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This is the most powerful PSA for road safety I have seen in years. Please pass it on to EVERYONE you care about this holiday season. Be sure to watch THE WHOLE THING! Why cant we have adds like this in the US?

It will be you unless you are lucky enough to die young and leave a pretty corpse. I took pride in doing all I could for each patient and it never was too much trouble to come and get them off the floor at 3am. If it is too much trouble then you are in the wrong job. Never pass up an opportunity to talk to the elderly, they have seen some stuff!!

For the sake of Brevity, I am going to repost my comments on this topic from another EMS forum: I have added emphasis on the important part there, Pain Management is BOTH BLS aand ALS. BLS providers should not "wait until the medics get here" to begin to provide some relief...and and ALS providers should use both BLS and ALS interventions to control the pain once they get there. As one other poster mentioned, I probably use pain management interventions DAILY. It does deserve more discussion in initial and ongoing education.

TJZ, I found this post while working on the ‘first cup of the day’, and I have to admit that it made my blood boil! Before I continue, I want to get a disclaimer out of the way: NOTE: This is not meant as a ‘personal attack’. This IS meant to wake up those that are so self-centered that they would DARE to make a statement like what is in bold above. Disrespect of the elderly is a major pet peeve of mine. When I hear some young person (EMT, Medic, Nurse or other individual that is in any way connected to providing care and services to the elderly), using such derogatory terms as 'raisin runs', 'GOMER (Get Out of My E.R.) runs', 'Granny slings' and a host of others; I want to just reach out and do physical harm to them! These people are the reason we have the freedoms, a lot of the technology, and other things we take for granted in our daily lives. They have done more to EARN our compassion, respect and patience than most will ever do! Having actually taken the time to talk to these people, one cannot help but realize that they are 'living history' of not only our respective countries, but of humanity itself. They didn't ASK to grow old! Most don't want to call us, because they don't want to be a 'problem' or a 'bother'. There are so many that are pushed into nursing homes and extended care facilities because their family can't be bothered to take care of the very people that brought them into this world and raised them. I get so disgusted with how self absorbed and self centered people are today! We fairly bristle with anger and hostility when we think of someone treating our family members like that, yet these 'old people' are someone else's parents or grandparents! They're brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles as well. So many of the elderly are placed in these facilities and just ‘forgotten about’. Try putting yourself in their shoes for a while, and see how YOU like being treated as nothing more than an ‘inconvenience’! Who is the ‘deciding authority’ that determines who DESERVES an ambulance or care from those that have taken an oath to provide that care? We don’t decide who ‘deserves’ to be treated. We don’t discriminate based on race, color, creed, religion or age. We’re SUPPOSED’ be treating everyone with dignity and respect. This includes the elderly! REMEMBER THIS: This could be YOU some day! How are you going to feel, knowing that there are people you’re depending on to help you; thinking that just because you’re ‘old’ you don’t DESERVE to be cared for and taken care of because you’re nothing more than an ‘inconvenience’ to them…

I know that Veteran's Day and Rememberance Day has passed, but this was recently sent to me. After watching it, I felt compelled to share it here. A Pittance of Time They fought and some died for their homeland. They fought and some died, now it's our land. Look at his little child; there's no fear in her eyes. Could he not show respect for other dads who have died? Take two minutes, would you mind? It's a pittance of time, For the boys and the girls who went over. In peace may they rest, may we never Forget why they died. It's a pittance of time. God forgive me for wanting to strike him. Give me strength so as not to be like him. My heart pounds in my breast, fingers pressed to my lips, My throat wants to bawl out, my tongue barely resists. But two minutes I will bide. It's a pittance of time, For the boys and the girls who went over. In peace may they rest. May we never forget why they died. It's a pittance of time. Read the letters and poems of the heroes at home. They have casualties, battles, and fears of their own. There's a price to be paid if you go, if you stay. Freedom's fought for and won in numerous ways. Take two minutes, would you mind? It's a pittance of time, For the boys and the girls all over. May we never forget, our young become vets. At the end of the line, It's a pittance of time. It takes courage to fight in your own war. It takes courage to fight someone else's war. Our peacekeepers tell of their own living hell. They bring hope to foreign lands that hate mongers can't kill. Take two minutes, would you mind? It's a pittance of time, For the boys and the girls who go over. In peacetime our best still don battle dress And lay their lives on the line. It's a pittance of time In peace may they rest, Lest we forget why they died, Take a pittance of time. Terry Kelly Terry was a double silver medalist at the 1979 Canadian Track Championships; a member of the Canadian Track Team that competed in the 1980 Paralympics; has distinguished himself as the third blind person in the world to run the mile in under five minutes; and was honored by carrying the Olympic Torch as part of the Cross-Canada Torch Relay for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

As a former NYS EMT, I agree, the standards need to be improved. However, the classes need to be taught to the least common denominator, if you know what I mean. As I have said in the past, I think before EMS in the US undergoes any substantial changes it will need to be taken under the wing of an established organization such as ACEP. To gain any respect the standards are going to need to be brought up to college level. With the flux that medicine as a whole is in right now, I don't see that happening too soon. Just out of curiosity, why is this in the LODD forums?

Sweeet ! Unopposed free speech, my life is now complete and my work is done. I do suffer fools poorly, agreed am incapable of discussing important issues and everyone knows that, did they forget that I WAS the village idiots helper in a former life. Thanks paramedicmike: apparently my hidden messages worked out nicely and titrated and to positive effect as above quote indicate's. I do appreciate that someone was actually smart enough to pick that up, recognizing that a sudden change in tenor is very atypical of me, you must be a fan did you want my autograph ...only 10 bucks USD. YES I am akin to a Bull Mastiff when one desecrates MY most holy of days, I guess those that are not patriotic missed my entire post on Remembrance day 11/11/11. I thought I was pretty fucken clear, then I get a link to this argument for argument sake and just who is behind the verbal Diarrhea again yup the repeat offender quoting law and not one thing to do with medicine, no shock an awe here in the slightest. In my religion it is a sin not defend the honour of my ancestors. paramedicmike: Could you be a bit clearer, you disagreed that they "allowed" the boneheads to protest ? Please explain I am confused ? How would the Bobbys know what would be chanted over amplifying devices beforhand ? I sure wish I had your strength, in your story with protesters in front of you and did nothing about your right to free speech, I have another name for that and it is not tolerance. Question: Were the protesters in your event screaming "American Soldiers burn in hell," and held signs saying, "Islam will dominate" and, "Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hell." Oddly still no hypothetical answer to my query as to what would have happened if this protest was held at the Arlington Cemetery on Remembrance Day <cough> gimme a break ... get real. "British soldiers burn in hell," and held signs saying, "Islam will dominate" and, "Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hell." Yet you attempt to reprimand myself with directed comments and intended to shame me in some way because of F.O. YOU CLOWN but this was offensive to You ? Perhaps instead you should use your powers of moderation and BAN me from this site, I did break the rules visibly, well wait NO in fact paramedicmike YOU disclosed this. On another note and if you would be so kind: Here is a communication from a friend in the sandbox that monitors this site regularly, he has asked me share his views, because he is not permitted to comment directly while he is in-country. Please note well these are not my words I have been requested to forward them out of respect for my friend freedom of speech only minutes ago . cheers