scott33

Was the patient a dwarf?

http://www.rbcfc.com/thelosapgroup/custom.htm

OK, here is a different spin... As well as other things, I am a volly and I get the following: A break on housing tax (about $1,500 a year), LOSAP, a shit load of expensive uniforms and non uniform clothing, as many free CME courses as you can sign up for such as ACLS, PHTLS, PALS, PEPP, AMLS etc, full reimbursement for a paramedic course, gift vouchers at Christmas, All-expense paid parties, the use of Chief cars for the likes of shopping trips (well we are in a recession), the use of the free gymnasium in the firehouse (some also have saunas, bars, and games rooms) and as much free food you can eat from the never-ending refrigerator. I am sure we all agree that I am worth every penny of the tax payers money :roll:

You are obviously not cut out for EMS.

We use them too. With the ET tubes now having the capnometry adapter as well as the res-q-pod, it can resemble a Christmas tree at times (complete with lights). It will be interesting to see some concrete results of the ongoing trials regarding this device, but the chance of survival, post arrest, will still come down to early detection and defibrillation; res-q-pod or not.

Ignoring the first half complex... Complex 1, 2, and 3 are equal in duration. The distance between complex 4, and 5 is the same as between 2, and 4 Complexes 5, 6, and 7 are equal in duration, but longer than complexes 1, 2, and 3 Can't see any pattern to complexes 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 No discernable p-waves (anything which may be assumed to be P-waves are not repeated subsequently in a similar morphology) narrow QRS, and irregular rhythm which possibly, just possibly, has a degree of repitition to it, though no apparent predictable trends are noticeable. Otherwise, irregularly irregular. A-fib till proven otherwise

Well I was going to name it Colin, but I think I will agree with AF.

You are a waste of time and space. Piss off

Were you bullied at school? Perhaps forced to wear short pants up till 10th grade?

Beat me to it DD There are many of us here who have absolutely no affiliation with the FD, and are happy to keep it that way. Seeing as this is an EMS forum, do you still stand by your quoted figures? :roll:

Guy's, He is a Troll, pure and simple. All these posts in such a small space of time, and nothing to do with clinical practice (in spite of all those years as an ambulance driver). Personally, I love to wring one out when I am duty. It is one of the reasons I joined and I will be buggered if anyone is going to take that right away from me. So put your hands together for our latest Troll.

It is also a nurse's duty to educate their patients, and that sometimes includes tactfully getting the point across to known time wasters, that they are abusing the system.

Do you suggest the answer for those not wishing to live under the Democratic party, is to move to somewhere run by a Socialist government?

Did she ever ask you to "tap [her] a fag!"?

point taken One of our traveling nurses came from "the south"...forgive me but I forget which state, as I only enquired once seeing as we only worked together a few times. But it was very nice to listen to, and a break from the coarseness of NY. The UK has it's fair share of "lower social end" accents and dialects, and no one really speaks the traditional "BBC" way. I used to play this (below) when I got home sick, and it snapped me out of it. A disgruntled young scally-wag from my roots (Glasgow, Scotland, UK) - and yes, it IS in English, albeit with heavy local dialect and slang terminology.

I know you meant Mel Blanc. I have confused them both myself before now.

Definitely lots of different regional accents on the US, but all pretty easy to comprehend due to the lack of isolated slang terminology. I find Lawn Guy Land talk becomes pretty easy to mimic if you just try to "tawk" while chewing gum, or sliding in an unnecessary "W" into words like coffee (cwoffee) office, (Owfiss), or my least favorite, that mecca of vacational hot spots, Montauk (Mawn-tawk).

As a British expat living in the States, while it may be common to expect everyone to speak English who comes to the US, it should be noted that "English" and American English are two different languages with many similarities. Talk to any real English-speaking individual from anywhere in England, or the rest of the UK, and you will probably find yourself struggling to understand what they are saying. British English is not as basic as American English, and is peppered with slang terminology going back many hundreds of years. Profanity is also part of the language in certain social circles (and yes the dreaded C-word has many different meanings and uses in British English...and while we are down there, it is impossible to poop out of your "fanny" :roll: ). I could name any major City in Britian, where the dialect is so heavy, it would be hard for other natives of differing cities to understand, and impossible for your average Yank. (Newcastle, Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Aberdeen [forget it], parts of Devon and Cornwall, Birmingham etc, etc). Oh, and the Gecko on the Gicko commercial is supposed to be English - Cockney to be precise. Please don't call him Australian, it annoys me. Also, the guy who plays House, is an English comedian putting on a fake accent, that only brits seem to be able to spot, though obviously more convincing than Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent in Mary Poppins. How many will admit to understanding the vocabulary in one of Guy Richie's movie, or if you think you can handle Scottish, Trainspotting WITHOUT the subtitles. I fully agree that those who come to the US should learn the native language, just need to come up with a proper name for it as "English" it is not. Wikipedia has a good article on the main differences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_...ing_differences Rant over :evil:

Rehydrated with what? Amiodarone? Rapid infusion of Fosters Lager PO. Treat and release, job done!

Agreed. Sure - as long as your employer, who will probably stand to lose $$$'s with every non-transport, and the physician who's license you are making these decisions under, are on the same page as you are. I fully support the treat and release / treat and refer model of EMS delivery, but do you see the catch?

Would it be wrong to crank one out to the video? (just wanna know)

Yes.

Someone has been studying for their NYC MAC :wink:

Both fire trucks stopped.