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Ok so last night we were bored and started talking about the funniest calls we were on or something funny that happened during a call. Well heres the best one I heard out of all of them...... Units respond to a multi car MVA w/ multiple injures. One of those cant have enough man power kinda calls. Well on scene the units find civilians helping patients and its basically a big cluster fcuk. Once things get under control and sorted out they find a civilan helping a pretty bad patient. As they start taking over patient care the civilan states that he is a doctor and would like to contiue to help. Well the crew decides its OK, so far hes done a great job, and continues to have him lend assistance. They get the patient packaged and ready for transport and the "Doctor" is still helping and gets into the rig. Thankfully the crew decides to ask why he wants to ride along. He states that since he began patient care he would like to continue. The crew cheif thinks about that for a second and decides to let him stay due to the whole higher medical authority treatment protocol. They get to the hospital and transfer the patient to the ED. Well on the way back the "Doctor" asks for a ride and they lend it to him. So they begin to talk on the ride back and one of the EMTs decides to finally ask what kind of doctor he is............... "I'm A Veternarian" Needless to say, always ask what kind of doctor someone is before you decide they can lend assistance.

Well, here's an opposing opinion. Sort of. As was mentioned, teachers are already overwhelmed, and I really do think this is an instance where the parent should be taking the lead. That said, I realize that for religious, cultural, and personal reasons- and yes, simply being uncomfortable about the subject), many parents do NOT give enough information. So- what happens when your beliefs conflict with what the school is teaching? IE-abortion, premarital sex, birth control, masturbation, etc? If you let the kid opt out of this at school, then who is the one who suffers? The kid does not get the information they need, and they are marginalized. Of the kids who "get into trouble", I would love to see numbers on how much and what they learned in their sex education classes. I submit that the sex ed information- or lack thereof- too often is not the problem, but a lack of parental involvement/supervision is. I think these days, kids are much more aware of the consequences of unprotected sex- far more than when I was growing up. We were given very rudimentary info, yet I can think of only 1 student in my 4 years of high school who became pregnant, and this was in a school of several thousand. These days kids are exposed to so much- TV, movies, etc, and there are countless instances of teen moms and their problems, STD's, and now we even have HIV and AIDS etc. We NEVER had movies or TV shows that discussed these things on a regular basis. I think the attitudes of today's society towards sex is FAR more of a problem than a lack of available information and options, but that's just my opinion.

Need more info! What kind of Kotex pad are we talking about? There's different levels of protection. The most common are for "regular flow" and some women must use "Overnight" due to a normally (for them) heavy flow. What's the pt's GYN hx? Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom (PCOS) can have cycles that range from 1 month to 6 months without it being considered extremly abnormal due to the inconsistancies in hormone production. Those with endometriosis and adenomyosis can have similar issues. Has the pt had a baby within the past year and been breast feeding? Is she on medication of any kind? Has she had a tubal ligation? Has she been having abd pain or any other health or emotional issues during the time she's missed her cycle? I'm going to repeat pinkemtprincess' question... How long of a time period is "a day"? Changing a pad every 3 hours isn't totally abnormal, but changing it every 30 minutes to 2 hours is. It also depends on how many pads the pt goes through in the same period on what she considers a "normal" period. I've never tested how much each type of Kotex can hold, but there are a lot of things which can cause variations in a woman's cycle. Lots of questions brought up about what may be going on that a Gyn needs to address.

Funny because after my post in this thread my "rep" went to negative something. Funny, the popularity contest. Another reason why this site can suck sometimes!