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You know, not for nuthin', as they say around the coffee shop, but how come when a man does something bad, he's evil, and when a woman does something bad, there's a syndrome involved. I'm not saying postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis don't exist, but I am saying that when a woman does something that hurts or injures her children, I believe the perception is more along the lines that she *must* have some illness or disease rather than just being an evil maniac if a man did it. Take Andrea Yates, for instance. If a father had drowned his children in the bathtub, would we have had any great debates on whatever psychological problems he had, or would we pretty much agreed to forgoe the trial and drag him out into the street and have him shot?

You know, I apologize if anyone really takes offense at this video. Granted, there were some disturbing images, adn yeah, the cameraman was being a dick, but honestly, when I viewed it I didn't think it was any worse than anything I've seen on COPS.

Last night a horrible fire broke out in an apartment complex in the bronx, killing 8 children. The untold story is the valiant efforts of FDNY firefighters and EMS who worked together in freezing cold temperatures and saved several occupants. This video shows some of those efforts. For easy identification, the ones in tan turnout coats are EMS, the ones in black turnout coats are firefighters. This video is hard to watch, I should warn you, there are images of small children being worked on. However, it makes me very proud to be part of the system I am in. Before anyone starts nitpicking on BSI or procedures and stuff, please bear in mind that the patients were literally being pulled out and dropped out of windows into the night air which was in the teens with the windchill pushing it below zero. Unfortunately, I can't imbed it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-oW9Zm_N8Y

Even though it's cheesy, I always had a thing for his and hers EMS necklaces. If they are tastefully done, maybe with a little inscription on the back, they can be memorable.

Yeah, the article on that one nearly made me lose my coffee all over the newspaper. Remember, folks, you need a license to own a dog but not a license to have a child. I hope the poor kid will be all right, the article I read said he was doing fine and recovering.

Now this is is my favorite EMS song: [/ram] Now before you get all up in my and Mr. Flav's grill, you have to understand what 911 response in the inner cities was like when this video was made. Plus its a good song.

Yeah, staying awake was the hardest part for me. Of course I fell asleep during my last medic refresher too. I ask you, how many times can you listen to the lecture on soft tissue injuries in your career before drifting off?

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I know, and its a pretty cool show too. However, I am awaiting the post honoring the "brave men who go toe to toe with the brown, briney smelling devils". See, Michael, its posts like that that make us do one of these :roll: whenever someone feels the need to do another firemonkey tribute.

Sorry, I still don't buy the kiss ass and wait ten years to start an IV theory of paramedicine. Being an EMT sucks, and anyone with the knowledge, talent, and drive to be a paramedic should be allowed to work as one. I mean, after my paramedic class, and some field training, I can say I was pretty adequately prepared to care for the critically sick and injured. Of course, I have learned a great deal on the job since then, but coming out of my course and the academy, I can say that I was pretty set to work. Maybe I'm just a genius. Nahhhhh. Boston over does it. But then again if I spent that much time having to suffer before being allowed to work, I guess I'd have to delude myself into thinking my system is extra special too. Its better than realizing I wasted a good portion of my life.

My question is when is Dateline going to do a sting operation on these kiddie beauty pageants? Because, in my opinion, anyone who dresses their six year old daughter up as a Vegas show girl or has them wearing daisy dukes needs to be put away.

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My question is, if rednecks really are such great soldiers, why did the South lose so badly? :twisted:

Yet, with all this, your kids are still far, far, far more likely to get molested by a relative. That's the facts, jacks, you can put satellite monitors on these guys, statistically speaking, kids will be no safer. Rape, child molestation, sex crimes, these are done by friends and relatives, not the stranger down the block.

Look, there's a difference between letting "any nitwit" coming in off the street and letting a qualified and experienced provider get depressed and discouraged by having to do BLS all the time. I'd also like to see this "40%" save rate. If their save rate is really that high either someone's playing with the data or Boston is not getting people with serious illnesses to the hospital before they arrest in the street. Maybe they carry IV's full of "The good lord Jesus"??? Look, there is really only so much you can learn at the BLS level, then you need to move on and start practicing your ALS skills and assessment. Your splinting skills can only get so good. Not only that, but there are far better measures of an EMS service's efficacy than its prehospital save rate. Let's say your 40% save rate is accurate. We'll also say I have the winning number for Megamillions in my pocket and Santa Claus is my real dad, but we'll play in your world. I would like to see the rates on other things that ALS is handy for, like what is their rate of people laying screaming on a stretcher in a BLS ambulance because no one can manage the pain? What is the rate of CHF patient's filling up with fluid because medical director Edwin J. Stuckworth just doesn't fancy some people? You see where I'm going with this? BTW, I think the name Edwin J. Stuckworth is pretty darn funny, if I do say so myself.

The only thing I raise my eyebrows to is the notion of working for years as an EMT to become a Boston paramedic, that just smacks of New England old school Harvard type elitism. Oh... right.

