Well, this particular method is usually useful when transporting someone who's had some sudden spinal trauma. But yeah, I've had a decent share of the other kind too.

[He lowers her easily, until she's deposited into the comfortable caress of a wheelchair. It isn't one with handles on the back; he'd never demean her by trying to push her around.]

One of the guys I work with turns into animals. Every time he gets a cold, suddenly we're one sneeze away from having to haul a whale out of the kitchen.