I'm spending my tim... oops sorry. Blasted Roxette)
It's funny how sometimes you miss the bad old days - when at the time, all I could think of was getting out, and getting on with my life and becoming a true-blue doctor.
(Seek Save Serve! ORD LOH!)
