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It is quite ridiculous ... The people who are making these mistakes should be fired ..

Anyone else notice Terri always wants the hook up?

Farooq is a long time Medic in the streets something like 17 years if I'm remembering properly, and I think he has great intentions but I don't know how i feel about injecting street culture into a Professional Medical Service.

guilty as sin have you ever wanted to give terri a huge hug

1 I agree completely there will be holes and we need to do our best to plug them, if this means up triaging en route by going L&S so be it. 2 This job was a major foul up, there wasn't even transit PD, just the conductor and station attendant, and all they cared about was an ACR number 3 Priority 5 is non-critical injury, priority 7 is a minor injury (Gosh I spend too much time on an ambulance to remember all this haha) 4 Should have been a Major trauma, (If memory serves priority 2) and all resources as we both stated seemed necessary 5 I don't follow up on my jobs that closely, I never looked for it in the paper or online. We were able to finish the job with the engine company and my unit. It was a difficult vertical but we accomplished it. I'll take a look around, but the patients last name is escaping me, I will have to ask my partner to see if he remembers.

Don't be a hater just because they fired you ... I'm sure everyone on here will agree what you did was not professional and there is no room for that in this profession. FYI have you seen the new midwood flier? Your co-conspirator and your old partner (and mine for that matter) is on it.

Getting hit in the head by a moving train is considered a bumped head to you ? Obviously you never worked in a system with a subway as the vertical challenge(multiple flights of stairs where pedestrians are still walking) alone requires a minimum of 4 people to successfully and safely remove a patient on a long board. Other thing is you must not be thinking about response times, 100 city blocks takes a good 30 min. with medium to light traffic and no L&S. An engine crew can be on scene in under 5 min. Supervisors are sent on jobs like this for many reasons I wont pretend to know them all I do know is If the supervisor is there with the Engine company they can initiate patient care while the ALS and BLS get to the scene. Here none of the firefighters are EMT's or Paramedics or even if they are they are not working in that capacity and usually equipment is limited to an oxygen bag. By people who are you referring to? Are you referring to the people who complain about our 6-8 minute average response time not being quick enough ?

Congrats!

Scoob stop being so lazy and do his research for him ... gosh

No matter how we look at it ... bottom line dispatch systems and dispatchers aren't always perfect ... You need to treat every call as an emergency until you can without a doubt justify there not be a reason for lights and sirens, a few weeks ago I responded to a priority 7 which here in NYC is no L&s ... for someone with a "minor injury" The job text read "minor injury in subway" Upon arrival we come to find out the Patient had a seizure and was falling onto the "tracks" as a train was on coming, the moving train struck him in the head and as he fell back on the platform after being struck it spun him around and sure enough hit him in the head again. Certainly if our dispatch system worked a little better and they knew the situation they wouldn't have sent a BLS crew 100+ city blocks away no L&S, they would send the closest BLS and ALS and a supervisor, plus an engine crew. Upon your arrival and seeing the patient make your determination if you need L&S making that judgment call without seeing the patient is irresponsible at best.

Guilty who hasnt looked back and wanted to do things differently on a call ?

guilty ever had real feelings for someone from the forum?

You think he would have at least spelled hemorrhoid right ..

he knows about the hemorrhoid tool from personal experience?

not guilty Ever cheated in a relationship ?

Guilty Or Not Guilty**, basically answer and ask !! The object of this game is to ask a question, then someone answers it by saying **Guilty Or Not Guilty** Then leaves a new question for the next poster. Ever cheated on an exam?

AS I said in another thread .. Semper fi to my fellow Marines And thank you too our soldiers and armed forces personnel that have served past and present

Semper fi Marines and thx to the rest of our soldiers and armed forces veterans and those currently serving.

Oh come on now, we all know you're the one with the pole in your house!

Congrats

1 call a year?

Its cool to see things like this in the news .. wonder why we don't see any articles about the failed attempts? lol

This is all quite interesting, parental rights vs. well being of child. I think the entire family should undergo psych evals, if all are within "norms" the family should be able to decide how to take care of the child, and the child should give his input as well.

http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/27/21/2607 http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/20/2/101.full http://jic.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/25

I'm a bit confused is there a code that says you must have a sprinkler system ? Perhaps even a proposal that you can link us to, I've never heard of this ...