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For my first clinical shift in the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital, the scene I was presented with was nothing as I had imagined. The atmosphere was actually astonishingly calm and eerily quiet. It seemed as if all those shows on television about mergency rooms being hectic places with people shouting orders was nothing more than Hollywood at work. How was it possible though, that patients in critical condition caused no uproar from those trying to keep their lives from being cut short? It seems this question was answered when I saw how efficient and effective the phsicians and nurses were in taking care of the patients, in that most of the procedures were well-understtod and well-practiced, to the point where they could be performed in unison with minimal verbal communicaion, let alone shouting. In my first shift, I was able to learn a lot about he general operation of an emergency room and where my role as an EMT would fit into the scope of emergency medical services.

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