A while back, we talked about the teasing nickname Billy Badass, thrown around in the military to refer to someone a little too gung ho. In the firefighting and EMT professions, the equivalent name is Ricky Rescue. This is part of a complete episode...
Gorked is paramedic and hospital slang for a patient who is unconscious or profoundly out of it, often after an overdose or heavy anesthesia. Ben from Colorado says he would use it with colleagues, but not with a patient’s family. A related...
