Just Plain Ruff

Holy godiva chocolate batman, this guy could be in real trouble, and I'm not joking on this, especially if the chef didn't know what he was doing.

Check your PM's

you are sooo right. I apologize to the entire City population that I let this go so far. Forgive the lapse in judgment.

thats funny

whatever, who can tell with your sarcasm and rapier wit. if you want to continue this let's do so in PMs. If not then just go away. As far as I'm concerned it's over. I think we've subjected everyone in the city to our relentless arguing long enough. I'm sure they are sick of it. so let's just stop, and when you find offense at something else I say or post then you can come back and we can start over. It's over

yes I mean no, I mean yes, I mean no but seriously: you cannot hold a dialogue without insulting someone can you. You should be asking the same question of your self. Why do you feel the need for insults instead of good ole fashioned civil communication. Is this how you treat those who disagree with you at your own service cause I can imagine that at least someone disagrees with you where you work. You can't be right all the time can you? I think we should end this here and now. I will stop posting and you should too. I'll be the bigger man here. I'll stop.

nah, I've got one. you are so sweet to ask though. thanks Even though you have such great knowledge of everything that happens in every state, we still love you. Group Hug

my god the humanity. Can't you be any more original in your insults that kentucky family tree??? that was kind of funny though. You don't have a clue. this happened 11 years ago and there were no critical care paramedics. I don't know why I even bother with such drivel. The patient survived yes, would I do it again, no but I've never had to face that type of transfer in the past 11 years. What gets me Fire is that you seem not to understand that there were a lot of things done 11 years ago and even less time ago than that that would curl your delicate senstivities. You have yet to prove that I have lied on this forum at all. NO matter what you try to pull you cannot prove that I'm lying. Of course you can't prove that I am not lying so you resort to insults. The reason I didn't answer your treatment questions is that even if I put one little thing down that doesn't correlate to your thinking you would crow to the entire group that "Ruff's wrong, Ruff's wrong" and that is why I didn't answer your posts. Not once did I resort to google. God forbid you would have to think for yourself on a call, I'm sure you have so many resources backing you up on every call you make including the minor nursing home runs for a transfer to the hospital that is just across the street, let me guess, a call like that gets a fire truck, a supervisor and your als crew as well as 3 helicopters, one mass casualty truck and a fire department tender. So continue to call me out, continue to hurl insults but the majority of people on this board think you are full of dog ka ka. And consider YOU the renegade paramedic on this board. Again, you come out of your hole only to insult me. Good luck in your crystal palace where eagles don't even dare to tread.

Whatever Fire. Go back and wait till the next thread to troll and pop up. It's amazing how much experience you have in your short two years of being a medic. people who live in glass houses. What I hope is that you never are subjected to having to work in the real world. How would you do it. I can just imagine that your single service experience with dual medics, ultra diagnostic devices, having all the resources in the world to call on. I would love to see how you would handle working for a rural service that has one medic covering the entire county. When the mass casualty incident or just a car wreck that has more than 2 critical patients, I'd like to see how you handle that. I can just see it now Firefighter523 to base, I need some help out here, can you send me all you got. Dispatch - Fire, get with it son, get a grip, you are all you have until we get the mutual aid crews on the way and you are on your own for the next 24 minutes. Firefighter523 to base, oh my god, I don't knwo what to do dispatch, I can't take care of more than one patient without all those shiny resources including my defib. Help me help me I don't know what to do. dispatch, Relax fire, it's ABCs and then treat. It's so easy a cave man can do it. Just do the best you can. Firefighter523 to base, but I can't do it, I'm not used to working on my own with no resources Wheres my 12 firetrucks for extrication, where's my 3 ambulances that are always available? Where's my helicopter's???? OH MY GOD I'm Dying here Dispatch, all that you have requested will be there in 22 minutes. Welcome to Rural EMS I don't care what you think fire, you proved that you were a lightweight back in your previous posts. You only come out at night to start stuff. You cannot prove that I'm a liar yet you called me one. You are the one who started this. So now, put your tails between your legs and go back where you came from. Good luck and god speed. I will not respond further on this topic. Thank god I don't travel to Pennsylvania, I might get cardioverted for no good reason.

