Conan's Paramedic Fan Got His Shift Covered To Appear On The Podcast | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

well uh tell us Chris uh first of all. nice to meet you and where are you right. now I'm in Chico California Chico. California and um oh look at your books. behind you you got World War II the. Civil War uh we could be friends you and. I we have similar interest I can tell. like you you're always talking about. like at the end of your show you're like. you know like we're friends in the. podcast we're not friends outside I got. a got feeling we'd be friends in real. life without question or doubt well. first of all I love you got some red in. your hair you got the cool stash cool. must I like mustache right there um and.

you got a good broadcaster voice you got. a very good I appreciate that thank you. con yeah do what's your profession are. you you a guy that like does a paramedic. oh you're a paramedic oh my God yeah I. I'd very much like to be a broadcaster. but no I'm a paramedic for now oh yeah. you're only saving lives right now yeah. you're really tell more people I'm sure. Chris let me assure you what you're. doing is so much cooler than uh than any. broadcaster I know that is very cool. tell us what it's like to be what's it.

like to be a paramedic tell us about it. uh it's very rewarding at times um it is. it is the biggest compliment I Reed in. my life is being welcomed into stranger. home during their time of and the only. way I can repay that is like by doing my. best okay um it's extremely rewarding at. times and at times it is absolutely. difficult very difficult when you first. show up you go in the room let's say you. you enter the house you go in and I. guess the first job is to try and. ascertain what is wrong with this person. right yeah why did you call 911 today.

okay I always introduce myself if uh. it's available as a paramedic and I say. you know Hi how are you doing what made. you call 911 today are you any pain. what's going on and we kind of have to. go down the route of is it a medical. problem or is it a traumatic problem and. then from there we uh treat diagnos the. best for ability and transfer them to. the appropriate Hospital wow this is you. you are uh first of all it sounds like. you're very calm in these situations. right it just you I am I'm more nervous. about this and I have ever been like.

there'll be like there's blood. everywhere on the radio I'll just be. calm as a cucumber but there like Lisa. was just telling me like con's on in two. and I'm sweating okay all right well. listen maybe you need a paramedic you. should you should call someone right now. why did you call 911 I'm on the phone. with con' Brien it may be kind of. nervous I won't be the first I won't be. the last um so uh okay you a paramedic. and you you go and you don't have to. call me sir just call me Admiral um but. ad you go into their home and let's say.

you notice okay this person's got a real. problem and you uh put him in the. ambulance and then you take him to the. emergency room does you just drop them. off then or or is there a handoff to the. trauma Sur there is a hand off report. and the handoff report is one of the. most valuable things I can provide on. most calls um I have access to like the. patient's house I have access to or the. side of the the road I can see what. happened to the patient I can see their. living circumstances and I can tell them. to the nurse and uh doctor as well uh so.

in the I'm usually as the paramedic I. work alongside an EMT the EMT generally. speaking is the one that drives and. assists me U while we're not driving and. I'm in the back and I provide um a. higher level of care uh I provide uh you. know IV Therapy cardiac Monitor and I. have a list of medications I can give if. appropriate what wow just I didn't know. the we go to an appropriate hospital or. different destinations a hospital and. myself or sometimes I have to call a. doctor and decide which appropriate. hospital or which hospital is. appropriate for this patient wow do you.

ever give the uh guy driving attitude. that you have all these other. responsibilities every day. yeah I would I'd be like hey how's the. driving going forunate I'm back here uh. giving medications and saving lives hey. you might nice left turn the guy's. Bleeding Out. bragging I would I would spend all my. time bragging my my uh my my I'm going. to turn you up I'm sorry my partner I. have the greatest EMT partner in the. world he uh we work really well together.

he constantly challenges me um he's. constantly asking me questions about. this that the other thing his name's. Talon he listens the podcast too okay. well Tom said hey shout out what's his. name again shout out Talon like a claw. his name is Talon. whoa the ever yeah now I like him better. why am I talking to Talon yeah Chris you. got to step work right now I had to get. my ship. covers. Rapier as in Rapier with that's don't.

call me terrible terrible Nick really. bad that one was really bad stiletto. yeah that's not like something like. about like his stash like we'll call him. the broom oh God you guys are so bad at. this the broom go you go knife okay okay. okay well that's all better than my real. nickname what's your what's your real. Rain Man work they call you Rainman. really yeah oh yeah I I played trivia. with my uh with my oh you're good at.

trivia that's all right good trivia and. chess if they're mocking you for being. uh intelligent and having knowledge uh. that's okay you know I'm sure you know. the feel I'm sorry I mean seriously I've. been mocked in the past but uh so what. if I can't throw a baseball anyway let's. not dwell on that last time I threw. baseball I had to call an EMT um so uh. you get to the hospital you have the. patient sir. um do you have to say like okay here's. what I think it is does the does the.

surgeon ever have a real attitude like I. think I'll figure this out do they ever. do that like I think I got it from. forunate yeah they went to seven years. of school I went to one yeah there's a. big difference but I'm very fortunate. again the hospital I work in a. association with is uh we have some very. fantastic doctors I I choose to work. where I work uh because I work with a. lot of really great people including the. doctors and nurses other First. Responders in my area uh come on isn't. anyone in your life a prick I mean come. on that's why you called here are there.

are I have the utmost respect for. everyone I encounter there's got to be. one person at the hospital who's just. the worst we won't name them but you. know who I'm talking isn't very. nice oh good lord anyway uh moving on um. so I'm just picturing him in All denim. scrubs so I hear you having a heart. attack um um that's his. siren.

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