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Old 04-07-2005, 10:20 AM   #12
Troubleshooter
The urban Jane Goodall
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Florida
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Originally Posted by Nightsong
Cabulance is the reference to the fact that a fair bit of the teams time is spent not on emercency calls but on running medicaid/medicare patients back and forth from home to treatments. They become glorified cabbies. Even their dispatch refers to those as cabulance runs.
One of my friends here got out of that business because of that and drunks. He'd gotten tired of hauling DUI victim's (the ones not drunk) bodies out of the cars and fighting with the drunks to stay on the gurney.

Between that and the peanutbutterball monkeys he was about ready to start self-medicating.
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