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Plympton's a bit of an odd duck. They're a paid department that contracts with AMR, but also have their own ALS transporting ambulance. I haven't quite figured out how they operate.

Fair enough, but he didn't put it in the newspaper. He put it in a book, which lots of EMS people have done. The newspaper put it in the newspaper.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/6246485.html

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1591765

http://www.wickedlocal.com/plympton/news/x...ngham-girl-dead

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/t...monologues.aspx

Are you kidding? Working at a private with a partner who can't drive was GREAT! Yeah, driving at a 911 service all day isn't much fun, but I can't say I'd miss teching a day of dialysis, discharges, and doctor's appointments.

That's all well and fine, Vent. And none of it is going to make me tell my chain-smoking asthma patient who has no air conditioner for the summertime that because I gave her an albuterol treatment as she requested, she now has to go to the hospital whether she like it or not in spite of her desire to refuse without prompting, adequate mentation, normal vital signs, and no evidence of hypoxia.

http://fingersandtubesineveryorifice.blogs.../toothache.html

I'd rather have a vest than a gun. Same reason I don't carry a knife like most whackers- I prefer to limit the number of things on my person that a patient or bystander could use to kill me.

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Looks pretty easy when the board is 3 inches off the surface and the patient follows instructions. I'd kill to see them try that on a patient in bed. Or mud. Or a combative. Taking that off must be a blast too. They'd last about 10 seconds in our trauma rooms before the trauma team turned that webbing into confetti. WTF is that CID anyway? That seems not at all better than using nothing.

Have you been buffing EMS calls where I live??

All you have to do is that last strap differently and it's all good. I teach this method to every Basic class. Preferably above the kneecap, put the 9-foot strap through the handold, over both legs, and into the opposite handold. Cross back over both legs, around the feet, and back over to meet the buckle and tighten. The patient can now be stood feet down or head down and they WILL NOT MOVE. It can be done below the knees for tall patients, but I prefer above as this will leave them incapable of bending their knees and therefore kicking out of the strap- great for combatives!

I'm working. :roll:

PLEASE don't tell me the medic spent 20 minutes sitting at the rendezvous point. :?

I predict that the team I don't care about will win, and the other team I don't care about will lose.

I fail to see how airway obstructions are a measure of intellect.

The only reason the death penalty costs so much, as the study shows, is all the damn appeals. A bullet in the head 5 minutes after conviction not only saves money, it also brings back that deterrent value that death penalty opponents argue isn't there. And it isn't, because anybody with a brain knows they'll be executed as a senior citizen even if the appeals are denied. You really want to go hardcore, charge the perp's family for the bullet like China does.

Have you been peeking in the windows of my POC station? As much as it sucks, it's infinitely better than responding alone. Trust me.

....Aaaaaand it's gone.

I tried that argument about 2 years ago and got nowhere with it. Apparently the thousands, if not tens of thousands, of paramedicless dialysis transports made every day without anyone dying are just aberrations. :roll:

Lot of places have those on frontline apparatus. Mostly in Maryland, I thought until now.

Read the WHOLE POST, dumbass!

The reason Boston EMS is one of the best in the country is because THEY provide the ALS care, with carefully selected and exceptionally trained paramedics. Not a firefighter patch factory graduate witha license to kill. Boston Fire trucks are sent on Priority 1 calls for one reason- to put an AED and CPR-trained hands onscene in case the patient codes before EMS arrival, or is a code already.