That's why he has the MD.

Twenty Five. I think I missed the China question.

To answer your question, if, at an MVA, radiation alarms start going off, yes, we will evacuate and wait for the Hazmat team. Its scene safety, and pretty much the first thing they teach you in EMT class. We have also had patients who have had radioiodine procedures done set off the radiation alarms. When they mention the testing, we usually get a good chuckle and go about our business. Each EMS provider in the FDNY system is now trained to the level of Hazmat operations, and is given a "real class" regarding radiation source, type, rate, etc. To avoid confusion, you really should do some research into what training is available before you pass judgement on people's knowledge of radiological emergencies. In short, theory pretty much is that it is better to have the bus load of tiny schoolchildren nuns irradiated and maybe even some exsanguination on scene than irradiated nuns, irradiated paramedics, irradiated ambulances, and ER staff and maybe someone who didn't bleed to death. Hazmat is a scary subject, full of levels of acceptable losses and use of deadly force by police on people to prevent them from contaminating others. Losing the busload of nuns would be the least of our concerns in a large scale incident.

Look, don't get me wrong, its not that I hate the firemonkeys, I mean, really, just the opposite. Its just that the whole little cottage industry of overglorifying the firemonkeys gets on my nerves. Its gotten out of hand, folks. It started off with some nice knick knacks here and there, a cute little poem even, but now, its spun out of control, and its just needs to stop. Everyone take a giant step backwards. We lose more people each year fishing for Alaskan King Crabs than we do firefighting. Yet there are no gaudy airbrushed T-shirts 'honoring' them. In the same vein, my beloved grandfather, god rest his soul, for a while made his living retiling the inside of blast furnaces. The thing about blast furnaces is that you can't just turn them off to fix them, so you can imagine the working conditions. He didn't get to sit around between jobs, and yeah, a lot of people actually got hurt and killed doing it, and they did it without wearing a patch or a t-shirt or needing a figurine honoring their profession. So everyone, do your damn job, get over yourself, enough with the syrupy videos, or I'm going to need to get myself a Novolin prescription, capiche? Wait, I got one more in me... STUPID FIREMONKEYS!!!

TO PHOOEY WITH OVERGLORIFIED FIREMONKEYS

THOU SHALT NOT GLORIFY FIREMONKEYS ON THINE EMS WEBSITE.

Dude, you seriously needed to be taken down a peg. How would you feel if you came onto scene and asked if I needed assistance, and I said, "no thanks, I can hold my own oxygen bag?" Yeah, bystanders can be annoying, yeah, they can get in the way, but geez, the girl was trying to help. And as for those amazing doctors you know, I'm sure I know a few doctors who are both better clinicians than them and not super deluxe dicks. So, what does that say about those doctors you know?

As said before, it all depends really, but me being me you have to have some really extenuating circumstances for me to play the good samaritan, given the risks. I really can think of only one time when I have actually stopped off duty and rendered aid, and in retrospect, you could play "spot 1,000 things wrong with this picture" of the scene. I'm on may to work, in uniform, on the Garden State Parkway years ago, and oh no, there are people slowing down ominously in front of me, which usually only means one thing on the GSP. A few more feet up the road, and yep, there down in the embankment, passed the twisted guard rail, facing the wrong direction and missing its front axle is a mangled pick up truck. This accident had just happened. No cops, no ambulance, nothing. I am in uniform and I actually have my med bag on me because I am on my way to work. So I do the christian thing and get out, and luckily the driver was uninjured and walking around, but his elderly female passenger is still buckled into her seat. I open the door to see if she is okay just as a very loud State Trooper shows up and starts throwing people off of the scene. He was very effective. The old lady tells me she is having some trouble breathing, and I notice some paradoxical movment in her chest. I also got a nice whiff of airbag chemical that was all over the front, which also wasn't very smart. So I tell her not to move and prepare to take c-spine immobilization when your friendly neighborhood redneck who isn't listening to the loud State Trooper comes up to me and says "Hey dude, this thing's leaking gas!", just as I get a very strong smell of gasoline, and look to my right to indeed see gasoline pouring out of a ruptured gas tank onto a hot exhaust pipe, causing hot gasoline fumes to rise up off of it. At this moment I made a split second decision. I didn't calculate the flashpoint of gasoline, I didn't take into account the legal ramifications of moving an injured person, heck, I hadn't even done a neuro evaluation yet, but just as well, I picked up the old lady out of her seat and carried her up the embankment to a safe distance away from the truck. No, it did not burst into flames, and no I wasn't a hero, and it may not have been strictly the right thing to do but its what I did. The 'squad' showed up a short time later, and after a bit of cajoling, got her on some oxygen, it looked like she had a few cracked ribs, and she was boarded and collared and on her way to the trauma center. That's really the only time I've done anything off duty at an accident scene that really was worth mentioning, and as you can see, it was really dangerous and could have gotten me in a lot of trouble.