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"If you can't beat them...cheat."

"You're So Vain" - Carley Simon (If anyone can fall in love with a voice, she'd be one of them)

Well put. Especially if there is an "unknown" problem. Or if after an accident and the pt. "feels fines' but is rubbing their chest, neck, or stomach. I would tell them that I'm a medical professional and another naked body is not going to phase me. You can still be discreet, Let them remove what clothing you deem necessary if possible. If you have to remove their clothes complete explain to them what you are doing. And that it is necessary.

Well, the guy filming had balls. I've heard of where some check points aren't that civil. It sounds like he was stirring up stuff that he didn't need to be. Why? At first I was wondering if it was a fake "boarder patrol" set up by "unlawful" individual and they guy was trying to expose them. I might have missed something. I got an important phone call right in the middle of it.

If I remember right, both were suspened, and one was a Lt. that was demoted. But I'm not possitive. It's been a while ago.

What did they say? "Don't eat this!"

I know we've all had partners that weren't the brightest bulbs, but have you ever had to tell a "partner" to GET LOST, or tell them to go sit in the rig, up front? Luckily I didn't I didn't have to face that situation, sort of awkward. But I've seen it done on several occasions. I'd seen them cry, be p!ssed off at either the crew chief or with themselves, etc. 90% of the time we were just a two man crew, and if we needed a third one of Fire/ Rescue would jump in. But believe me, there were sometimes that if we had at least one more person there I would have told the "moron" to sit in the rig and stay there. And I'm not talking about Rookies. There were some guys that had been in EMS for five years or more. Guess that's why most of them were still BLS. One guy I would have fired on the spot if it weren't for being in a "no man's land". It was right were there were three different agencies could cover. It just depended who the caller called. We'd usually get the call because of the three we were the only ALS, at the time. If one of the other agencies showed up, which often happened, I would have told "Jim" to go with them back to their HQ and wait for a ride back to our station, which he would have been promptly fired. Even though I really needed two sets of hands in the back, I still made "Jim" sit up front and had "Brad" (ILS) drive. Due to already being short handed, and I cooled down a little bit, and "Jim" was next in rotation to make a transfer, he wasn't fired...that day. His "day" came about three months later.

That's pretty much how I did it. However, I hope the BLS person who did the initial bandaging paid attention and knew what they were doing. If I trusted them I just went by what they said. But all to often would have same ya-hoo that just saw it was bleeding so they wrapped. Didn't say how deep, how wide, etc. Once had a guy with an arterial bleed and the BLS person, while still wrapping it had no idea it was arterial and didn't know why it wouldn't stop bleeding. Idiot. A three week rookie still in EMT class could have known that.

I was asked if I'd ever had coke up my nose. But I said, "No, but I got some root beer up there one time."

I know some who feel that expiration dates on meds are about the same way about food expiration dates. They'll say it's a "sell by" date. But when it comes to meds, I wouldn't dare use it. I know in the military you can't be "sued" for negligence or malpractice, at least in the Navy. But for the general public, if someone was given an expired drug and they went down hill, not necessarily from that certain drug, a good lawyer...BUSTED Anytime we had a drug box opened for any reason it went to the Pharmacy at our resource hospital and they would not give it back until every little thing was checked. It's a good thing we had enough exchange boxes, or we'd have to wait for hours. We once waited four hours to get our box back one time when there were no more exchange boxes due to a rash of "codes". In that case we had to hang around the ER, and if we got a call we were authorized to take their "mini-code cart". It might have been "mini" but talk about heavy and bulky.

Likely story.

One was taking the scenic route.

That's my nephew at that age perfectly. He's 16 now.

You didn't ??? :blackeye:

"The success in being a high jumper is to jump very high."

"Cover of Rolling Stone" - Brewer & Shipley

Touche'

When and what was the last thing she ate/drank? And the ever so popular question, pregnant?

I hate to be a party pooper, but I'm just going to give a quick short answer from what experience I have had to do with it. Back in early '88 our system did a somewhat pilot program on this. There were 10 or 12 of us that participated. Overall it seemed to do pretty good. It took a lot of pressure off the hospital in finding nurses for Interstate transfers and other duties. One big notice was that when on calls all we had to do was notify which Medic(s) was on the call and to ask to go by protocols. That relieved them from having to stand by right at the radio for every transmission. It did cause some discord between a few of the Medics, especially those not chosen to be one of the select few, which would be natural. But the biggest down side was as the original Medics left, moved on, etc. either no one wanted to take their place or there wasn't enough "qualified"to fill their shoes. I know it got down to just four of us and after two years they just dropped the program. We were spent, burned out, tired, etc. So, I'm not for or against it. It you try it and it works GREAT, but if it causes problems that just don't seem worth it....well, just think of what might have been.

Somebody slip her a "mickey"? Any freelance pharmaceuticals, mom's valium? Vicodin? Any new make up products? ETOH? Any food allergies? Any abd. pain or headache? When she "nods" off, what are her resp. like? Does she "awaken" slowly or as being startled? Slurred speech? Aggitated?

Prolonged smoker? Pneumonia? COPD? Inhaled any unusual fumes lately? First time crack smoker? Any nasal congestion? EN&T observed? "Skin: extremities-cold and dry core-hot and diaphoretic" ??? Something just doesn't sounds kosher all the way around. :scratch: Even with improvement with O2 sat. I'd still increas it it to 12 L per NRM. Any new construction or utility work in the near area?

Off and on over the years my cohorts and I have had discussions of men becoming mid-wives. Sure, we're trained to deliver babies and other obstetric emergencies. But I don't think we've hashed it out here. What sort of reminded me of it was that yesterday I had a doc appointment and for some reason we got on the subject. I know there are some out there, but very, very few. My doc told me she was against it because women in general "Women don't want men 'down there'. But there sure seems like a lot of OB/GYN's have made a good practice at it. And a man had to be 'down there" at one point or another in the first place. (Sorry, didn't mean to sound crass) But I even brought up the fact that a gal I use to date didn't want a woman 'down there'. Guess I'm sort of bored this morning and thought, eh, why not bring it up?

"There's no crying in bowling, unless you smash your pinky."

Guess I should have said he eventually received the Nobel Peace Prize. #-o

"One Tin Soldier" - Coven