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  1. JPINFV
    Actually, no. There's a point where you reach diminishing returns. What's one more person telling a patient that they should get something checked out? I'll ask this question again, as well, since you didn't respond to it. A DNR is extremely similar to an AMA since it is the patient refusing aspects of medical care. Should an ambulance crew have to call a supervisor in order to honor a DNR since a few bad apples might treat a DNR as a "Do Not Treat?"
  2. JPINFV
    I guess if we made everyone a supervisor... Alternatively, if a supervisor comes on scene to "convince" a patient to go to the hospital or overrule a patient's desire to refuse medical care, then that supervisor will be the one teching that call.
  3. JPINFV
    These errors? Isn't it a little presumptuous to think that all AMAs that worsen or die is an error? Isn't that like saying a patient who dies under a DNR order is failed by the medical community? After all, both represents a refusal to accept medical care. Alternatively, are you suggesting that we start to kidnap patients who refuse medical attention?
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    For more information (and more sanitized images), Snopes has an article on the incident. http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/alton.asp As a side note, even at 100 MPH, a concrete building will win in a match over a car.
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    Aren't you guys still trying to work out a screen door for those things?
  6. JPINFV
    That's the one I'm thinking of. Of course emergency videos do have a tendency to get out. There was also the case about a year ago in a different part of the country where an off duty fire fighter was taking pictures of an accident for "training purposes" and the pictures eventually started to get around. Of course none of these incidents involved pictures from the back of an ambulance.
  7. JPINFV
    Are you referring to the incident in Southern California?
  8. JPINFV
    Well, couldn't that be considered a bit of a philosophical question? After all, how many of us are going to be virtually unknown or a random branch in some distant relative's 3rd grade family tree?
  9. JPINFV
    I see cameras in the back of an ambulance as no big deal provided proper security controls are kept. Hospitals, after all, manage to have security cameras.
  10. JPINFV
    Trick question. You can't really draw the cytoplasm.
  11. JPINFV
    Do you know how many people get mad when I tell them that I paid only $120 for my EMT course including books?
  12. JPINFV
    ROP stands for Regional Occupational Program. Essentially it's the high school trade classes in California (it includes intro to fire fighting, hotel courses, culinary courses, and a lot of other trade programs), but it's open to adults as well.
  13. JPINFV
    See, I have questions about the 'bear question.' Was it a question regarding bears or a scenario that used a bear as a plot device? One is acceptable, the other isn't. Either way, I bet it was a bear of a question.
  14. JPINFV
    I'm not quite following you there since the kidneys would filter the glow stick components out of the blood and into the urine.
  15. JPINFV
    http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/colu...ms_studies.html Study number 1 comes as an example. As far as the second part, you don't splint an extremity just because the person had a traumatic event like you do the spine. We splint limbs when we have reasons to believe it's fractured. We splint spines unless we are certain it's not fractured (e.g. the absence of a traumatic event).
  16. JPINFV
    Umm, wouldn't the point be to filter it out into the urine?
  17. JPINFV
    People should be judgmental over the people who make up their organization's leadership. The leadership is the official public face of the organization. What's going to happen if he needs to go to a public meeting or event to represent GVAC? What if someone influential starts poking around and comes across his Myspace page? What conclusions are they going to make by tying his current Myspace page (regardless of the age of the pictures) to his current agency?
  18. JPINFV
    I would argue that an Eagle Scout has more leadership experience at his age than most of his peers. It definitely shouldn't be used as the only proof of leadership experience, but it should point towards leadership potential.
  19. JPINFV
    Why don't they just send the ambulance to begin with? It's much cheaper to operate than a fire engine and the vast majority of calls will require an ambulance anyways. For the record, I'm not going to hold my breath for someone to provide a good answer on this one.
  20. JPINFV
    Well, to be fair, pee is sterile and, assuming that the water is running, there should be plenty of dilution.
  21. JPINFV
    Shower slippers!
  22. JPINFV
    VS-Eh?
  23. JPINFV
    Ok, color me naive since the county I worked in required all ERs to be able to handle peds and OB (at least stabilize before transfer to a hospital with a specialty service), but shouldn't all ERs be able to stabilize and treat peds and OB, at least till a transfer is arraigned?
  24. JPINFV
    Hehe... where's that thread about medics fining patients for 911 abuse? I think this thread is calling it for a beat down.
  25. JPINFV
    Massachusetts state law does not govern the District of Colombia. It does, however, govern the City of Boston.
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