Level Zero

12/15/2025

It does?

It does

12/12/2025

The best field sup.

12/11/2025

🚬 Smoking ambulance announcement! 🚬

Attention smokers and to***co users that live in our service area:

When calling 911, please specify if you smoke/vape when answering questions during the 911 call. We will send medic 15 which is our smoking appropriate ambulance equipped with ashtrays. We have made additional modifications to this truck and have turned one of the cabinets into a cigarette vending machine.

To combat the smoke, we will need to leave the rear doors open during transport, so make sure you dress warm!

Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄

12/10/2025

Hey.

12/09/2025

I still haven't seen it. Those of you who have, what's your take?

12/07/2025

Why not the infidelity lounge?

12/06/2025

No s**t, sherlock

12/06/2025

Welp

12/02/2025

Goddamnit, Donut

11/30/2025

11/30/2025

Working in healthcare has given me a different perspective on what people smell like. I don't mean the homeless, the hoarders, the people that own more than 2 cats ( Note: if you own more than 2 cats, people can tell) or the perpetual w**d smokers. I'm not even talking about the C diff or severe UTI patients.

Just your everyday folk; the grannies and soccer moms, bus drivers and accountants. Everyone has their own semi-unique ( sometimes quite unique) smell.

Sometimes those smells will bring up a repressed memory; I was in a patient's house once that smelled like my childhood friend Mark's house. Immediately brought back a memory of sleeping with his mom when I was in college.

Sometimes folks smell like thier laundry detergent, and often it brings back memories of the scent of a dryer vent, blowing hot air into the alleys between houses where I grew up.

Had a patient last week, middle aged female, well-kempt, fairly healthy. Smelled like urinal puck.

Often, geriatric patients smell like mothballs, or dusty curtains, or (yeuck) lavender. Lavender smells like Raid, reminds me of my great-grandmother's apartment in the '70's. F**k lavender.

Then there are the smells that are not readily identifiable. Not bad, not good, just..unique. I often wonder what it is that makes up those smells, is it a combination of soap, detergent, air fresheners, cuisine? It must be similar to why all Walmarts and Target store smell the same but don't smell like each other.

in 1986, National Geographic sent out a survey to 11 million people, it contained a 6 scratch n sniff patches and a questionaire. I sent mine in, and the issue that came out after the study was done was fascinating. The way scent is linked to memory is a really interesting read if you're so inclined.
Basically I'm just saying smell your patients