Nate

Did he have a watch on? I once had a patient who was DOA and while getting my strip his cell phone went off and it picked up on the monitor...also had their watch "ticks" show up as well.

If you give a soft kick and it hurts your foot...its dead. (Joke for those who don't know what one is.)

It gets old dealing with pyscho guys that wig out when their girl is on shift and they aren't there to be up her butt.

Oh I don't usually have to worry about telling them they stink, PD or the hospital is more than happy to thell them that.

Um, spray it on them, not on your lip. :roll:

Could just bust out with some glade spray.

Every time I've had to do the whole child birth thing and the woman had a rain forest going on down there.

We just transport them a good ways to the Texas Medical Center and off load at the county hospital...takes them about a week to walk back to the city. :wink:

Nate's current list of trucks: 2003 Chevrolet Xtreme that sits about 2 3/4" off the ground and will give most sports cars a run for there money. (Show truck only.) 2005 Cevrolet Colorado Crewcab and my daily driver to work is a 1998 Suzuki Sidekick (SUV).

Opera, enough said.

When I looked into the degree and saw that it would set me back from getting my biology degree, that I would have to retake EMT-B (because I earned mine while in high school), that some of my classes would have to be taken over because they weren't for the allied health professional, I saw it was pointless. The whole degree thing is great, I support it; but I think they need to require a degree that is worth something and requires you to take some actual science classes other then A&P and Biology and basic college math (for a degree here in Texas). I've always said it should be a four year degree similar to nursing in regards to chem, physics, micro, A&P, psych, soci, trig, and calc. Up until a year ago anyone with a college degree (60 hours or more) could get LP status here in Texas (licensed paramedic). The thing is that there is no difference between what an LP is taught and what a certified paramedic is taught here in Texas. They still get the same paramedic course, still can do the same skills, etc. So why should there be a pay difference and a skills reduction for the certified paramedic when the one with a degree is no better off and in my case I hold more credit hours in advanced maths and sciences then what is required for the LP patch.

Thats how I am.

OMG, someone call Dr. Phil!

Yeah, this whole thing sounds like yet another waste of money. I seriously hope they don't expect those of us that are "certified" paramedics to take a reduction in pay/promotions/and skills simply because we don't have some bull sh*t 2 year degree that is not worth jack sh*t. Give me a degree plan that is worth somthing and I'll take the time to get it, but an AAS in EMS is worthless around here if you ask me. Heck there isn't even any chemistry, let alone organic or micro.

I have to agree with some of the posts above. When you mix long work hours, a station with beds, and generally only you and your partner there; that is a sure thing for something if the people are attracted to each other. I've worked with women and men; and generally I usually know more about both of them then their wives/husbands. Around the Houston area about 98% of the women are women you wouldn't want to sleep with (ugly, STDs, or general hoes) and the same goes for the men. I don't tolerate medics that over do the flirting (be it in the station or at a hosptial), nor do we allow visitors at the station past 2100 and they aren't allowed for any reason in the bunk room. I know of several fellow medics (male) that have had their wives have affairs on them while they were at work. Generally we see more of that here then affairs at the work place (most people that date/have sex around here are single).

We just stopped carrying it...only a few of us even used it. ETA to ER anywhere in the City is 5 minutes at the most. (Unless an airplane crashed in the middle of the road.)

Wow :shock:

Welcome from Texas.

Ami was a PITA to use the one time I used it...but I see its benefits; I just prefer a prefilled over drawing up.

Strict and DUI...most states take your license away if you have a DUI. I've had my fair share of traffic court dates, a few for street racing on closed off roads back when I was in high school; but that shows nothing about my ability to drive. You can look a driving record and see nothing and think they are a great driver; you can look at another person and see a lot of tickets and think they are a bad driver. I don't know about everyone here, but how I drive my cars and trucks outside of work is little more "free" then how I drive my ambulance. If I'm on an open road with a banked curve and no traffic I'll take full advantage of it (gotta love a tuned suspension), but if I'm in the ambulance...no way.

Werd, I'm with stupid.

Isn't a vacation normally something you do to get away from work, and with work being an expo...wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a vacation?

Well today I got a survey in the mail from NREMT asking me to fill it out. Since I had nothing better to do, I went a head and did it. Now I'm making a post to find out if anyone else filled it out.

Usually that is the case, you are dispatched to one thing; turns out to be another thing. People and even dispatch don't always know what is going on.

It is all in the driver IMHO. I've been with medics who took longer to run emergency traffic then they would if they weren't going emergency traffic because of the simple fact that they don't know where to put the ambulance to avoid heavy traffic. They will get themselves caught up in the right or center lanes instead of staying to the left. (When you hit that center or right lane, traffic doesn't know where to go.) I don't feel that I have an increased risk for accident because I usually jump all over who ever is driving me for not stoping at stop signs, red lights, and intersections. I believe that our lights and sirens are a way of letting people know we are going to be where they are pretty soon, not a shield that people are going to magically stop for me. To many people think that just because you turn your lights and sirens on that people are going to suddenly bow down to you. I don't transport emergency traffic very often though, you have to be pretty messed up for me to run emergency traffic to the hospital.