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...it is Caterday after all...

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You need DL-51, Medical Examination Report, from the DMV. here's a copy of it online, however you also need the green "DOT" card that comes with the one from the DMV. You can go to any physician in California to get it filled out, so your primary physician works. Additionally, industrial med clinics will often offer to do the exam for you for a fee.

You don't need a special tablet to have electronic books. Heck, a number of my textbooks are available for "free" (tuition at work) through my school's library website. The problem is if I'm reading a book or reviewing notes, it's nice to have Powerpoint open if I want to make flash cards or the internet if I need to Google something. That doesn't work if I can only have one open application at a time. So, great... instead of carrying around 30 pounds of books (library reserve desk?), I have to worry about two different gizmos because someone doesn't want to load a book program into their laptop? Besides, who needs an iPod... For half the price and a quarter the size, I can get plenty of mp3 players that have enough functions and memory to meet my needs.

Err... tablet and slate PCs have been around for a while now. What I can't imagine having any uses is a computer that can't multitask.

I heard that, however protection from search and seizure in the US is pretty strong and I'm fairly ignorant about the protection in other countries. For example, anyone walking down the street in the UK can be subject to search from the news articles I've seen. Without reasonable articulable suspicion, there's no requirement to allow an officer in the US to search you. Additionally, anyone who's watch US Cops knows that the perps rarely exercise those rights. The only proper question that the kid should have been saying was "Am I under arrest? Am I free to go?" especially if he is guilty.

I know that this didn't happen in the US, and thus might not have the same rights, however this is why you never talk to the police... Part 1 Law school lecture on not talking to police http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865# Part 2 Second half of lecture with a detective confirming everything in part 1. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865#docid=6014022229458915912

I wonder if something like a microphone "shock mount" would help reduce the vibration enough to be viable.

Just curious, how good are the "dial a flo" variable resistance IV tubings?

Southern California (especially Orange County) is a great example of this. For example, I come from a "small" town of just 9 sq. miles. That's 9 sq. miles of 60k people in a county of 3 million, and that city is surrounded by several cities of 100k+ where the only way you know you left one city and entered another is a sign in the middle of the road, or in some cases, the road changes names (I know one road with 4 different names depending on what city you're in and you can drive on all 4 segments in less than 20 minutes. Technically 5 if you want to drive another 20 minutes, but the road layout get's a little funky in that area).

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion206.shtml Now as long as lethal injection is used, there will be a physician involved, even if it's just protocol oversight. Saying that, there are plenty of relatively painless and non-cruel methods to execute someone, such as the aforementioned firing squad. However, once you get away from lethal injection, the punishment becomes harder for the witnesses to watch. Of course since taking the life of a condemned convict should never be easy, this might not be too bad.

Lethal injection by self-trained sociopaths would likely fall under that heading when compared to lethal injection provided by people who are trained and experienced in the medical procedures necessary to carry out the execution.

8th amendment much?

Err... are you seriously suggesting that vigilantism and punishments decided through due process with penalties approved by the legislature is the same thing? If yes, than following that logic a gang is no different than the military in the sense that a lot of gangs started out by just a wanting to protect their family and their neighborhood from other gangs. Of course the difference between vigilantism and due process through the court system and the difference between street gangs and the military is legitimacy.

Execution is also a deterrent. Therefore if even one criminal decides against a specific criminal act because they become eligible for the death penalty, then the execution team has saved a life. ...and oh, just because someone is in prison means that they are not currently a threat to society? I'd suggest that you watch a few episodes of Gangland on The History Channel.

Then the military shouldn't have medics either then. The entire point of having a standing army is to be able to project force (or, at a minimum having the ability to project force) to defend the country, both at home and abroad, as well as to provide a stick for the foreign service to threaten with. This necessitates that they are ready, able, and willing to take the lives of our enemies. After all, wars aren't settled over a pillow fight or a game of paint ball. Hence, the purpose of the military is to kill. A medic serving in the military supports that concept of taking lives to protect and further the goals of the nation, and therefore is just as morally at fault for homicide as an execution team is in executing a condemned felon. Then again, I'm prodeath penalty.

Hitler parody videos > xtranormal videos. At least the Hitler parodies don't have the stupid voice synthesizers.

IAFF represents MAST and Kansas City Fire. KCFD got the bright idea to take over MAST. Of course the IAFF approved the decision for one union branch to take over another union branch in a second. Hence fox and the hen house. It's like a pimp union also representing a bunch of whores.

Any EMS agency that chooses IAFF to represent the employees after the Kansas City MAST betrayal deserves to lose their jobs to the fire department. It's completely stupid to rely on a fire fighter union to look after your needs when the same union is gunning to move as much EMS as possible into the fire departments to save fire fighter jobs. This is the proverbial fox looking after the hen house.

Valid reason. Sometimes spidey sense goes off and you just can't place why. I don't know if I'd have worded it that way though...

See... that's the problem. There are way too many providers who take it as a literally, "If the patient doesn't reach the OR in an hour following any traumatic event, they will drop dead." Heck, it even got air time on the pilot for Chronicles of EMS with the San Francisco fire medic talking about how the golden hour is ingrained at all levels of training. I wanted to leave a message on the JEMS Connect thread asking if he had any evidence that the golden hour exists.

RSI protocol = addition paramedic. Medical director writes medical protocol. Dispatch failing to dispatch additional paramedics without reason (was there any paramedics within a reasonable distance available to be dispatched?) means that medical care was compromised. Go up chain of command, terminating at medical director if need be.

Yep... because emergency medical care isn't about quality, it's about jobfare for fire fighters. Oh, and the fire department is not the "local government" in charge of deciding who gets to play. That's the city council so stop trying to portray it as the fire department's choice. Additionally, if the fire department wants to play in EMS, then play the entire game. At least attempt to show that you care about the population that your "sworn" to protect past screwing them over for a pay check.

Exciting is relative and really based on experience. Where you excited when you started high school? How excited are you about high school now that you're a junior? Similarly, yea, the ER isn't cutting people out of cars, but who do you think fixes the patient once they get to the ER? (I swear, if someone says "the surgeon" I'm going to smack you, you know what I mean... )