Lost

Lost a patient today.........well did not actually loose per se, more got away from me. All 28st of her was firmly strapped into the stretcher as we were wheeling her to the truck for a routine transfer to hospital, when the left rear wheel dropped into a small, completely unnoticed pot hole.

This small change in angle of the stretcher, combined with the weight of the patient meant that both ended up spilled onto the road!

Thankfully the patient was fine and did not fall that far and was good natured about it. Myself and my crewmate were horrified and hugely embarrassed.

On checking what has caused us to tip, I found half a cobble stone missing from the drive, it was this, one of the wheels dipped down.

It was actually quite fortuetous that the stretcher tipped so readily as neither of us had chance to try and stop it. With 28st on board, plus the 10st for the stretcher, it would have been goodbye inter vertebral discs!