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Medic
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schedule allows each of the 21 paramedics to have 20 days off a month.
"A lot of people say that I'm never really at work," he said. "I work 10 hours a day, but those in days are 24 hours at a time, and they can be 24 hours on."
Real-life Drama
Brown said that for many people, the job tended to dominate their off-duty life as well. However, he chooses to use his time off for family camping and hiking trips.
"I try to separate work from my family life as much as possible," he said. "I use some family support for work, but I try not to take work home."
He said his job actually helped keep his life in perspective.
“This job brings you face to face with your own mortality,” he said. “It shows you how fragile life really is and how not to worry about trivial things but to spend time with the important ones, like family.”
"Sometimes you can rationalize some of the bad stuff off as what's happened to this person is their own fault, and it doesn't seem quite so bad." he said. "It's worse when something has been perpetrated upon them, like a crime or a drunk driver."
To prevent bringing his work home, Brown said he used personal coping mechanisms to deal with upsetting times on the ambulance.
The "bad stuff" could be any injury, illness or problem possible to the human body or psyche. Brown said paramedics were licensed by the state of Kansas as mobile intensive care technicians. Their skills and abilities afford patients with almost every treatment available in an emergency room short of an X-ray machine.
Although Douglas County's ambulance personnel have received state and national awards for outstanding
"We know what to do," he said.
"We train, we continue to train, we do more training on top of that and then we train some more."
service and competence, Brown said the only secret to success was continuous training.
However, he said all of the training possible could not prepare anyone for some of the atrocities that most paramedics eventually witness.
Until he arrived on a scene, Brown said he never actually knew what each call would involve. Often, the scene can be nightmarish.
"The gore really doesn't seem all that bad any more," he said. "You hit the scene, you do your job, you get him to the hospital, and it's only afterward that you have a chance to say, 'Mary God, what did I just see?'"
Jim Murray, DCAS training officer, said Brown disciplined himself with a healthy diet and fitness program. He said Brown's commitment to physical health has a positive impact on his delivery of patient care.
"His recent promotion to assistant supervisor shows the system's faith in him." Murray said.
In addition to the promotion,
Brown was DCAS's April employee
of the month. He used the $25 award
for identification books for his
wife, Fam.
Although Pam is able to spend time with her husband 20 days a month, she described the 10 work days with his DCAS partner as a second marriage. Brown agreed that spending 24 hours a day with someone for several months, or even years, formed intimate relationships.
"We got along real well and had a lot of fun working together," Larson said. "I think we were too much alike
A 'Second Marriage'
Mark Larson was partnered with Brown for about three years before they were split up by management.
that we probably weren't good for each other."
He said when partners worked well as a team, the work not only improved but also became easier to maintain and anticipate the other's next action.
Brown said he and Larson would watch movies during free time and could memorize and recount entire dialogues. He remembered one night when the two went on a domestic trip to a resort in Florida, watching "Young Frankenstein."
"Mark and I had just seen this one scene where the actress answers a question dramatically, saying, 'He's not my boyfriend,'." Brown said. "When Mark was questioning the patient, she said the exact same line from the movie. We both couldn't help cracking up."
Larson said Brown had an unhappy habit of hacking into things with the ambulance when they worked together.
"Before that was all over, he had backed into a police car, a yellow marker post on campus and a car in a fraternity parking lot." Larson said. "But I'll give him credit, the yellow marker had some snow on it."
At 6:40 p.m., the ambulance station speaker interrupted dinner in front of the television set with a report of an injury accident several miles out in front of the house. There is uncertain whether the accident was in Douglas or Leavenworth county.
Three minutes later Brown pulled the ambulance out of the station. He asked Rector to request an additional ambulance from Leavenworth County, unsure of which agency would handle the call.
The ambulance headed north over the Kansas River, the dispatcher informed them that no blood was found and to the scene from Leavenworth.
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"Of course," Brown said, "when you care enough to send the very best, send DAS."
Intern
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Ed Andrzewjski, a television major at Columbia, served an internship in the audio-visual department
at the Harris Bank in Chicago.
workers about their given field of interest, they also benefit from the advice, guidance and experience of people who've been in their position before. And there's the added plus of great networking opportunities for the future," she said.
"My internship here is giving me the chance to apply what I've learned in school to a profession. I'm using advanced equipment, and I am getting involved in everything from editing to pre- and post-production," he said.
At the bank, Charles Perkins, an assistant vice president who frequently hires interns, said, "I look for an intern who can work well under pressure; someone who is bright, aggressive and a self-initiator who can solve problems and adapt to his environment. Here, we need someone who can communicate effectively and adapt to almost any situation."
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