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LMAO! That is the funniest thing ever! Which one is Dust? The one with the paddles that aren't connected to anything?

Is that why they cal you scar?..lmao I had a very embarrassing situation involving paramedics, I wasn't the pt but i still thought i should humiliate myself more and tell you all about it. I was a lifeguard at an outdoor pool, and we were having a morning inservice training before the pool opened.(BTW I was in college to become a paramedic at the time). Just outside the pool there is a bike path, and while we are in the pool area we hear a big crash. Two cyclists crashed into each other. So my pool manager the wanker that he is (He is actually a great guy, but still a wanker) grabs all the equipment that he can, and goes running out there. Of course he makes me go with him, while someone else calls for an ambulance. The PT had some head trauma and other relatively minor injuries and the other PT involved was uninjured and refused treatment. So we did a primary survey and some initial TX etc.. The ambulance gets there and there are two male paramedics and they ask for a report, which i give a little awkwardly due to the fact that i am still in my bathing suit in the middle of a bike path. :oops: It was quite embarrassing, and somehow I don't think the paramedics were really listening to the report. :shock:

Thanks for the replies guys. Follow up question....So if the pt has JVD while sitting at 90 degree angle it is indicative of relatively more severe back up, so to speak? Meaning right heart failure or pulmonary HTN etc etc.

Did you not apply for or were you not accepted to Humber? It's the best.

JVD. Why must it assessed with pt sitting at 45 degree angle? I can't get a straight answer out of anybody. Is this just an arbitrary number or what? Share your wisdom. BTW.. I do understand why it can't be assessed with pt supine, but why not with pt sitting?

Are these the diagnostic criteria? :-k What is the treatment for "Estrogen issues"? I seem to have quite a sever case. :crybaby: Is it terminal? :shock:

Actualy jw is right. He was paraphrasing the Ontario protocols for pcp's for "suspected hypoglycemia" to administer glucagon. Recheck, or i can send them to you if you would like, and show them to your form reviewer person. According to these protocols a BS check is necessary for pt #1 and could be justified for pt #2. Where do you work? Sounds more messed up then here ( I didn't think that was possible)...LMAO Oh, also the protocols just became much loser for BS checks, so get the most recent version if you can. I f not talk to your BH doc. I'm sure they will not consider what you are doing to be any kind of error. Anyhoo, good luck wading throught the BS (and I don't mean blood sugar).

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Very nice. Do more! :laughing9: I loved it.

Damn..........Does that count? I have done that at least half a dozen times. It's funny how people actually seem to notice the emerge lights when it isn't an emergency. You get much higher pull-over compliance when you don't need to be somewhere.

Guys! SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH you're blowing my cover! But seriously, my sex (or lack thereof) is completely irrelevant to this topic. Sooo, Google is not an option, because I am not searching for any information. I am asking that you justify your opinions and statements. But just for you I googled "nwoparamedics opinions" and came up with this LINK BTW I like dobermans too. You agree (no matter how buried) that all EMS systems are publicly funded. I think you may be missing my point. My point is, being that EMS is publicly funded it is not the paramedics responsibility to acquire financial information. In fact, I'll go one step further and say that regardless of whether health care is private or publicly funded, it is not the primary care providers place to inquire about a Pt's financial status. Doing so opens the door to all those nasty convoluted issues I was referring to earlier. Such as, a potential conflicts of interests and discrimination. I don't know about you but I will not willingly open myself up to accusations of this nature. And really, a pt would have every right to become suspicious of a care providers motives. They may in fact even be justified suspicions. This is what I didn't really want to get into, just for my own personal laziness. But if we must, we must. The original poster clearly stated that they were being requested to acquire this information from their Pt's to make billing easier. My point is that the potential harm in asking for this type of information far outweighs the potential benefits, and they would not be my benefits anyway. As a paramedic billing is not my problem. It is not my job. And it should not be. As I said before. If the billing system they are currently using is not effective without resorting to these means, then his employer should find another way of doing billing. For example, by finding out how other provinces achieve the same goal. Evidently you can provide much information on this topic to this person. I however, don't care at this point. I stand by my original statement. Yours truly, Hammer

Good. Now no one else gets to see him either.

Not really a phobia, but an aversion, or dislike, or intolerance maybe is a better word. :shock: I can't handle cardboard being folded or ripped, either the sound or the feel of it. And I can absolutely not handle the feeling of unfinished wood or smooth concrete on my feet. ICK! :pukeright: These are like 'nails on a chalk board' for me.

Here goes..............Orientated..Why put the extra syllable in there? It irks me to no end. (And yes I know it can be found in the dictionary) Just make it simple : "Pt was alert and oriented". #2 Larnyx is not a word people! The Word you are trying to say is LARYNX! The Y precedes the N. #3 This isn't a saying but it drives me mad. NO I do not need your (bystander/family) help to do this lift. And even if I did need help I would not be asking you. So screw off. Do you really think that I rely on the kindness of strangers to perform my job?

Two things.... One:Where? What emergency ambulance service in Canada does not receive public monies? And two: Of course I am right. And three (okay, three things):How are the other provinces services "drastically different"? Could you justify that statement with some examples?

Is this about fire fighting? I don't think so. Very nice poetry Punisher. Keep at it.

OK.......see the problem here is that you posed this questing to a room full of Americans. In Canada it is absolutely not your role as a paramedic (or whatever you call yourselves out your way) to be inquiring in any way shape or form about the Pt's financial status. It brings up soooooo many nasty convoluted issues to do so. And if the only reason is to make your billing persons life easier, that's not a good reason. I would absolutely refuse to ask any pt this question. If you are on social assistance here, then you don't get any bill. If you are employed/ earning your own money, then you pay 45$ per call. Some how they accomplish billing without us, as paramedics, ever inquiring about financial status. Why don't you find out how they manage to pull that off here (Ontario). Or better yet, tell your boss to do his job and figure it out himself.

I am also wearing a blue shirt! LMAO Eric, This one is good! I ate a goat because I'm sexy and I do what I want. A little stringy and tough but it tasted good damn it. :laughing3:

Did you forget that we're in the 51st state? :wink: 39% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee. :roll:

LMAO That is sick!

Thanks Mike.

Maybe the idea of recontextualizing this story is so that it reaches a broader audience. Or maybe it's just the Bible thumpers subversive attempt at propaganda. :wink:

Where did you find this article?

LMAO! That is classic!