OB - The Michigan Daily Weeke. ,aga Ti- ursday prl 3, 1997 Huron River. Emergency medicine involves an Continued from Page 3B extensive range of people, including physicians, residents, nurses, medical Lowell then went into the dispatch students, paramedics and clerks. room. Dr. Michael Roebuck, an emergency Just outside the emer- medicine resident and member of the gency room and down a survival flight crew, said the whole corridor is a small F process begins in the field. room faintly lit by the "The concept of emergency med- glow of an electronic icine starts with the paramedics panel, a gray TV monitor in the field, in the home, at the displaying two helicopters on emergency scene." the roof and the luster of plaques Upon leaving the dis- adorning the wall. The plaques are -'* patch room, Lowell awards for consecutive successful s. .,,,>' stepped into a waiting flights. _ room to explain to a The University hospitals' helicopter distraught wife that it service, which began in 1983, has flown would be a while before her more than 15,000 missions without an husband, who was brought to the emer- accident. The helicopters average just gency room intoxicated, will be allowed more than three flights per day. to leave. "I like the fact that we are able to take After explaining to the woman that things to other her husband people;" said can't leave Mary Ingalls, who reuntil he's dispatches the M sobered up, flights. "We're gets going L o w e Ill able to do things headsed back nobody else to theremer- does:' elee p ca y gency room to But Ingalls is With spinal and check on a quick to point out young man the importance of head injuries." who dislocat- the crew's safety, ed his shoul- which she said is - Kelly Wagner der playing paramount, tak- Paramedic trainee b a s k e t b a l l . ing precedence Lowell relo- over the patient's, cated the because other means of reaching the man's shoulder earlier in the night accident scene can usually be found. after "consciously sedating" him with Sometimes flights are grounded drugs to relax his muscles, relieve his because of dense fog rising from the pain and allow him to breathe on his M'Sound and Fury DEAN DID IT 'HIS WAY' University Hospital doctors discuss current patients' conditions and field calls concerning incoming patients. own. In the room next to the young man my adrenaline gets going real high, The young man, still groggy from the a paramedic and a student trainee especially with spinal and head drugs, asked Lowell if he already relo- were about to lift a patient onto a injuries." cated his shoulder. stretcher. It was 11:15 p.m. and Lowell's shift is Lowell, who had put the shoulder The student, Kelly Wagner, said nearly finished. Lowell made a few last back in place by swiftly shoving his treating patients at accident scenes is rounds, ensuring that the patients were arm upward, said the young man's not frightening but extremely excit- stable until the next attendant physician ignorance of the procedure was evi- ing. arrived. dence of the excellent combination of "I've always wanted to do it," "One of the biggest potential liabili- drugs. Wagner said. "It doesn't scare me, but See PATIENTS, Page 7B BY DEAN BAKOPOULOS Last April, I lambasted former Daily a place I worked, but don't wish to men- Editor in Chief and Weekend, etc. tion; columnist Mike Rosenberg for his ten- Or weekends, when I puked on my dency to bluster and blather on with shoes, sentimental wish-wash about graduat- under the guise of "relieving tension." ing and being a senior. To think, I did all that, This April, I fear I've caught the dis- and may I say, outfoxed my R.A.- ease of college newspaper but more, much more than this, columnists around the I've got my B.A. country: "The Oh-no- I-have-one-month- (Bridge) left-of-school-and-am- getting-inexplicably- - Yeah, there were sentimental-about some folks, my - d ay s- a s,- a- at The Michigan Wolverine (or other Review, favorite mascot)- who attacked me, with syndrome.' neo-conservative goo.. Indeed, I have the And death threats came disease, despite wanting from the College G-O-P to flee Ann Arbor at the when I erased their writings first hint of May. And so, with a stream o' peel without further adieu, I present a But let my columns show, senior drinking song, a toasting tune how much campus conserva- for all seniors making their way into tives blow, the world outside Ann Arbor, bache- because I still got my B.A.! lor's degree firmly in hand. (Lyrics here are, of course, personalized; feel Verse 3: free to add your own lyrics and sing while standing on the table of your I have, 122 credits, favorite watering hole.) I've taken care of all my business. And now as this beer subsides, "My B.A." - sung to the tune of Frank I see I spent my dough on pints o' Sinatra's "My Way." Guiness. To think, I'm so in debt, Verse One: I have no job, I'm just apoor slop, And now, with April here, But so, oh what the hell, I've got my I find I face, graduation. B.A.! 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