Is there a Doctor on the plane??

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I had an experience yesterday that was a bit "is there a Doctor on the plane?", although obviously not as impressive and I was wondering if anyone else has had similar, even if it was just something very minor, maybe a bit niche that you happened to know or can do.
I popped into our local petrol station to collect a parcel yesterday and there was a man holding a piece of paper and speaking to the attendant. As walked in the attendant looked at me and said I have no idea what he is saying he doesn't speak English, I don't suppose you know what he is saying do you?
The man turned to me and started speaking an EU language I speak very well.
Directions given, all sorted.
I am not talking about an actual Doctor on a plane situation here or anything lifesaving just a moment when someone said "I don't suppose you happen to know ............. do you?"

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Oh wow - incredible - especially being 7 and saving a toddler. Well done - you totally deserve a meddle xx

Years ago I was walking down the street and overheard a very distressed woman talking on the phone outside a courier office- she was saying that she had to get a document to Brisbane (1800km away) by the afternoon or the sale of her house would fall through but that she needed her signature witnessed by a JP and the JP who was meant to meet her at the courier’s office had cancelled. The courier had to leave at 9am and it was 8.50am.

I’m a JP and witnessed it for her-all sorted! She did the biggest happiest ugly cry I have ever seen.

This brings to mind a story I read years ago about how there was a swarm of bees outside a shop in central London and some guy whose hobby was bee keeping happened to work in the office over the road. He kept his bee suit in his office in case of bee emergencies and that was his day to shine!!

I was working in cardiology.

On a train and they put out a call for a doctor, nurse, first aider to go to the buffet.

I got to the buffet and the staff member laughed at me, just then a man came in and said, "I'm a Dr, where is the emergency?"

The staff member stopped laughing and called someone on the train. I told the Dr my job and he wanted me to go with him so we raced up the train to find, very drunk man.

I think I might have got a free coffee.

Got off the tube to someone feeling faint, got her to lie on the floor, handbag under her head and her feet up on a bench.

I've defibbed a few people, but that was part of my job, when it was the father of a cardiologist I worked with I got a bottle of champagne.

Years ago driving along and all cars ahead stopped, someone said I couldn’t carry on driving as loads of horses out on the road. I’m an ex riding instructor and got out and there were 30 plus horses out. I got someone to open the gate, then 1 by 1 dragged each horse by their mane back into the field. The police turned up at and handed me a lead rope after the first few which made things a bit easier. I’d got about 10 left when the stable girls arrived in a panic and I left them to it, they said I’d done amazing and couldn’t believe I’d manage to catch a couple in particular. There was a proper crowd watching and I remember hearing someone say “that woman’s got horses running through her veins”. 😁

Years ago, I volunteered at a European Masters Swimming Championship.

First I was asked to assist a man who somehow got seprarated from his wife, she had their Oyster Cards and their mobile, neither of them spoke English. I had barely finished helping him, when another volunteer came asking me to come with them.
I said I'll be there in a minute, she said "No, right now please, just follow the paramedics". Turned out one of the older participants had collapsed after getting out the pool and he only spoke German. Could I please talk to him, reassure him, etc.

Turned out, he had had a cardiac arrest but pool side and right in front of the showers, which were open to the pool. Under the shower was a synchronised swimming team consisting of a doctor, two nurses and a physio. They immediately gave CPR.
The man survived and his coach told me the following that the patient wanted to be discharged in time to swim the relay on the last day - They told him: No chance.

He was quite confused and a bit agitated - who wouldn't be. I did my best, one of the Ambulance Crew was Swiss and as I later found out, one of his doctors was German too.
His wife came to me the following day, thanking me profusely when all I had done was to talk to someone in need.

Dd was on a transatlantic flight where they asked for a dr and no dr on board. They then asked for a nurse or paramedic and still nobody responded. They then in desperation asked for a midwife and still nobody responded. The passenger died sadly. Plane had been nearly empty.

