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I like Annie, she's silly! (so is the person wrote that about MR NORRIS...SIR!)

Has anyone heard about the NREMT will be discontinued in KY or across the U.S. at the first of the year? An just going to state tests only? Thanks, John

While I think some people are good at being empathetic, I am not aware of any evidence that says this ability is preturnatural. Take care, chbare.

LOL! Someone gave Richard a negative! Dude, seriously... Chuck really should make an EMS movie!

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh now I understand his statement

And yet, another one. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/p...ng_statewi.html How about to expect an ambulance in less than ten minutes at any time? Why should 40 minutes even be close to acceptable? Why, as a citizen, can't I get two professionals, and get a high level of care. If they're having that much trouble, why aren't they going paid. How is providing a higher standard care doing more harm? It's all about the numbers with the politicians. Maybe setting these standards will provide a wake up call for townships that EMS is unacceptable. The only ones complaining about these standards are the volunteers and the politicians, wonder why the professional services haven't spoken up? Coincidence? Think Not.

If every other State can do it, why can't they? Well, because of the mental midgets at the First Grade Council. Opps. Sorry, read First Aid Council, my bad. They believe it's perfectly acceptable in this day and age to have volunteers respond who have nothing more than CPR training, ambulances that do not require ANY minimum amount of ANY equipment, and any response time is perfectly acceptable. These numb nuts need to go first. Then maybe we'd make some progress.

Fred the head and annie give me enough hands on. Real people are easier. :roll: My paramedic program gets lots of gripes because they require way more patient contacts and skills during clinicals than the state requires. Personally I like it because the more contacts I get under experienced people the greater chance any wrong understandings or methods should get caught and I can get corrected. Then when I'm turned loose I'll already be a full fledged paragiant.

Gets gripes for way more contact?! I wish we had even more than we do and I get about 700hrs rideout and 100 in hospital. We do hospital every other friday and I wish we did it every friday. The fact that this politician would rather have an experienced first aider than a new EMT is kinda scary. I don't know how first aid is taught down there, but up here they aren't even familiarized with any of the equipment they'd be helping an EMT with. So would I want an experienced first aider whose picked up anything he does know along the way and may have been taught wrong, or would I want an EMT who was unsure of themselves but atleast spoke the same language as me and knew the equipment? I'd take the EMT any day.

You get what you pay for..... Stop (NJ) Volunteer Ambulances, like my bumper sticker says.