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Doesn't look locked to me...

To clarify, I was calling a generalized pharmacology a specialty course, not "XXX for health sciences" courses. I'm not even sure my undergrad offered pharm as an undergrad course. On the other hand, from what I've gathered reading this forum for a long time, a lot of the principles in general chemistry and neurobiology are directly related to pharmacology even if not presented as such (e.g. enzymes is fairly analogous to neuroreceptors).

Yes. In addition to ions, moles, and everything else mentioned, a general chemistry series should also cover solutions, reaction thermodynamics, and enzymes. There's a reason I've been able to engage in some of the conversations on here that I have despite never taking a pharmacology course. The basic science of a lot of medicine is the same whether it's taught in a specialty course or in a general science course.

At my first company we patched patient information to dispatch and the dispatcher called the hospital. Since we didn't have a radio in the back, the driver was the one to give the patch (which was short anyways). If it was anything sensitive (e.g. urogenital complaints), I'd call it in via my cell instead of using the radio.

I don't use my phone enough to warrant a hands free device, but I will say that I feel that it's more dangerous to use the speaker phone function (which is, technically, hands free) than holding it to my head. Regardless, the problem with cell phones isn't holding it to your head, it's the conversation. If hands on vs hands free was an issue, than people would crash every time they changed their radio station or adjusted a mirror.

Of course the assumption being made is that the cell phone is not being used for work purposes. There are some situations where I'd rather communicate via a private channel than broadcast over a public channel.

The reason I asked was because every thing I've seen has shown that conversation is the problem, not holding the phone in one hand. So if no phone, then it would go to reason no radio as well.

Would you say that the driver should not operate any 2 way radio while driving then as well?

If you end up getting a Hep B vaccine, ask about the Twinrix vaccine. It's a little more expensive per shot, but it's a combined Hep A/Hep B vaccine that requires the same number of shots (3) as the individual vaccines.

If you're using EMS to justify maintaining the current fire staffing, then you won't be able to justify providing enough staff to keep proper staffing for both the EMS and fire calls. So if you have all these fire medics responding to the structure fire, who's going to respond to EMS calls?

...but there's a difference in terms of scale between what you'll see on an EEG (where a display may be 600 milliseconds) vs an ECG (which would display it over several seconds). I'm not saying that paramedics aren't taught about it, but it's the difference between seeing a spleen in an anatomy course and seeing a spleen in a histology course.

If I was still doing undergrad research, I'd try to find a picture of an EEG that has a 60 cycling artifact. Depending on how sensitive the equipment is, eliminating 60 cycling could be near impossible. There were days where we had to reschedule because there was nothing we could do to eliminate it.

"Shouldn't" and "isn't" are two different questions.

Which is crazy since most religions basically have an 'out' for medical/emergency reasons. I'd say that fixing broken down emergency vehicles would qualify unless there's a backup vehicle. Of course religion shouldn't be the basis of government at any level.

I also just recently started school for a new profession (finally, thank god) at Western University in So. Cal. One of the things that the school is starting this year is an Interprofessional Education program bringing together students from the university's osteopathic medical, physician assistant, physical therapy, pharmacy, graduate nursing, veterinary (don't ask, I don't understand this one either), optometry, podiatry, and dental programs to work through problem based learning scenarios. More information: http://www.westernu.edu/xp/edu/interprofes...ional-about.xml http://prospective.westernu.edu/interprofessional Additionally, the three new programs (dental, podiatry, and optometry) are sharing courses with the osteopathic medical students.

...or a medical examiner.

It's a joke about orthopedic surgeons...

The funny thing is that I saw BILLY MAYS on TV just the other day and he looked great.

Bowel and lung sounds at the same time? Damn, I bought the wrong scope since apparently the electronic ones can pick up the 'surgeons point.'

To use quotes, make sure that [quote] is in front of the quoted section and [/quote] is at the end of the quoted section.

I award you no points, and my god have mercy on your soul.

Alternatively do you know the real world? Yes, these rules are made for those that you can not allow to think on their own. Unfortunately, it's much easier to make rules to cover the lowest common denominator and make everyone conform than to have one set of rules covering those that cannot make good decisions and a separate set of rules for those that can make good decisions.

You know. I will agree with him on that. The speed that the ambulance should be traveling at is the speed that is safe for conditions considering traffic volume, road and route design, ambulance design (being able to provide a stable ride), weather conditions, etc. Saying X speed, or speed limit plus X encourages people to hit that speed because, hey, they're going an acceptable speed, regardless of the conditions.

Probably this or something unsecured in the back.

Congrats!