For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
Murphy's medicine laws: As soon as an EMS Rule is accepted as absolute, an exception to that Rule will immediately occur.
Murphy's medicine laws: The true value of any rookie EMT, when expressed numerically, will always be a negative number. The value of this number may be found by simply having the rookie grade his...
Murphy's medicine laws: A virtually infinite number of wide-eyed and inquisitive school-aged children can climb into the back of any Ambulance, and, given the opportunity, invariably will.
Murphy's medicine laws: Any Ambulance, whether it is responding to a call or traveling to a Hospital, with Lights and Siren, will be totally ignored by all motorists, pedestrians, and dogs which...
Murphy's medicine laws: Always assume that any Physician found at the scene of an emergency is a Gynecologist, until proven otherwise.
Murphy's medicine laws: Any bystander who offers you help will give you none.
Murphy's medicine laws: The weight of the patient that you are about to transport increases by the square of the sum of the number of floors which must be ascended to reach the patient plus the...
Murphy's medicine laws: The number of distraught and uncooperative relatives surrounding any given patient varies exponentially with the seriousness of the patient's illness or injury.
Murphy's medicine laws: The amount of space which is needed to work on a patient varies inversely with the amount of space which is available to work on that patient.
Murphy's medicine laws: As the seriousness of any given injury increases, the availability of light to examine that injury decreases.
Murphy's medicine laws: Those who can neither do nor teach, evaluate.
Murphy's medicine laws: Those who can't do, teach.
Murphy's medicine laws: The simplest Protocol Directive will be worded in the most obscure and complicated manner possible. Speeds, for example, will be expressed as Furlongs per Fortnight and flow...
Murphy's medicine laws: Any injury, the sight of which makes you want to puke, should immediately be covered by 4x4's and Kerlix.
Murphy's medicine laws: In any accident, the degree of injury suffered by a patient is inversely proportional to the amount and volume of agonized screaming produced by that patient.
Murphy's medicine laws: Given the opportunity, any Dispatcher will be only too happy to tell you where to go, regardless of whether or not she actually knows where that may be.
Murphy's medicine laws: Interchangeable parts don't, leak proof seals will, and self-starters won't.
Murphy's medicine laws: You need it to save a life, or the salesman leaves.
Murphy's medicine laws: Any patient who chooses to go to Jail instead of the Hospital has probably been in my rig in the past.
Murphy's medicine laws: Any patient, when given the option of either going to Jail or going to the Hospital by a Police Officer, will always be inside the Ambulance before you are.