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service s $27,000 budget, $85,000 is provided by user fees.
The technicians drive leisurely back to base. They stop at McDonalds.
Lee says, "That wasn't really a good call."
A good call demands all a technician's skills, he said. It's not that the technicians want a lot of people injured, he said, but that they want to use the skills in which they are
"We do it because we love it," he said.
We don't do it because we want to sit
"Somebody gets shot in the head and you go out and take care of it," he said. "That's your job. You finally realize that people have to die. It's satisfying because you know you've done everything you could to keep them from dying."
The work is depressing at times, he said,
but satisfying overall.
It is most depressing, he said, when children die.
However, the talk around the station is far from depressing.
"I had to pick up the 4-year-old brother of my best friend, and he was the worst died." I
McElhaney agreed.
As the technicians watched a car race on television, one said, "God, he drives like a dog."
And as an ambulance arrived on the scene, they all velled and applauded.
Their schedules demand both humor and friendship. They work an average of 56 hours a week and are on call for duty for 38 hours a week. They are, and don't, until it is a.m. the next day.
THEY WORK the first, third and fifth day of a nine-day rotation and then have four days off. Two crews of an advanced technician one lesser technician are on duty.
McFarlane said, "Obviously my people enjoy this kind of work or they wouldn't be
doing it. The pay isn't that great, the hours are terrible."
Sometimes the duties aren't that great either. The next call was for taking a body to the hospital.
"They're going to the hospital to pick up a stuff." McEhannay said.
The next emergency call arrived at 11:43
accident at Ninth and
Mississippi's airport.
They begin the questioning. McEhanyan leads the woman to the ambulance. Not only does she have an answer,
"I need a long leg splint," Lee said.
"I want a splint board, too?" McEllenhay said.
"I'll tell you," Lee said. "Come on. Get the log split. When I tell you it looks like that."
THEY JOKE to calm the man.
"You want a bullet to bite?" McElhaney asks.
"Don't worry, we haven't lost one yet," Lee said.
The man is afraid he'll fall from the stretcher.
Lee said. "Are we at the hospital?" he asks.
"Just about," Lee said. "We have to take it just slow. There's a lot of chuckles.
Tuesday, March 7, 1978
"I know," the man said. "I've been counting every one of them."
And once again there are forms to fill out and equipment to check.
"I'm tired," Lee said on the way back to he
hone; "hone this doesn't keep us all nigh."
He does not get his wish. The service receives calls at 3,4,5 and 6 a.m.
The technicians and McParlane say they are proud of the ambulance service. Three of them were trained as a director, the service had no advanced technicians. Now there are nine. They can administer drugs and intravenous solutions, treat patients with strep throat, insert an air tube into a victim's trachea.
TODAY—MONROE BEARDSLADS of Temple University will present a philosophy lecture, "Speech Act Theory and Its Applications in Aesthetics," at 2:30 in 4023 Wescoe. COLLEGE ASSEMBLY will meet at 4 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
TONIGHT: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS will meet at 6:30 in the Kansas Room of the Union. Anvone interested in ballet, modern dance or jazz is invited to come to TU SAHMA at *in* Robinson Gymnastics'舞会. The students of this class will be represented by Rep. MIKE GLOVER and HAROLD VOHT will debate "Marijuana Laws Reform" at 7:30 in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall. JOHN R. SEARLE of the University of California at Berkeley will present a humanities lecture, "Mind and Lecture," at *in* Woodruff Auditorium in the Union. MARTIN AGEE, violin, and Eripp, soprano, will present a recital at *in* Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
THE SERVICE is buying new radio equipment. With current equipment, they cannot talk with the hospital when they leave the ambulance in some parts of the county because their walkie-talkies are too weak. The new equipment will allow them to talk to the hospital at all times and will also send out cardiograms to the hospital from the field.
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Another purchase is a second monitor defibrillator, which will heart's pacemaker be connected to an electric current.
But the service still has some problem.
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THE TECHNIICIANS also say another station is needed. The service is beginning a computer system that will record information about each call. The record will prove another station is needed, the technicians content.
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McFarlane said he thought the improvements overshadowed any problems.
"You've got a better chance of living in the county if you haven't done that in this state," he said.
KU blood drive not up to goal
The Kansas University blood drive that
beread yesterday full short of the 240-pint
total goal.
Judy Hartsook, blood program representative from the Wichita region of the Red Cross, said yesterday that the low turnout was caused by the bad weather last week during donor registration and by the need for vaccines because of fin and measles outbreaks.
According to Hartsook, 176 people were in intending to give blood, but only 154 units of blood were taken. Twenty-two people were in need of nurses or could not give blood for other reasons.
Hartsook said that blood could not be brought from persons weighing less than 110 pounds, and antibiotics 48 hours before donating. Also, people who had hepatitis or jaundice had blood in their system.
The turnout is expected to increase today, according to Kylie Burke, blood drive manager.
The drive continues today and tomorrow in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
SUA Films
Wednesday, Mar. 8
Fritz Lang's American Films:
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
MANHUNT
One of Lang's greatest films, evocation of the American Myth of the Outlaw with Henry Fonda
With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett,
John Carradine
7:30 & 9:30 onm $1.00 Woodruff
Thursday, Mar. 9 Structuralist Films:
T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G.
Paul Sharits,
REMEDIAL READING
COMPREHENSION
George Landow
STRAIGHT AND NARROW Beverly Conrad
HAPAX LEGOMENA 1:
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Hollies Frampton
CANADIAN PACIFIC
David Rimmer
PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS Gary Beydler
1977 collection of the world's best recent animation—the best in range of innovative techniques and diversity of materials used.
12th INTERNATIONAL YOURNEE OF ANIMATION
3:30, 7:00 & 9:30 p.m. $1.25
Woodruff Aud.
Fri. & Sat., Mar. 10 & 11
Monday, March 20
Dir. Vilgot Sjoman "The controversial groundbreaking film on sex, politics, and human relationships"
Sexuality in the Cinema:
I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW)
I AM CURIOUS (BLUE)
Marijuana use to be debated at KU tonight
Dir. Vilgot Sijoman
7:30 p.m. $1.00 Woodruff Aud.
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State Rep. Mike Mover, D-Lawrence, and Harold Voth, a senior staff psychiatrist at the Mennonite Foundation in Topeka, will attend tonight in a debate on marijuana reform.
The debate, sponsored by SUA Forums,
will be at 7:30 in the Forum Room of
the Kansas Union. The debate is free and open to
the public.
Glover, who will be debating in support of marijuana reform, this year introduced a bill in the Kansas Legislature to decriminalize marijuana use. The
legislation is now under consideration by the Senate Federal and State Affairs Commission.
Glover proposed similar legislation last year, but it was killed by the Legislature.
Vothed testified last month at Kansas Senate hearings against the proposed marijuana reforms and also testified last year before hearings of the Kansas House.
VOTH, A PSYCHOANALYST and a
politician, debate in opposition to
marijuana reform.
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