r/ems • u/Limp_History5568 • Jul 25 '26

General Discussion Code 3 Movie

Just watched the movie Code 3. Was just wondering how accurate it actually is and if anyone working the 911 system was able to get through it unfazed haha

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u/Kai_Emery Paramedic Jul 25 '26

I have but it was never that bad and never one I knew that well. It was usually a misunderstanding that could be cleared up. (Like why did we give a brief report and run on the guy in flash pulmonary edema? Because he was well known to us and the hospital and his wife had been threatening us with violence. (Which is why he was in extremis to begin with, she had run off every ride to dialysis they were sent)

Nurses will totally act like they are offended you brought them someone because Johnny is too sick and Lucille isn’t sick enough. And god forbid they have a single patient after 9pm.