jonas salk

There was a was Wall Street Journal article I read a few years ago about how the US armed forces has, in an effort to cut costs, established a program to determine how long drugs last post expiry date. What they found was that the vast majority were fine. Though the article also mentioned something i found interesting, that there were some drugs which the military made a conscious decisions not to use post expiry date due to possible PR ramifications. the main one being saline and ringers, that it would look absolutely terrible for an injured solider/sailor to look up in their bed to see that the NS drip running into their arm expired three years prior. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB954201508530067326.html

what was his pressure? And what exactly is 'almost unconscious'?

Things have changed with your service from when I was there, unless there is a cultural divide between the north and south with code 4 returns.

Yeah I'm certain it's not an official policy (hence the 'informal' part of the statement lol). The culture of my service is one where we rarely return code 4, whereas other services are on the other side of pendulum.

In the 1000+ hours I've worked already this year, I think i've done 4 code 4 returns. I was talking to a friend from paramedic school and she was saying her service (in eastern ontario), any patient who gets SR of any kind is an automatic 4 return. Personally i found that insane, but each service has their own formal and informal P&P I suppose.

first thing i noticed while reading the article was that the patient was released the same day. On the surface it sounds like the crew was driving L&S with no real clinical indication for it. Personally my threshold for a code 4 return is pretty high.

best piece of advice? Go to university, get a degree then come back to EMS when you're older.

kinda draconian to suspend a licence for drinking when it didn't involve driving. But that's just my opinion.

check out the OPALS study. You might find some decent information in it.

I had heard that service positions were paying better than they do in Ontario but i never expected that Tim Hortons would pay 18 bucks an hour.

The adage is true, the more you make the more you spend.

My tax rate is around 30%

I just did my taxes for 2011 and my total for the year (not including the non-taxable missed meal breaks awards etc) was $89k ~90k USD ~56kGBP ~109k NZD

they might do better than fire...

The lights on the truck look like ambers to me.