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Lecture meaning you are still in school? (yes i know this is under students) As most know, I am not great at consoling... or the emotional stuff, but I do wanna say this: If your school put you through this damaging gore fest, they should be held accountable! Yes... at times we in EMS do get subjected to decapitation, deadly bleeds, abused children, SIDS, etc etc. We see these things in small doses, and sometimes need time off imediatly after to seek counsil to learn how to deal with the emotions attatched to these experiences. There is no goddam reason to present a "slide show" of picture after picture, of dismembered or deceased patients in some mindless attempt to "teach" students. Shame on your school, and shame on the coroner. What a frickin outrage! You have all the grounds in the world to do whatever you like about this. but at the very least, you MUST get a petition going to end this behavior. I for one as a professional educator, and student of 2 colleges, and 2 universities with 4 years prehospital education, would LOVE to write a letter in support of any action you would like to take. Someone else here will help you deal with the emotional trauma you have encurred, since i suck at that Man this got me fired up for some reason...... Bullshit

I was thinking of substituting the name Kenny with Dwyane on some of these > LITTLE KENNY ON MATH (Part 1) > > A teacher asks her class, 'If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence, and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?' > She calls on little Kenny. > He replies, 'None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot.' > > The teacher replies, 'The correct answer is 4, but I like your thinking.' > > Then little Kenny says, 'I have a question for YOU Miss Rogers'. > > There are 3 women sitting on a bench having ice cream: > One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. > The second is gobbling down the top and sucking on the cone. > The third is biting off the top of the ice cream. > Which one is married?' > > The teacher, blushing a great deal, replied, 'Well, I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone.' > > To which Little Kenny replies, 'The correct answer is 'The one with the wedding-ring on, 'but I like your thinking.' > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON MATH (Part 2) > > > > > Little Kenny returns from school and says he got an 'F' in arithmetic. > > 'Why'? asks the father. > > 'The teacher asked 'How much is 2 x 3', so I said 6', replies Kenny. > > 'But that's right' says his father. > > 'Yeah, but then she asked me, 'How much is 3 x 2' > > 'What's the fuckin' difference?' asks the father. > > 'That's what I said' replied Kenny. > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON ENGLISH > > > > > Little Kenny goes to school, and the teacher says, 'Today we are going to learn multi-syllable words in our class. Does anybody have an example of a multi-syllable word?' > > Kenny says 'Mas-tur-bate..' > > Miss Rogers smiles and says, 'Wow, Kenny, that's a real mouthful.' > > Little Kenny says, 'No, Miss Rogers, you're thinking of a blow-job..' > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON GRAMMAR > > > > > Little Kenny was sitting in the class one day. > All of a sudden, he needed to go to the bathroom... > He yelled out, 'Miss Jones, I need to go take a piss!!' > > The teacher replied, 'Now Kenny, that is NOT the proper word to use in this situation. The correct word you want to is, 'I need to Urinate'. Please use the word 'ur-i-nate' in a sentence correctly, and I will allow you to go.' > > Little Kenny thinks for a bit, and then says, 'YOUR'E AN EIGHT, but if you had bigger tits, you'd be aTEN' > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON GRAMMAR (Part 2) > > > > > One day, during lessons on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show of hands from those who could use the word 'beautiful' in the same sentence twice. > > First, she called on little Suzie, who responded with, 'My father bought my mother a beautiful dress, and she looked beautiful in it.' > 'Very good, Suzie,' replied the teacher.. > > She then called on little Michael. > 'My mommy planned a beautiful banquet, and it turned out beautifully.' > > She said, 'Excellent, Michael, excellent.' > Then the teacher reluctantly called on little Kenny. > > 'Last night at the dinner table, my sister told my father that she was pregnant, and he said 'Beautiful, just fuckin' beautiful'. > > > > > LITTLE KENNY ON GETTING OLDER > > > > > Little Kenny was sitting on a park bench, munching on one candy bar after another. > > After the 6th bar, a man on the bench across from him said, > 'Son, you know eating all that candy isn't good for you. It will give you acne, rot your teeth, and make you fat.' > > Little Kenny replied, 'My grandfather lived to be 107 years old.' > > The man asked, 'Did your grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a time'? > > Little Kenny answered, 'No, he just minded his own fuckin' business..

I am at a loss here. Why are people vilifying the coroner or the school here? This class was designed for people who will be working in this field. They will see things like this and possibly much more. If this coroner whipped out this slide show at a high school class or for some other non-medical audience, then I agree it would be inappropriate. As a provider or a prospective employer, I would much rather know NOW if someone can handle the horrors we sometimes see on this job. These things are part of the job. What is inappropriate about showing them? Now I have no problem with the school or instructor pulling a student aside and having a heart to heart with them. Make sure they are OK, but also ask some tough questions. To me, this is like a firefighter who is afraid of going into a burning building. It's at the core of our job, and we need to not only deal with these things, but push our feelings aside to mitigate whatever situation we were called to handle. Not everyone can do this, and that's why those in this field are a special breed. Better to know now than after you've been hired and realize you made a huge mistake.

