Golden Cockup Award....

A necessary evil of our job is refresher training and training to expand our knowledge and it is during one of these training courses that this little gem comes from. During a part of the course we were doing scenarios where there was more patients than practitioners to treat the patients. I was voluntold to be a patient and given a list of injuries namely I was an UNCONSCIOUS patient with a lower arm injury.

We went outside and positioned ourselves into the most akward places we could find so as to create merry havoc for our "rescurers". I was the first one they were to come across coming out the door but every single one of them (5 or 6 cant remember which) went flying past me towards the other patients. Needless to say i took the opportunity to doze off...

Ten minutes later the rescurers decided it was time to "rescue" me and woke me from my slumber crying out "are you ok, are you ok, whats wrong with you". In my half asleep state the immortal words came out "I've hurt my arm.... Oh wait forget I said that". This results in one very confused rescurer and the instructor calling out "Well done Shane!"

And that is how I became the proud owner of the Golden Cockup Award.