Leaderboard

As an EMT yourself, how do you justify talking the patient into transport by POV over an ambulance? What criteria does a patient have to meet before you'll 'allow' them to go to the E.R. by ambulance? Since EMT's aren't able to diagnose in the field, how are you able to make this determination with any certainty? In today’s litigious society, you’re not only opening yourself and your partner up for legal action, you’re also placing your department/company in a very precarious position. If the patient has called for an ambulance, you are in NO position to try to ‘talk them out of transport’ by the ambulance they’ve called! If you respond to a scene and an ambulance has been dispatched, you’re in NO position to try to ‘talk the patient out of transport’! Yes, we all get the ‘bullshit calls’ where we’d rather not transport, but we do it anyway simply because it’s in the patients best interest. What I’m getting from the original post is that there’s some ‘bad blood’ between your department and the local EMS company. How close am I? If this is how you approach patient care; might I suggest that you either go back to school and relearn the ‘basics’ or just simply turn in your EMT license? Rather than fretting about ‘cheating the local EMS agency out of runs’, you should be praying to whatever deity you believe in that you and your department don’t end up in the courtroom facing a huge civil suit!

Can a mans hair turn white over night due to fear ? Can a man be so consumed with terror that his locks fade to grey before the morning arrives ? It is a debatable subject and one I can finally claim to have witnessed. Like everyone I have heard far fetched tales on this emotive and questionable topic and I have always discounted it as mere piffle. Last week a man was lost on the remote moors near where I reside. All of the emergency services searched for him to no avail. I by chance discovered him the following morning, hanging from a thin branch above a steep craggy abyss. The poor petrified creature had been hanging all night by his finger tips, in fear of his very life. Although a young man his hair had turned white through fright during the night.

Congratulations my dear fellow. All my life I have lived in the hope that one day somebody would break the 4 gallon barrier and create a new world record ! Mankind has produced yet another super human. Darwin, Gallileo, Newton, Einstien and Hawkins have been eclipsed by you, you big old genius you.

I work for a first responder agency. we do not transport, we have our local ems agency transport all patients. Lately I have been making all effort to NOT have to result in a patient being transported unless their life is in danger. For example I wanted on scene for about 30 minutes waiting for a patients family to come get them and transport the patient their self. I think I did the right thing, but by doing that am I cheating the local ems agency out of runs? your thoughts please