Dustdevil

Thread title changed to reflect content. "What would you do" is a specifically prohibited thread title in the rules. I don't handle them any different than any other run, and they don't bother me in the least. If they bother you, you should leave the profession, because there is no way to change that.

Those can be really nasty! They scare the heck out of me. After responding to literally dozens of aircraft incidents over the years, including probably major 15 airliner crashes, they still fascinate me. There's a lot to be learned from each one, both medically and otherwise. You guys pretty rural out there, or what?

Never heard of this, but I despise the CSI shows, so I doubt that I'd have any interest in this drivel. I did accidentally catch most of an episode of "Mercy" a few weeks back and found it relatively entertaining, without too much eye rolling.

That about says it all.

No offence, but if that isn't enough motivation for you to get it done, then this simply may not be the career for you. If rote memorisation doesn't work for you (and it simply must on many medical topics), then what I find most successful is to not try to memorise it. Study the topic in-depth. Understand the underlying concepts so that memorisation of numbers is not necessary. If you understand (not memorise) the concepts of oxygenation, then you don't need to memorise the numbers. They come naturally as a result of your critical and deductive thinking. This is test taking 101. Memorisation doesn't equal education. Memorising the answer to every question doesn't tell you or us that you actually understand the concepts you have been presented. As an examiner, you're going to impress me a lot more by taking a moment to calculate the answer you give me, rather than spouting off some number you memorised, but don't understand. If neither of those work for you then again, this probably isn't the career for you.

Honestly, unless something has drastically changed in the last few years, I don't think you can go wrong with any of the three. All three provide quality education, and I've been impressed with the quality of grads from all three. Mind you, I've never attended any of them personally. But from the feedback I got on the three, I think Centennial probably provides a slight edge over the others in PCP education. I'm just not sure I'd want to go there if I couldn't carry my concealed weapon in that neighbourhood. Next choice would be Humber. Niagara is too close to NY for comfort. There is probably a better job market in the Niagara Region though, so that may be something to consider.

Any chance they had been seeing the same woman? Okay... does this thread have anything to do with Tactical or Military Medicine, or does it need to be moved?

Exactly. A very poor choice of livery. Whackerism to the max.

Fireman = fired. Yeah right, like that would happen.

Yes, but the store is guaranteed payment for those products. They are not bending over and taking a loss like the healthcare providers do.

Around these parts it would be a moot point, since no paramedic school would admit him to begin with.

Agreed. What upsets me is that they portray those mistakes as no big deal, stating "it happens to everyone, so don't worry about it!" That is bullshyte. In any credible system in the US, beard boy would have been sacked and decertified for his fatal mistake, not given a slap on the back and platitudes.

Is there any shortage of qualified nurses in Holland who would like to be ambulance nurses?

Exactly. I never saw any medical inaccuracies in EMERGENCY!, and any current contentions of inaccuracies can indeed be explained by changing medicine.

I definitely had a problem with that. If the pads were not already attached, how in the heck did the machine diagnose the rhythm? Are there actually AEDs that require two separate sets of pads to analyse and shock?

Wow, that's a blast from the past, right out of the 1973 Dyna*Med catalogue. I'm pretty sure I still have a 30 year old Roehampton kit in my garage somewhere. I did use Roehampton dressings a couple of times in the 70's and early 80's. I can't say I really recall anything particularly unique, pro or con, about them. I wasn't sure they were still made, as it's all about the BurnGel dressings these days. That's practically all we had in Iraq, from 2x2 to full-body dressings. Not to suggest that the military is always right in their choices, but it's still a pretty good sign. I haven't done any recent research into the different theories on field burn care, but I'd sure be interested in any good papers that are out there.

It is not the cops' duty or prerogative to decide if the firemonkeys are needed or not. It is the duty of the medical authority at the scene, being the ambulance crew. If the ambulance crew is not yet on the scene -- which is what it sounds like -- then the cop absolutely has no duty or authority to disregard the first responders. I agree that a cop should be fired here.

The SO changing their story TWICE about who arrived first is going to bite their credibility in the arse. Don't expect any charges from the DA, and DO expect some flack from the county commissioners over it. This is embarrassing to the county. Of course, I lost all faith in Colorado sheriff's back during the Balloon Boy debacle. Idiots.

After watching the vid and reading the entire story, I think I lean towards the side of the EMT. Doesn't sound like he chased this pursuit down to get involved, as it first sounded. Sounds like the pursuit came up behind him, and he simply pulled into the left lane -- the proper lane for an emergency response -- and the suspect ran into him. I think the cops are going to have a hard time getting a conviction out of this, and they're going to just end up looking like bigger a-holes than Virginia cops already have a reputation for being, which is pretty bad.

Editorial FAIL! The original article says BASKETBALL, not baseball.

Interesting. I never figured a flood in Rhode Island would somehow be viewed as a threat to Homeland Security.

Yeah, 'screw those volly yahoos! We're cops! We do what we wanna do, and you can't stop us!' EMS based law enforcement, anyone?

ROFL! Funny, you never hear them say that when they are trying to take over EMS. Hypocritical bastards.

All those genius fire chiefs who browbeat their city councils into approving FD takeovers of EMS as a financial measure FAIL to tell the truth. Selfish, lying bastards. http://www.abc-7.com/Global/story.asp?S=12228984 A third of patients don't pay ambulance bills Posted: Mar 30, 2010 3:23 PM Updated: Mar 30, 2010 5:03 PM LEE COUNTY [Florida]: One third of patients who depend on emergency transportation services in Lee County don't pay their bills. The county is left writing off the debt. Every year, ambulances in Lee County make more than 52,000 trips transporting patients in the air and on the ground. Last year $8.2 million in emergency transportation bills went unpaid. More than half the debt comes from companies like Medicare and Medicaid, which are contracted to only pay a certain amount. Private insurers and patients owe the rest. "We realize there will be individuals who can't pay and we just have to accept that," said David Kainrad, Lee County Division of Public Safety. In what has turned into an annual vote, Lee County Commissioners pardoned the patients who used county EMS but never paid their bill. County commissioners raised EMS rates last week. It's the first fee increase in five years, but higher rates will mean higher bad debt. It's a process one county commissioner says is inherently flawed. "It's not fair to make that one honest American who's been saving bills all his life and has the $3000 in the bank and make him pay and all those other guys take a walk. It's not fair," said Commissioner Frank Mann. "You take the bad with the good. You look at hospitals, doctors, we're all faced with that situation with medical care, and we realize that," said Kainrad.