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    Here's a thought, maybe send the guy to a physician that the your service has on retainer for a fitness for duty evaluation.
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    What do you think the 12 lead was telling you? elevation in leads v1 and v2 with recriprocal changes in V5 and V6. What does your education and understanding tell you? Do you think that maybe the sycnopal episodes might have been cardiac in nature?
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    Nope but I haven't really looked, Rockshoes - Work has been killing me since I posted this.
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    I think that your question should be addressed directly to the State of Michigan. I thought only Felonies precluded you from holding a professional license. I know several medics who have DWI convictions on their records and they are still holding valid paramedic licenses in missouri. Your only definitive answer will be from the state of Michigan bureau of EMS, not from a EMS website. But you can influence your friend to keep his nose clean from here on out so to speak. The less he has on his record the better. Ruff
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    The current mantra out there is "we have to reform the police because they are so out of control towards the public" but what about the people who attack yhe police. No talk at all about reforming these people. Its not just one sided folks.

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    Jeff, many opinions on this but here's mine Take option 2, go to the full bore college that offers the paramedic course. You have to get the emt before medic so why not just get the medic. 15 miles is not a big deal in terms of driving distance. When I was in paramedic school I was driving to clinicals that were upwards of 80 miles one way and I was doing that for 5 days a week. Good luck. PM me if you need anything.
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    Year long EMT program? Have you researched programs in Minnesota? What options are available for you in your research that you have done?
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    An allegory for todays Youth and disconnected families. Be careful what you let your children go off and do. Shared from my Good Friend Phillip Cosby. This is really sort of scary. Be cognizent of what you let your children go off and do without your knowledge. A family of four, mom, dad, a young son and daughter set in the not so distant future. Their home, like most had a specially equipped 'imagination' room. A room we today would call a 'holodeck' from the futuristic Star Trek T...

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    Watching dirty jobs and its about a group of people studying cow poop and the beetles that live in it. Its amazing to me that there are people that went to school, spent thousands of dollars and probably have craploads of student loans outstanding just to study this shit!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Let me ask a very serious question Why are many people making such a huge deal about stores forcing their people to work on Thanksgiving when there are thousands of EMS/Fire/Police and Healthcare workers working on EVERY single holiday and no-one bats a freaking eye over that? Do Healthcare/Emergency workers not COUNT? If you are complaining about someone in retail having to work on Thanksgiving, then you need to be having this same complaining festival over those emergency workers who are...

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    Thanks to everyone for wishing me a happy birthday, I appreciate it.

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    Gonna be a very very long night for ferguson mo tonight.

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    Absolutely ASSININE to delay the announcement of the grand jury decision until 9pm eastern. How many more people can they get on the streets and how much more danger can they put these officers in once the rioting starts.

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    I don't believe it's an attorney. I have yet to get a response back to my questions though
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    What Mike Said, you could probably get a job at a hospital as an EMT but remember, you might not get to do a lot of skills other than change dressings and maybe put on splints but that being said. My advice is this. Go back to school, get your pre-requisites for paramedic or gasp - nursing and finish those. Get a well rounded education that will prepare you for being a paramedic. If you are truly serious about being in EMS, then you will be able to wait patiently, bide your time, take your classes and take your paramedic courses. As a medic you really don't need to drive unless the service you want to work for makes you do so. Since you are essentially barred from being an EMT for the foreseeable future, now's the time to SEIZE the day and get more education. You could even go to the fire academy and be a fire fighter too. Good luck, but remember, stay alcohol free.
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    Thing is, I had to pay to go to the EKG classes in order to get the autographed copies so I can't say I know the authors. At least you can say you probably personally know the author of the text book. But I do know each and every one of the project management text authors. Good group of guys.
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    ok, you are going to get a lot of responses on this and most will not be positive and I'll be the first. 1. DUI is one of the worst things you can have on your license in terms of the death knell of no employment in EMS because insurance companies determine that to be a HUGE liability. Plus we in the EMS field, sorry to tell you this, many of us in the field do not want to work with someone who got busted for DUI. 2. Your insurability will be almost a impossibility until you get this off your record. 3. There is a glut of emt's out there looking for work and with your DUI you go right to the bottom of the barrel or even into the trash can. Had you have said you had a failure to yield charge or something like that, that would be one thing but the DUI is something of a cardinal sin. In my area you would not be eligible for hire because of the DUI. You will more than likely need to either wait till the DUI drops off your license, wait till you turn 25 or find a service that is self insured. There's a reason why you are being told it's a no go for that reason, in laymans terms, you are persona non-grata in terms of employability/drivability One other thing and I'm sure that you have been told this but you need to lay off the alcohol from here on out, don't drink and drive and make sure that you remain above reproach in your legal troubles. I can also tell you one other thing, I've been on multiple hiring processes and every person who has come in front of our processes and when we have been made aware of the candidates criminal history especially with DUI, they have been immediately put in the DO NOT HIRE list. You just didn't get passed our group if you had a DUI. Our thoughts were that if you were irresponsible enough to drink and drive and put countless lives at risk, then we didn't feel that you would be a good fit in our agency. Lecture over - now here's the advice that you should heed now. But I'm sure you've said and heard all that before. So pull your boots up by the bootstrap, get into paramedic school, and then start re-applying to services. For now the chances of a emt job is almost nil. Also stay away from the alcohol and a car. Hope this helps.
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    ERDoc, half my project management course books are signed by the instructors because they wrote them I also have two 12 lead books signed by the authors. Dale dubin is one and the other is Tim Phalen. Now if that Bledsoe guy will ever send me a personalized copy of one of his text's, but he keeps telling me that what get's written in vegas, stays in vegas.
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    Ok, some questions were good, others were not so good. I should have printed out the survey to take a look at the questions but some I think need rewriting or at least additional questions added. Please feel free to contact me but I would need a list of the questions in order that way I can find the ones that I felt were not so concisely written. Michael
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    www.emsce.com (used to be the CE Solutions site) Search through my old posts over the past couple of months and you will see some others. All of what I posted were free except the EMSCE site.
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    If Ebola breaks out in Vegas, does it stay in Vegas??? Dr. Bryan Bledsoe is this true?

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    You know with all these women coming out against Cosby one has to ask themselves is there truth at all to this. With this many coming out now it really looks bad for him but we need to keep in our heads that these are accusations only and have not been proven.

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    No Jennifer, my meeting has not started yet.

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    here is something to make you feel insignificant. If someone is looking at our solar system from the nearest galaxy from the milky way, You and I are dead. The light that they are seeing is many many thousands of years old which would make you and I already dead. Sort of humbling isn't it?

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    Can we get this over with, I was trying to watch some porn Let's call the fire department - they aren't doing anything but watching tv Can I post this to my facebook account? Damn, this is going to light up the twitterverse
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