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did he fall asleep on the couch in mommy's basement with the remote underneath his butt?

What type of car does he have ???? Why ::::::: you wonder? Trying to have sex in a kia or volt would cause anyone back pain. OK being serious now:: What events led up to this pain yesterday morning. Did he do any heavy lifting or other strenuous work ? Any contact sports? any prior history of similar pain? Any shortening or rotation of left leg? Any difficulty moving his left leg through full range of motion? Any protrusion or displacement of hip / pelvis? distal pulses? Any obvious injury visible? Yes we need to look at his butt cheek Abdominal exam shows????

I'm pretty sure he's moved on to another website where they will blow smoke up his arse and tell him how cool he is to be protecting the universe from the evil empire and al queda in the foothills of colorado. What it really sounds like to me : he & his buds are going out on a recon mission to hijack some primo high mountain green bud at the source. From what I gather watching the news, a few blocks in Denver are now the bud capitol of the US in retail. I always did like pot heads. much mellower to deal with then the drinkers ,pill poppers coke heads or meth addicts.

Damn Ruf::: Thats funny shit , Even for you !!!

Well that took a little research as we don't have Zopiclone in the U.S.. We do have a derivative in LUNESTA. Reading from a couple of drug sites for info on the drug , could she have taken alcohol with it? Is she sure it was only 1 & 1/2 pills? the side affect profile seems consistent with that presentation, including heart palpitations & bradycardia. Obviously you need to assess and rule in/out cardiac origin and treat as appropriate for S&S. I'd do a 12 lead and see what it shows along with a little O's and start a line just for insurance before transporting. Strictly anecdotal info::: My dealing with folks taking LUNESTA is they present as somnolent & whacked out in a deep almost coma type stupor. Zombie like almost. Had one pt that had gotten as far as their car and crashed in the woods along driveway. Absolutely no memory of anything since taking the drug 2 hours earlier.

without a doubt that would be a true OH SHIT moment when you pulled up on scene to find that. Probably just as bad when the trauma team takes delivery from the EMS crew and has to put out a page for a carpenter to help with surgery

OK : I'll play since no one else wants to start. Not acting appropriately how? Slurred speech? balance problems? memory loss? dysphagia? Altered mental status? Up at 2 am ::: why? what was she doing prior to fall? syncopy History? vitals ? new onset?

OR ::: maybe they're just smoking crack as usual

did have a fellow that stuck the barrel of a .410 up under his neck just below the ear and pulled the trigger. very small entry hole and no blood exit. Did bulge his eyes a slight bit.

I'm not 100% sure, but the first time It was sent to me it came from an instructor friend who at the time worked at Maine Medical trauma center in Portland..Late 1990's / early 2000's time frame

what she's really thinking to herself while fluffing her hair just so:; WOW He's really got some wood.

Thats a really old photo Doc: at least 15 years since that circulated the first time. They put the collar on while waiting for the hosers to get the chain saw out to cut the pole off The hottie now has grey hair , grandkids and 38longs if ya get my drift

Only if they might have been already dead when they received the "fatal " GSW.

she must take after her mother: She's tooooo cute to look like you

An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger." The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, "What would you want to talk about?" "Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?" as he smiled smugly. "Okay," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?" The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don't know shit?" And then she went back to reading her book.

As I always say: You just can't cure stupid ! I had a little chuckle when I heard this on the news yesterday

Congratulations UGLY & Mrs. Been wondering where you had gotten to.