@Ilikeadrink14 - Ds already had the small box of Lego in hand on way to till when we bumped into the couple who were struggling. We stayed about 20-30 mins translating and they just took the box from him and paid for the delay and him being bored I guess

My best friend has epilepsy. Many years ago she had a seizure at.the top of my stairs and fell halfway down on to the landing.. I called an ambulance and went to hospital with her.
I felt so useless that I didn't know any first aid. Six months later I did a FA course in the village hall. The very next day there was an incident at my friends house which caused her to have a seizure and I knew how to put her in the recovery position..♥️
Im now a trained first aider at work. One day we were training and doing our resuscitation training on the dolls in the playground. It was bin collection day. All the binmen were watching us over the hedge!!

I did an emergency first aid training with work. Really useful and I feel it’s important for everyone to have that knowledge - especially because a few weeks later, a colleague who had been on the course with me, dealt with someone who had suffered cardiac arrest and saved their life. Still gives me chills thinking about that.

Not me but I met a lady on a course who had been a pathologist for years and said she was very out of practice with whole patients. She said she was on a plane and was terrified when she heard the call for a doctor, but just as she was about to press her call button someone else (who turned out to be an a&e consultant) got there first.

Another language one. Driving through the Netherlands trying to find our way to the ferry, running late. We were in a British car. Stopped and asked someone for directions. He looked annoyed and said, “Sorry I don’t speak English.”

Switched languages (without much hope) and asked if he could speak Norwegian, at which point he suddenly remembered how to speak English and gave us perfect directions. Guess he just didn’t like English speakers or thought they were lazy for not knowing another language.

I have a metal bottle opener on my keyring - mainly because it's nice and heavy - which has been pressed into service on similar occasions!

I've had two 'medical related' interventions.

Once where a lady tried to take her own life and jumped in front of a lorry. I was the only other person around. I'm a nurse. She was badly injured but survived.

The second was an elderly man who had fallen at a crossing and was sat in the road. There were lots of people around but no one had approached him. I helped him then shamed the 30 or so people that had just stood there because I was angry at them.

The man in the seat next to the lady refused to move so friend was sat on the floor with her for hours

Who DOES this? (I mean refusing to move in an emergency.)

FWIW as a bit of a clue a very very dated inventory for one airline here,

www.britishairways.com/health/docs/during/Aircraft_Medical_Kit.pdf

Thank you, @notimagain

Loving all of these stories where people are in the right place at the right time, as well as The Doctor ones of course.
Another language one from me.
We were at a Christmas Market in Manchester and came across a very distressed child of about 6 with 2 security people trying to speak to him. I stopped to see if a middle aged woman would fare better than 2 big blokes and he did speak to me but in German. My German is purely menu based but it is actually DH's first language but the child refused to speak to him so DH was telling me what to say to calm him down etc until the parents were found.

Quite a bit of stuff…inc “bum relief gel” 👍😁

Doesn't it say 'BURN relief gel'? 🤔

I was surprised to see 12 tablets of imodium! I mean, that is a bad curry if 12 people go down with explosive diarrhoea! Maybe they do need the bum relief gel after all 😆

I was at a spin class at Pure Gym. A man in the class hadn't tightened the handlebars up properly on his bike and they fell off 5 minutes into the class. He went over the handlebars and landed on his head. I was a lifeguard at the time working at a nearby leisure centre. Unfortunately the spin instructor didn't have a clue what to do with this man. I looked after him, asked for ice packs. I wanted him to go to A&E but he refused and he did seem ok. I probably spent 30 or 40 minutes with him.

Another time while abroad, a man from another country asked me how to use the ATM as it was only in the local language (it was a long time ago). Luckily I spoke both the local language and his, so I was able to help.

Oh possibly....think I need new glasses. 😂

Yes I was thinking the bum relief gel might be in case of bad diarrhoea - in which case I hope they would expect the patient to apply it themselves , not the poor doctor flying back from Spain!

Paediatric nurse here. I have not a clue what to do with an adult. 😂

@Toddlerteaplease being a paediatric nurse (albeit spent time in very specialised area that included adults) gets me out of many a show and tell situation with over 18's wanting to show me various rashes and lumps and bumps.
serious face and a simple 'i'd get struck off if i even looked let alone commented' speech seems to work 😂