scparamedic98

I'm not sure when South Carolina first certified paramedics, but there were several that were "county certified" before the state recognized the paramedic level. It wasn't anywhere near the level of a Paramedic that we recognize today, pretty much an intermediate in today's EMS.

I use mine field guide for spelling, there is a list of commonly misspelled words in the back of the one I use. There are some words that just don't look right no matter how I spell it and I will check my spelling on them. Besides some rare meds, that's what I use mine for. Being in the military right out of high school/ college and reading message traffic in the early 90's killed my spelling ability and it still sucks. Also another reason I use firefox browser, built in spell checker without having to hit the spell check button.

Our county does random testing too, but I believe the thinking is that the county is off the hook if you were high. I don't know how that will hold up in court though.

Yes, in the county I work for any county employee involved in an on the job vehicle crash, or on the job injury, you go pee in the cup, and take BAC test.

I'm thankful for my healthy children.

The liberal bias isn't just my thoughts, it's been proven time after time. However, if they were using parts from a legal (no matter how you word it, it's murder) procedure that wouldn't be so bad, but they are creating human embryo's just for the stem cells to kill the embryo for research when there are better and other ways to do the same research without destroying a human life. An example like I gave before are the stem cells from cord blood.

No one says stem cell research is bad, it's embryonic stem cell research that is what all the flack is about. Of course the liberal biased media just wants to lump it all into one. There are an untold amount of stem cells from a newborn's cord blood that have shown way more promise than that from aborted fetuses.

We need medics in SC too, shoot me a PM if you want some info.

I can see myself being on both sides of this. I can also tell you that I would have handled things different according to what stage of my career you may have caught me in. If I were the medic from the hospital service, early on in my career, I probably would have done the exact same thing he did, and look like an ass in the process. During this part of my career, I would have opened the back doors and checked to see if the medic needed any help. If he did, I would have ridden with him to the LZ, if not I would have gotten out and closed the doors. If I were the medic from the county/ fire service, I pretty much would have handled it the same way no matter what stage of my career you caught me in. I would have told the ignorant deputy to move her ass from in front of my ambulance or her husband was going to have a patient to take care of. I wish they would have told how long both of the medics involved have been licensed. That would probably explain their actions somewhat.

No never

If y'all are going to quote us rednecks, at least get it right. It's "hey y'all watch this, and while you're at it, hold my liquor drink".

I'm happy to hear this positive feedback on the EZ IO. Our Medical Control physician just approved us to purchase and start using it after the training class. We were torn between the EZ IO and the BIG. It's good to know that this will be an useful tool for us.

Looks like someone got their pee-pee spanked.

I'm glad to see that you have found a preceptor that is taking an active role in your education and not a passive, just let's get through the shift one. I know I have seen co-workers precept students that were too busy trying to make sure they were seen as super-medic to properly evaluate and educate the student. I like the way that your preceptor handled the shift. It is similar to how I try to precept, except I like to have the student for more than one shift and I like for the student to "watch" for the first few calls and be more of a team member and gradually during the shift, transition the student to more of a team leader. Which seems to be similar to what you got, but it seemed that wasn't what was offered to you in the beginning. Overall I think you had what anyone would call a positive clinical experience. Glad to hear it went well for you and I hope this is just the first of many positive preceptors you have.