Dustdevil

Incredible. How can this not be felony fraud?

Probably not such a bad idea. Big Brother isn't handing out billions of dollars for EMS these days, but they are for so-called "Homeland Security". Just a little creative accounting to get a piece of the pie.

Actually, any Ham operator or communications engineer will tell you that the complete opposite is true. You may find a UHF system that is stronger and better engineered for greater distance than a VHF system. However, that is comparing system to system, not band to band. Comparing band to band, VHF will always have greater distance, with the exception of occasional atmospheric nuances. There are decent reasons to choose UHF over VHF, but do NOT do it thinking that your range will be increased. It will not unless you do the very same things that would have made your VHF range greater.

Funny how those two incidents came out around the same time. Personally, I don't find any problem with either of them, except for the obvious fact that the tower incident violated very clear written policy.

The bottom line here is going to depend upon their written assessment. If they say they checked vital signs on this patient, they're screwed for lying. If they say they didn't check vital signs, or if they don't say one way or another, then they're screwed for incompetence. Personally, I don't see any way out of it, unless some police officers testify that they witnessed some vital signs being taken.

What kind of whacker organisation paints "HOMELAND SECURITY" on the back of a medic supervisor's vehicle anyhow?

If someone negligently makes a firearm available to someone who then commits a murder with it, he is legally liable. The same should apply to whoever left the keys in that SUV.

Meh... not sure I'm on board with this. Sounds like politics to me.

Thank God for 9/11. Otherwise, we'd never have anyone to investigate amusement ride accidents.

Just FYI, when you dishonour my name, you dishonour a lot of good men who gave their lives for it. Think before you post.

Okay, so you come on duty and the last name on the tags is yours. You were the last person to check and tag that cabinet. Do you bust the tag and perform an inventory anyhow, or trust yourself and let it go. Just FYI, I have seen "trusting yourself" come back and bite people BIG TIME in the arse. You are no more infallible than anyone else. I saw one medic take that long, lonely, unpaid flight home from Iraq for trusting her own inventory signature.

Forum etiquette for the unsophisticated:

Really? I thought this was SOP for all those Long Island volly houses.

Yes, I wasn't pointing it out as a mistake. Merely a curiosity that may foreshadow things to come.

LOL! I forgot what his line was, but I remember the captain's reaction!

This is already being discussed in the original article at: http://www.emtcity.com/index.php/topic/17963-news-feed-omaha-paramedics-investigated-for-allowing-child-to-use-radio-during-emergency-transport-jemscom/page__p__238150__hl__Omaha__fromsearch__1&#entry238150 But definitely go and check out the new link in the OP.

Eh?

Yep! I feel ya, Bro. That is exactly what I have seen happen more than once. Someone else screws up the stocking -- or charting, or patient care -- and I get reamed for it. Forget that. Don't think for a minute that the other guy's initials on that tag mean he'll get the blame. If you want something right, you have to do it yourself. Remember, most of the people we work with are in this job because they were too stupid, immature, or lazy to get a real job. Do you really trust them?

They don't have to if you're leaving your truck unlocked on scenes.

ROFL! Well, if the patient smelled that bad, there were probably a few flies there to witness it!

Are you drunk? What pictures? And who is y'all?

Okay, now that the "Roy" cameo has been aired, let's talk about it. First, here's the original article from the link posted above: NBC's 'Trauma' has chance to revive itself; much criticized show returns BY RICHARD HUFF DAILY NEWS TV EDITOR Tuesday, March 2nd 2010, 10:27 AM Derek Luke (c.) and Kevin Rankin play EMS workers in 'Trauma,' which returns Monday at 9 p.m. The NBC series "Trauma" was lambasted by the emergency medical community when it launched in the fall for factual mistakes and an inaccurate portrayal of that world. Indeed, more than a few said it was a weak imitation of "Emergency!," the 1972 series with Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as California paramedics that many held up as the best portrayal of EMS life. Executive producer Dario Scardapane is well aware of the comparisons. "I think our DNA and 'Emergency's' DNA are very, very close, and I was at first really, really shocked by the paramedic backlash," Scardapane said yesterday. "And in a sick way, I kinda got into it to find a way to learn how to do the show better." "Trauma" centers on a group of paramedics and emergency medical technicians working in San Francisco. It stars Anastasia Griffith, Cliff Curtis, Aimee Garcia, Derek Luke, Jamey Sheridan, Kevin Rankin, Taylor Kinney and others. The show launched in the fall on Mondays to so-so ratings and was hammered by EMS workers. At the time, in a letter to NBC, the president of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians said "Trauma" presented "a grossly inaccurate and misleading impression." Scardapane admitted it took the show a while to find its footing in terms of portraying the field of emergency medicine. Yet, he said, he got a letter on the show's Facebook fan page from a New York paramedic who said, "When I saw the pilot, I hated the show, and now I just don't want it to go." "Trauma" returns to NBC on Monday at 9 p.m. after being off since Nov. 30. Since then, there have been reports saying the series would be canceled, followed by those that it would be picked up. "It's been amazing," Scardapane said of the show's status. "It brought us together. Granted, it's probably done a number on my liver. But all of us kind of pulled together. It made us dig in. It made the actors speak up. ... We've survived the odds." The new episodes go deeper into the characters and move away, somewhat, from the catastrophes that peppered the first few weeks and became the show's calling card, though that wasn't entirely fair. "We're 10 episodes in [and] a lot less stuff blows up between cars and tankers, and a lot more blows up with people," he said. In keeping with its "Emergency!" DNA, the second return episode includes a guest-star appearance by Tighe, who plays a substitute captain who has been out of the field for a spell. "Putting that guest star in was a real nod to a show I grew up on and a little bit of, 'Yeah, we get it,'" he said. "We had to do it, and we may bring yet another person from that rig." But does that validate "Trauma"? "Validation's a funny word," he said. "I think everybody on this show has a deep and abiding respect for the men and women of emergency medical services - and we're not always going to get it right. But we're portraying a job - and the people in the job - that hasn't been portrayed much on network television." rhuff@nydailynews.com As I said in my critique of Episode 14 (EMS Discussion forum), I thought the appearance by Roy was awesome! In fact, they milked it just right with the "old days" references, as well as showing an old medic set in his old days ways. There were obviously no homos on the FD back in his day! I hope to see him make some more cameos, if not even become the Division Chief, who occasionally shows up. What was really funny was calling Tyler (or was it Glenn? Them metrosexuals all look alike to me.) "sideburns". Anyone who's ever seen EMERGENCY! knows why that's so funny! At the end, when the captain said everyone knew who he was, and brought him in to applause, that was pretty cool, because you know that was stepping outside of the show to nod back to EMERGENCY!

It never is, until it is.

Only at the very last place I worked street EMS did we ever use cabinet tags. It's a great idea in theory. But like CrapMagnet, everything is still getting checked, if it's not my initials on the current tag. I've seen the system fail one too many times.

Now if only the script writers will learn what the difference is.