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Sorry... have been busy working (apparently everyone forgets how to drive when snow hits...). I do have a room booked for the night of the 3rd in the revised hotel that Dust posted about and I'm glad to share with Alex.

I'm coming in on the afternoon or evening of the 3rd, going to the CAP lab on the 4th, and leaving on the 4th afterwards. I'm happy to share a room as long as me being there only one night doesn't make that more challenging logistically.

Reservation made for Huber Heights. I'll be coming in during the afternoon/evening of the 3rd.

Opps... I haven't been following the thread lately. To Dust's question on shirt size: S. As for the hotel, are you guys sticking with the Hampton Inn - Dayton Souith or is there one closer to the university? I just want to make sure before I make reservations so I don't need to change them.

York EMS does not use the ITD. Toronto EMS does carry them but Fire does not.

Could you please expand on your comment about it taking a long time to get in? What do you mean by this? Is there though competition for spots? Do they hire and then drag their feet on orientation and getting people working? Are their education requirements so strict it takes a while before you can even apply? I am curious to know.

Don't kick yourself, kick your coordinator.

I don't mean to pull the thread too much off topic, but what does a city do when an ambulance provider pulls out of their city? How much warning did they have?

Just out of curiosity, what is the intended lesson that the class will learn from this assignment?

Do coroners investigate more than deaths in Australia? Yes, it sounds like questions could be raised about the care provided but I think that it is going over the top to make the implication that it was life threatening.

She didn't just get a fire extinguisher and use it, she put herself at risk and got in the car. And maybe I should have better phrased the above quote to "...does anyone else see it as somewhat strange that someone is being honoured for doing what they were trained to not do?" Most seem to be focussing on the fact that she did something good and everything went well. What about if things had gone wrong and she had been injured trying to help? Should she be subject to punishment then?

You don't need a card to be able to do CPR though...

Going by what we were all trained in, the scene was not safe and she should have waited. I'm not saying that this is what I would have done, but if we are talking about strictly following training then this is what she should have done.

From: http://mississauga.com/article/20546 I don't mean to take away from what she did because it obviously had a positive outcome, but does anyone else see it as somewhat strange that someone is being honoured for doing what they were not trained to do? The quote from the director seems to be especially carefully worded to not say that this is what she was trained to do. I know that this is not that unusual an occurrence and she went "beyond the call of duty" but it raises some questions in my mind. What if she had been injured in her attempt and was unsuccessful at getting the driver out? Would she have been reprimanded for entering what was nowhere near a safe environment?

Are you in the GTA?

You can use a 15 passenger van (or equivalent sized cargo van also, I believe). And no, I do not know of any driving school that teaches with an ambulance.

Is 21 the age of consent in the US?

I enjoy my work most when I get paid to sit at my base for all 12 hours and study.

Is it worth risking lives when it won't benefit patients? No. Do lives need to be risked for HEMS? No. End competition among air ambulance providers. Require two pilots and two engines. End scene responses at night without NVG.

Well this video has me convinced. I'm quitting my job to go volunteer in NJ. Does anyone know what insurance these people have if they get a career ending injury? And by this I don't mean their EMS volunteer "career" but maybe a back injury that stops them from being able to perform their actual job. Probably not the thing that all those 18 year olds are thinking about...

The wage in Toronto for a Primary Care Paramedic is around $30 an hour, but work is difficult to find.

With just two responders and a very heavy patient I have found the tracks useful even just for the small sets of steps.

Canada has universal healthcare but the Canada Health Act definitions do not include ambulance rides as a medical necessity so they do not need to be covered by the provinces who actually pay for the care. This means that even if you were brought to the hospital in Ontario unconscious with a heart rate of 22 you would still be billed $45 for the ride (and that is just because OHIP pays for a good chunk of it even though they are under no obligation to under the CHA).

Are you able to say who exactly this is that has offered the job? To me it sounds like basically a first aid training company. Not to sound too negative, but no matter how much you like teaching, first aid is not the most exciting thing to teach, especially for a paramedic who knows that most of what you're teaching doesn't matter. If this were more like a college instructor position where you would be teaching paramedic students I would probably be much more positive about it for the reasons that others have mentioned. If you drop down to PT, do you maintain your seniority to be able to get a FT spot back if you change your mind?

It really isn't that uncommon compared to what most people would imagine.