Why did the chicken cross the road??? SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because, gosh-darn it, he's a maverick! BARACK OBAMA: Let me be perfectly clear, if the chickens like their eggs they can keep their eggs. No chicken will be required to cross the road to surrender her eggs. Period. JOHN McCAIN: My friends, the chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road. HILLARY CLINTON: What difference at this point does it make why the chicken crossed the road. GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or against us. There is no middle ground here. DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun? COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road. BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. AL GORE: I invented the chicken. JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it. AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he is acting by not taking on his current problems before adding any new problems. OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross the road so badly. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a NEW CAR so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens. ANDERSON COOPER: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road. NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks. PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American. MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way the chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information. DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told. ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone. JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken was gay. If you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the Liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that. GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us. BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish it's lifelong dream of crossing the road. ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace. BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2013, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2013. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken? COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

You shouldn't find yourself exposed to bodily fluids while on a ride along . The normal uniform in most places is dark blue or black pants and a polo or dress shirt. You want to present yourself in a professional manner to both the crew you will be riding with, the management and the public you might be dealing with.. EMT-B is a short class that usually lasts one semester [150 hours]

Welcome to the city: 1 . As a rule I recommend that folks take the EMT-B course and "try out" what it takes to be involved in EMS. Seen too many folks go straight to Paramedic school $$$$$$ , only to find out that they can't deal with blood or vomit or screaming people and decide that this is not the profession for them. 2. It depends : you were a juvenile and most juvie records are sealed by the court. However when you go before the state to apply for an EMS license they will do a full background check and it may appear at that point. They will also ask if you ever had charges against you or arrests on your record. To answer no and have that pop up in a background check would possibly be a reason not to issue you a license to practice. Check with your state EMS office for the definitive answer. 3 . Pay scales vary widely around the country. I know of places that start at $9.00/hr and others that start @ $20.00/hr. it varies widely around the country as to pay & benefits available to EMS providers. Dress neat clean and professional. If your worried about getting dirty , then this may not be the field for you. Good luck and remember to do what they tell you while on a call, it's your safety they are concerned about.

Sent to me by a woman (naturally): The Amazing Human Body It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 6.6 pounds. The average man's _____ () is two times the length of his thumb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. Women blink twice as often as men. The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. Women will be finished reading this by now. Men are still busy checking their thumbs.

It is hard not to believe multiple people with the same claims and witnessed by many, all pointing to the same lack of response from the Fire employees after being repeatedly asked for help. This is not the first time DCfire had dropped the ball and let people die. Their reputation is right up there with philly fire

The problem is : : : Normal folks don't have a clue what we really do on an average day. They only see the tv news or shows where everyone lives with a little CPR or oxygen. I tend to be bad when asked " THE Question " They don't get to see the calls that become our nightmares. the traumatic senseless deaths, The young children abused, by those trusted to care for them The young teen who drove into the bridge abutment,killing himself and 5 others & scattering body parts all over the highway the 14 year old girl who hemorrhaged to death in the basement of a tenement while giving birth to a baby fathered by her father. the middle aged guy who was diagnosed with cancer & stuck a 12 ga in his throat and pulled both triggers, the little 3 yr old daughter of a friend who was warming herself by the woodstove early one winter morning, when her night gown burst into flames and melted into her skin, the hours of listening to her scream after all the morphine we had wouldn't/ couldn't stop the pain. even though she had enough onboard to kill a horse. There you want some of my nightmares ?? I've got many more you moron, cubicle rat Go ahead and ask away my uninformed friend edit for spelling

Well:I am a former military member with plenty of time in. What you are asking us is will the state allow you to practice prehospital medicine without medical control. are you not assigned a medical MOS??? Then you are a first aider with the basic military training in combat lifesaving or ???? If you are an active member of the military then the state has no control over what you do in the military or a military training exercise. Your medical direction should be coming from your military chain of command , who will tell you what you are allowed to have as a scope of practice.

Retiree's Message As I was lying in bed pondering the problems of the world, I rapidly realized that I don't really give a rat's hiney. It's the tortoise life for me! And here is why. 1. If walking is good for your health, the postman would be immortal. 2. A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water, and is fat. 3. A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years. 4. A tortoise doesn't run and does nothing, yet it lives for 450 years. And you tell me to exercise? I don't think so. I'm retired. Go around me.