CBEMT

It's not illegal by any practical definition. It sounds as though CT has some rule about who can operate an insurance business, and they've decided to define "insurance" to include a subscription service. In which case, this may be technically illegal, for as long as it takes for someone in CT to push through a change in the rule, or get a court decision, or whatever. Like I said before- if they were refusing service to 4500 out of 5500 people, someone would've noticed by now.

Read the article again. They pay WAC $35 just in case they need 911, and in return WAC doesn't chase them for copays resulting from care (a lot more than $35, but the profit comes in because fewer people will need care than paid the fee- you hope). You could argue that this constitutes an insurance policy of its own, so I'd imagine that's what has the CID's panties in a wad. What, you thing two guys named Legz and Knucklez show up? Somebody's watched too many mob movies. WAC has 1,000 subscribers in Pawcatuck. Considering Pawcatuck has almost 5,500 residents, I think we can safely assume subscription is not mandatory. They've had it for decades. If it was pushed on people somebody would've bitched by now. It sucks. I can think of a lot of things an EMS service can do with 35 large. Especially now that WAC has full and part-time employees.

They ARE a CT-licensed service, as are many (most?) of the personnel, and the vehicles. Kind of have to be, considering they are the primary response agency for Pawcatuck.

Fishing expedition, to see how much of a settlement they can get.

Boo freakin hoo. Good for Tober.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.d.../NEWS/908190340

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.asp...A9_Harshc941593

As far as males go, except for his old man he's pretty much the first.

Sounds familiar, except for having an actual place to go to. Ours spend so many nights at the ER some of the EMS guys started using that for their address on the run reports.

Could be worse. Local FD ran the ladder truck over a homeless guy's entire body a few years ago. He'd managed to sneak into the station during the night, and slept under the truck. When the night crew got a call, they never thought in a million years they'd have to look under the truck for random skells sleeping under the tires.

Good of them to turn the ignition off, at least putting a 1-2 second delay on the skell making off with the truck. Many people around here don't even shut the truck down, especially on very hot or cold days.

Hmm. Interesting that the RNs consider Respiratory a step down.

Feel free to ignore the pleas of a family presenting you with a dying animal. Just don't expect their vote- or the vote of anybody they know- when you come asking for more of their tax money at the next election/town meeting/etc. Look, by all means stay ready for human victims, firefighters needing care, etc. In the meantime, would it kill you to do what you can, even if it's just to tell them "Sorry, I tried"?

By procedure, who notifies the medic of a request for ALS- the BLS crew, dispatcher, other? Who did in this case?

Oddly, what pisses me off most is that the reporting cop describes the AR15 as an "automatic weapon." FAIL. Back to donut school... I mean, the police academy!

The one thing to remember is that not every city, even major city, is served by a municipally-owned service. Some have contracts with private ambulance services, some are covered by county agencies, and still others are covered by hospital-based services. So, 1) googling a random city and poking around their government site isn't necessarily going to get you the answer you want, and 2) you need to decide what types of agencies you ARE willing to work for. In any event, for starters: Boston MA (city) Austin/Travis County TX (county) Pittsburgh PA (city) Portland, OR (private) Charlotte, SC (private) Tulsa, OK (public utility/private) Denver, CO (hospital) Indianapolis, IN (hospital) New Orleans, LA (city) Philadelphia, PA (FD- single role) Baltimore, MD (FD- single role[i think])

Yes, I'm aware. I'm trying to say that what NYPD has (ESU) is almost exclusively their own. Ergo, telling the OP to call their PD's ESU is not the best advice.

Richard- other than NYPD and Jersey City, I don't know of any other police department that has an ESU that would even begin to deal with this. SWAT teams, yes. ESU, VERY rare.

So do I, I just don't see that many pregnant patients with the places I work at. Closest thing I've had to a pregnant patient within the last 12 months was a young woman who'd very recently become un-pregnant. And that was last fall.

Good lord, talk about the nightmare scenario. I hope his partner gets some help after that. Turn the monitor off, turn it back on. Old code summary saved, new code summary started.

Whether or not we think this kid deserves the title "just an EMT" or not, there's no reason to be dressed down in public. A paramedic working with a basic, I think we'd all agree, has a supervisory relationship with that basic. Correcting employees in private, and not in front of peers or the public, is management 101.

My PT private company has a contract with the state ME and several funeral homes to do body pickup and deliveries at certain hours (typically nights/weekends/holidays). Shifts are open to all employees, licensed or not, scheduled separate and apart from whatever schedule you have normally. In accordance with state regulations, no ambulances are used for body transports. In other states, there are private EMS services that do body pickups with ambulances and EMTs. As far as I know, EMT-B by itself will not get you a job with mortuaries or coroners.

Obama hasn't printed any money lately.

May have been a cellphone.