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Shown below, is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by an 86 year old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times. ________________________________________ Dear Sir: I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three nanoseconds must have elapsed between his presenting the check and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honor it.. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my entire pension, an arrangement which, I admit, has been in place for only eight years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account $30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank. My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally answer your telephone calls and letters, but when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, pre-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become. From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person. My mortgage and loan repayments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank, by check, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate. Be aware that it is an OFFENSE under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope. Please find attached an Application Contract which I require your chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative. Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Notary Public, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof. In due course, at MY convenience, I will issue your employee with a PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modeled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Let me level the playing field even further. When you call me, press buttons as follows: IMMEDIATELY AFTER DIALING, PRESS THE STAR (*) BUTTON FOR ENGLISH #1. To make an appointment to see me. #2. To query a missing payment. # 3. To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there. #4 To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping #5. To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature. #6. To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home. #7. To leave a message on my computer, a password to access my computer is required. Password will be communicated to you at a later date to that Authorized Contact mentioned earlier. #8. To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through 7. #9. To make a general complaint or inquiry. The contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. #10. This is a second reminder to press * for English. While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call. Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement. May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous New Year? Your Humble Client And remember: Don't make old People mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off.

After several weeks of work I am finally finished with our class video. Everybody in my class approved the video for public consumption, so I thought I would share a bit of what I have been doing over the past six semesters. A side note: We all hope to graduate in May. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJbQZmI33Y Take care, chbare.

http://www.respiratorytherapy.net/training/ Unlike Paramedics; RTs programs are only available as a Degree Program (AS, BS, and MS). So, we (EMS) can't compare. We (EMS) need to mirror these Practitioner's Educational Requirements. Good luck as a RT; prosperous career... Paramedics should be only available as a Degree Program (AS, BS, and MS).

OK, since your clearly not going too show us you're boobs, I'll answer your question. The problem with going straight to medic school is the educational system is not set up for it. Let me explain. When you leave EMT school, you are expected to be `barely competent``. It is expected that you will be heading out to the world to gain experience and get comfortable with the following skills: History taking Touching people Talking too people Dealing with vomit/blood/urine/feces "out of the box" (or what we call "critical") thinking Because these skills are expected to be obtained through experience (not on your practicum as there is not enough time). They are an unwritten prerequisite for Paramedic school. That is the real problem, Paramedic schools are not designed to facilitate basic human interaction skills, those are expected to be there when you start. So my REAL answer is, it is individual based. If you have worked customer service or interacted with the public on a personal level in the past then you may already have those skills. So my suggestion would be to go start school. However, if you are like 90% of the students I have gotten lately, and have locked yourself in the basement for the last 10 yrs playing videogames and depriving yourself of public interaction, then chances are you have no human interaction skills and need to get out there to develop them. Paramedic practicum is not the place to develop those as your preceptor will fail you, and working as a medic is also a poor time too find out you are uncomfortable being in "personal" space. But whatever you choose don't ever let anyone convince you that you need to master EMT skills prior to entering Medic school. You only have to master life skills.