Gotta say that if the medical personnel couldn't tell that they were injecting into a prosthetic arm I probably would be a little wary of them doing anything that affected my health.
I do have some experience of Russian ambulance staff cos one of my girlfriend's friends is a doctor. One thing that is really quite impressive is that, unlike in the UK or Portugal and, I suspect, most countries, every ambulance has a fully qualified doctor on it. So this guy that I met studied a medical degree for ten years to hold this position of being a member of the first response team or whatever they call it.
That's the good news. The less good news is that there are not nearly enough ambulances, I can't remember the precise figures but he told me that there should be, say 10,000 ambulances to serve the Chelyabinsk area but actually there are only 3,700. Also, a little less reassuring was that, despite speaking only fairly basic English, this guy had troubled to learn how to be able to say to me "I hate Russia these days, there are too many blacks" and then we had to shut the door of her (my GF's) bedroom and maintain a look- out in case her parents or brother tried to come in while this guy was shooting up. Simultaneously with his medical career had also been a long career of addiction to various hard drugs - which I can't and don't really judge someone for in itself, but, as a rule, I would prefer that if someone was gonna have my life in their hands, that they weren't totally off their head at the time.
He'd also become extremely jaded and - at that time it was spice that had become very big, both in that area and as a problem, overtaking heroin which had always been the main issue (and I believe has become so again since then) - and he was saying that they would turn up somewhere and the guy who had rang for the ambulance would be screaming going "I've lost my legs, I can't find them" and Dimitri (or whatever the fuck his name was) would be like "Oh for fuck's sake I can't be arsed with this shit" and he was pretty much saying that he hated everyone and he barely be bothered to help them.
If any of you read that book that Lewis put out called Takeaway which was written by a jaded ex-ambulance worker I guess - well, this guy was kinda like that but a million times worse I suppose.
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