that was good flight-lp this did indeed happen to me 11 years ago. I took the patient to the receiving hospital and the patient survived. Yes indeed, this was not the only time that we transported patients with devices or medications that I or my service should not have transferred but back 11 years ago there was no such thing as a CCEMTP program. You transported who the hospital said to transfer, to hell with the fact that you might not be trained to operate that equipment or have a good base of knowledge of specific drugs or not. The other thing is that many many things have changed in the 15 years I've been doing this. I am sure that in 13 years from now, which would if I understood one of Fire's previous post that hes been a medic for 2 years I am sure that in 15 years a lot more will have changed. I have medic friends who have been medics for over 30 years and the horror stories I heard when I got in the business and they curled my hair. A lot of things have changed, some for the better and some not for the better. Fire, you and i will continue to disagree and that is fine, that is what makes this forum great. AS for the liar comment, rubber gloves and d50 syringes at 50 paces.

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show me where you pimped me? Prove it. I'll recant all my lies if you can prove to me where I have ever lied on this forum? You are showing your maturity pimped on it wow. I'm at a loss for words. Are you sure you know what pimped means?

Dude, have you been working as a medic for 11 years or longer??? If not then you have no common frame of reference to make that statement. There's no talking to you, OH I forgot, you are always right. Forgive me I bow down to the inexplicable wealth of knowledge that you have in your two short years of being a medic. I'll bet that your wealth of experience that you have as a medic is based on a single ems entity. Come back when you've worked for more than one. And as for my resume Most of the services I've worked for ran dual medics. Think what you want. You are the one who needs to learn. I don't know why I let this guy get under my skin. He's just so easy to get riled up.

dude you know nothing about me nor my level of training. I don't really care whether or not you believe me or not. You have been antagonistic towards me ever since you started posting. You come out of your hole just to make insults and then you slink back to fight another day. Go troll some other boards. Plus you have no idea when this happened nor where it happened. It happened nearly 11 years ago and there was no nurse to go with me. You know, things happened back then that would never ever happen now. But they did happen. I am sure that there have been instances in your short EMS career that happened back then but would never happen now. And Yes, hospitals do this type of stuff all the time. What about high risk ob transports that they send in a bls ambulance - because no nurse is available to go. That stuff happens even to this date. The high risk cardiac patient with many drugs that we as medics are not necessarily trained to monitor - those get transported every day because some jurisdictions or agencies do not have the high educated staff that should go on the call and transfer, but the patient is stuck with a paramedic who hopes to God that nothing goes wrong. This stuff happens all the time. I'll bet that your service has even had some transfers like that. Oh wait, you work for the best most excellently staffed service in the world where every one gets cardioverted no matter if they want it or not, they even get cardioverted if they tell you point blank that they don't want it. But I digress. again you go on the negative and nasty replies without asking more information. If you would have asked instead of spouting off your mouth like you always have done here, you would have received the above reply, the call was 11 years ago, they gave me a rudimentary inservice and I as a somewhat new medic said "sure I'll take the transfer" and I transported the patient. I also said that "God watched over his favorite fool" so go back to your hole. So before you jump on the tangent of questioning my credibility Drop it, you can't even answer the question I've posed to you over and over as well as others have posed and have been waiting on your answer. You have not answered the question of your experience level. But then again, I don't expect you to.

Code blue, the same question can be asked - why do the Political action committees and soft money campains not get taxed?

What did he eat? What Kind of restaurant are we eating at? did he have anything made with Pufferfish? Any food with Cayenne or Habanero peppers

You know that's how it starts, I"ll just take one hit (shift) this time. It then gets to be one hit a week and before you know it you are full bore to the hilt hitting it. One hit turns in to one hit a week then one hit a day and finally you just say, screw it, I've gotta go back to this it's too much of a rush. "Come back to the Dark Side Luke"

