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Like someone else here said I think the consensus here is that if you can justify a Visual examination by saying that it will definitively alter your course of action by doing it, then one in good conscious should be doing one. I don't feel right basing my call on whether or not to perform one on sex "females might sue more". I had a scenario very similar to the poster above with a Male, a slight language barrier, and a Catheter. In this case I was in training (not yet cleared for Pt Care) and the Male Pt was complaining of throbbing Groin pain. We were asking him all sorts of questions, Hernia, Exercise, had he been to the hospital lately. I said "should we take a look?" the crew members I was training with both agreed " I'm not taking a look!" "You want to Go Ahead". I was embarrassed and I felt I did not have their support, so if I had found something I felt I might be on my own. So I didn't look. We arrived at the hospital which was two blocks from the scene, and it turned out the guy had a catheter tube that had been in for over two weeks and was badly infected. I mean we were asking this guy everything, and he didn't say one thing about a Catheter. We felt pretty stupid giving report to the ER Nurse and Not having had any knowledge of this. Now in this case, would it have made any difference, other than us saving face? Probably not. But it made me think right from the very beginning of my EMT career about to expose or not expose. I for one am glad the OP brought this up as I am new here and have not read a lot of old threads. On a side note someone posted that a friend of theirs was fired for what seemed to be a justified exposure, even though he was found to have been justified. That is disheartening, I have to base my judgment on what is best for the Pt. and if I think taking their pants down might make the difference even if it's just to Upgrade the call to "Emergent" that's what I should do. Shame on the company for not standing by their employee. ...and shame on his wife for not standing by him while he was out of work.

A late afternoon article from the Edmonton Journal says in part: “EDMONTON — Stephen Duckett will no longer serve as CEO and president of Alberta Health Services, the board announced late Wednesday afternoon. The decision is effective immediately, and at least three board members are expected to resign in protest, chairman Ken Hughes said at a news conference. “The board would like to thank Dr. Duckett for his dedication to improving Alberta’s health system during a challenging time of transition,” Hughes said.” Full article: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Stephen+Duckett+loses/3878209/story.html#ixzz16GBcB9CE At least 3 board members are expected to resign in protest? Protest of what? They didn’t get cookies? And thanking Dr. Duckett for his dedication… well, … ummmm.. And, back to Dr. Sherman being removed from caucus… Liepert says he doesn’t want an apology, but he wants Sherman to retract the statements he made about Liepert being rude. When I look back on Liepert’s term as Health Minister, I remember him blaming nurses for the budget problems because of overtime paid (remember when the PC’s cut how many nursing jobs, and now Alberta is short staffed in nursing positions?) and when several public service doctors resigned at the same time, he put a gag order on their severance packages, so that they couldn’t say why they left? (July 2008) . If I tried hard enough, I could probable google a few things and see what dirt I could come up with. It’s only slander or libel if it’s not true, right?

Well last night was the vote. I went from nominated to accepted Starting in January I will be the new 1st LT. Get sworn in Jan 8th so all is good in the world now Already started my ICS stuff. Doing my 400 in Dec. Already got the 100 200 and 700 out of the way online now just have to do the class time ones. CEBRN and Hazmat are this weekend followed by Rail Saftey with NJTransit the following. Then its all good, I will have all the prerequisites done.