To those thinking a petition should be started instead of counselling the student, did you consider any other alternatives first? Did the slides have any educational value? Perhaps knowing how to recognise specific things or how not to mistake lividity for other conditions or partial decapitations or recognizing SIDS or any number of other issues which have been issues noticed by the coroner. Or perhaps simply letting the school know it affected her instead of rushing off to start trouble. Maybe the school would actually care about students being affected. Gasp.

Lila, When you decided to get into EMS, just what did you really expect the job to entail? Why did you decide to get into EMS in the first place? Did you walk in with blinders on, or did you really look into the field and see what our world REALLY looks like? Forgive me if this seems too 'blunt'. This is not an attack on you in any form! I highly doubt that your school, instructor or the coroner (or anyone else involved in this presentation) set out to intentionally scar you emotionally with this presentation. Having been in the field for as long as I have, I can tell you that most of what we deal with in EMS is 'ugly'. When we're on scene, we don't have the luxury to call 'time out' and run out to the truck to regroup and get ourselves composed. Could it be that the coroner's only intention was to help desensitize you in the classroom so that you dont 'fall to pieces' on the street? There are going to be many times in your EMS career that people are going to depend on you to keep your shit together and be the 'rock' that they can cling to when their life is in total chaos. This isn't going to be possible if you're going to fall apart because the call involves kids, the elderly, the young, or whatever demographic tugs at your heart strings! Yes, the pictures were probably very brutal, haunting and extremely disturbing. But remember, on scene you CAN'T go running from the house weeping your eyes out. You HAVE to grit your teeth, roll up your sleeves and get in the middle of the shit storm and do what you were educated to do! We don't get to pick and choose what calls we are dispatched to. We don't get to only do the 'sunshine and belly rubs' calls that leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling inside. You're going to go to calls where some abusive jackass man has beaten the ever-loving shit out of his wife/girlfriend/fiancée....you'll go to calls where some alcoholic mother has beaten her kids within an inch of their lives, or worse. Depending on what type of environment you're in, you may even get the call for some innocent grandfather who just got 3 bullets in his chest from some strung out junkie who just shot him for a measly $12.00... You'll be dispatched to the MVA in the middle of the night that was caused by a drunk driver, who just killed a family of four coming home from Grandma's house...and they only get a few cuts and bruises. You might even get dispatched to the depressed person, who's decided that life isn’t worth living; and decides to deep throat a shotgun, and ends up splattering his brains all over the ceiling and walls. Yes, EMS can be a very UGLY world, but it's what we do. Again, this is not a personal attack Lila, it's the blunt, brutal reality of EMS...

I would be happy to answer some questions. However due to the grammatical errors and your newness to the forum I'm not sure if this is legit. Post you questions and I will gladly attmept to answer them.

What's with Floridia firemonkeys these days? They're getting arrested more often than the Dalllas Cowboys. http://www.sunnewspapers.net/articles/llne...3080&bnpg=0 Sarasota EMT's charges amended SARASOTA -- Charges against a 28-year-old North Port man accused of sexually battering a 15-year-old girl known to him have been amended. Christopher Kilduff, a Sarasota County Fire Department EMT, has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Kilduff, of the 5000 block of Brack Ave., was arrested this week and originally charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and a third-degree felony sex offense. However, the charges have been amended to lewd and lascivious act on a child, and use of a child in a sexual act. Kilduff remained in the Sarasota County Jail Friday without bond. A Sarasota police officer arrested Kilduff Wednesday after the teen said he allegedly made her perform sex acts with him last week at her Sarasota home and at a nearby playground, according to a police report. I wonder if the girl is an Explorer or Junior Firefighter.

Mobey, I think that this genius is refering to the fact that he finally received a refund for his paramedic course. Its unknown why he included a link about the strike itself, to give some background on the strike I suppose. Oddly, the story he links to is almost a year old. Bizarre. I guess they don't write news stories on fools who bleet about how unfair life and hold their breath until someone pays up. Hopefully lifeguard will take his refund, and never post on this site sgain.

Link has nothing to do with heading. Do you have any actual proof? Considering you failed due to incompetence, I highly doubt this is true,

You do not have the experience to present some of the ideas suggested. Why not make it simple, and write about what you know; ie..... what if you wrote about your clinical experiences from the student's perspective: 1. How could those third-rides have been a more educational experience ? 2. Were you treated like one of the family, or like a burden ? 3. Is there some equipment/procedures you could have trained on in the classroom prior to your third ride that would have made it better ? 4. Were there identified objectives for your clinicals, were those objectives met ? 5. Should your clinical time have been longer or shorter ?

I'm always surprised when I read about someone "asking" someone to have sex with them. Does anyone really do that? I don't think I've ever asked anyone to have sex with me. I mean, you don't ask. You just do it! And if you have to ask, then you probably shouldn't be doing it! I know I've never had to ask any of my cousins!

1) No 2) No 3) None 4) Lots 5) Some secondary arrests (hypothermia, advanced pregnancy and certian overdoses only)

British Columbia Paramedic student granted full refund because of 2009 labour strike. The 3,500 CUPE 873 members, who had been on strike since April 1, were seeking improved staffing levels, wage parity with other emergency response workers and a multi-year contract Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/04/10/bc-paramedics-talks.html#ixzz17dLMtrM9