sounds like they need a housekeeper though, have that housekeeper respond code 3

This post is nowhere near a criticism of this blog - I read it faithfully and love it so I don't want to see it go away but..... with that said..... But this controversy can be directly tied back into a previous thread topic on how what you write online can hurt you. He is living this truism. He takes full responsibility for what was written but his boss and some higher ups found out about the blog and are now having an MI over what he wrote. Remember people, what you write, no matter how innocuous you think it is or how harmless it really is, if it is on line and someone can find it someone will take offense or find fault in what you write. Had his company wanted to they could have done one of several things. 1. Terminated him because it made the service and medical control hospital look bad and it was identifiable that it was their service mentioned (it didn't but powers above assumed it did). If it is the company that I think he works for then I'm surprised he didn't get canned right then and there. 2. Required him to stop blogging about his patients. I am sure that the old lady in his most recent blog entry and her caretakers could have taken offense at what he wrote, especially the bad dinner statement. That might have been an easily identifiable comment. 3. or they could have suspended him Large corporations do NOT Like to be made to look bad. They tend to take it out on the little people. Blogs are great but don't expect them to be fully private unless you are blogging on a fully secured blog, ergo - a blog that only you have access to and that you are the only one who will ever ever read it. If it's out there on line, then it can be seen by people and some of those people DO NOT Have your best interests at heart. Just be careful.

Oh if I only had this certification many moons ago. Great program if you ask me. I toyed around with the idea of getting the cert but never got around to it. I'm sure I could pass it without issue now but when you really don't know that you really don't know, you really don't know. I've taken some doozy of patients on hour or longer transport that I should have never transported without someone higher certed than me. One example that glaringly jumps out is the patient on a balloon pump. One wrong move without the knowledge of how to repair the connector or assist the patient and wham, instant dead patient. God really did watch over his favorite fool that day.

Ok, let's take this good discussion one step futher. How do you deal with the crew that you take the rig over from who habitually leaves the Rig empty? Do you write it up? do you confront the crew? What is your service's policy on getting in an unstocked unit? What is the policy that you get in a rig that is unstocked and go on the streets? Does your service have a disciplinary policy in place that punishes those who leave their rigs consistently understocked?

This test was developed as an age test by an R&D Department of Harvard University. TAKE YOUR TIME and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. Believe it or not, the average person over 40 years of age can't do it! 1. This is this cat. 2. This is is cat. 3. This is how cat. 4. This is to cat. 5. This is keep cat. 6. This is an cat. 7. This is old cat. 8. This is fart cat. 9. This is busy cat. 10. This is for cat. 11. This is forty cat. 12. This is seconds cat. Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down, and I bet you can't resist passing it on.

Have fun understanding English..... ........ In a Bangkok temple: "IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN." Cocktail lounge, Norway: "LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR." Doctors office, Rome: "SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES. Dry cleaners, Bangkok: "DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS. In a Nairobi restaurant: "CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER." On an Athi River highway:this is the main road to Mombasa, leaving Nairobi. "TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE." On a poster at Kencom: "ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP." In a City restaurant: "OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS." A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer: "DO NOT ACTIVATE WITH WET HANDS." In a cemetery: "PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES." Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations: "GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED." On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: "OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR." In a Tokyo bar: "SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS." Hotel, Yugoslavia: "THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE IS THE JOB OF THE CHAMBERMAID. " Hotel, Japan: "YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID. " In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery: "YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY." A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest: "IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST CAMPING SITE THAT PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE." Hotel, Zurich: "BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE." Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand: "WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?" The box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: "GUARANTEED TO WORK THROUGHOUT ITS USEFUL LIFE." In a Swiss mountain inn: "SPECIAL TODAY - NO ICE-CREAM." Airline ticket office, Copenhagen: "WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS." A laundry in Rome: "LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD TIME."

So you thought police officers didn't have a sense of humor.... The following were taken off of actual police car videos around the country: #15 "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch out after you wear them awhile." #14 "Take your hands off the car, and I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document." #13 "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired." #12 "Can you run faster than 1,200 feet per second? In case you didn't know, that is the average speed of a 9mm bullet fired from my gun." #11 "So you don't know how fast you were going. I guess that means I can write anything I want on the ticket, huh?" #10 "Yes, Sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I am the shift supervisor?" #9 "Warning! You want a warning? O.K., I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket." #8 "The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?" #7 "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy, and step in monkey $#*!." #6 "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven." #5 "In God we trust, all others we run through NCIC." #4 "Just how big were those two beers?" #3 "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we want." #2 "I'm glad to hear the Chief of Police is a good personal friend of yours. At least you know someone who can post your bail." AND yes, the best one (although, I really like #8)... #1 "You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't...sign here.

ok it's black and white If you have to take from the hospital to make sure your truck is stocked then you are still stealing - what happens if you take from the hospital and use that equipment on a patient that goes to another hospital? Isn't that stealing? If you take stuff from a hospital and use it for your personal use then it's stealing. Why is there a question about this?