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...because it's unreasonable to expect someone to be at work for 24 hours straight without sleep time.

So is maggots, but neither are being used for general care, but for special situations.

Well, to be compeletly fair, Fountain Valley is only 50k people. Huntington Beach is 100k+, Costa Mesa is 100k+, and so on till you reach 3 mil people in the county. :twisted:

Yeaaaa. My home county made the news... oh, wait, what?

To be fair, the town of I grew up in had fire based EMS (it sucked, but that's a county wide problem) and it's own SWAT team and only had a population of 50,000. Of course they contracted with the next town over for police helicopter service.

Wow, someone actually think that So Cal style EMS is a good system? :shock: To think, I've always viewed LA and OC EMS setup to be a good example on how not to design an EMS system.

Looks to be San Antonio. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/City_to_b...ambulances.html

...because when the patient isn't injured enough to send an ambulance a fire engine is clearly indicated. Fracking idiots.

...eventually.

The point that I'm trying to get at here is that a complete cell phone ban is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Personal business can always wait till after the call, on the other hand there are legitimate business uses for cell phones, and as such, I don't see the purpose of a complete driver cell phone ban as long as the driver is expected to operate the radio.

Hmm, I wonder who ran the red light (and before anyone takes any sides since the traffic opposite of the one coming towards us had a red light, traffic control devices like opticon will turn all lights red besides the one for the direction of the emergency vehicle).

Hmm, I wonder who ran the red light (and before anyone takes any sides since the traffic opposite of the one coming towards us had a red light, traffic control devices like opticon will turn all lights red besides the one for the direction of the emergency vehicle).

So here's a question, if there is no difference between hands free and hands on cellular phone use, then is there a difference between cellular phone use and 2-way radio use?

Some people can drive with a hand held cell phone, others can't. Your point? The issue with driving and cell phones has nothing to do with handheld v hands free, which is where this thread is currently headed. It's conversation vs no conversation. Driven to Distraction: Dual-Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal...=1&SRETRY=0 Cell Phones and Driving: Review of Research http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tand...000002/art00001 Too long/didn't read? Cell phone use is cell phone use, regardless of how many hands are on the wheel.

The problem with communicating while driving is not an issue of how many hands are on the wheel, but the distraction from the conversation. Unlike with a passengers in a vehicle who can see the situation and know when to give the driver a few minutes to get through a sticky situation (i.e. multiple lane changes to get an offramp, traffic slowing quickly, etc), a person on the other hand of a cell phone doesn't have that same luxury.

... but funny.

It doesn't really surprise me, though. Those things reach 12 MPH and are not limited to streets like fire engines. In addition, the Segway cops could have been in the area by chance anyways.

Hot or not? ... but Will it Blend?

^ Is that the same type of hot LZ that Hilary Clinton once visited?

Is it wrong that I laughed at this? Rule number 1: Don't be an arse, especially in off service rotations.

I used the term when I first started in lieu of "no real changes to V/S," but quickly left it behind for simply saying "no change" (common narrative entry: pt transported in position of comfort. v/s monitored c no (circle with line through it) change (triangle symbol, both on the list of acceptable symbols). By the time I left my old company I was barely using the term "stable" or "unstable"

I just wanted to say that I'm a college student AND an EMT. Oh, I get paid for the second as well. At least it's better than the "Roll with it" commercial.

Rats? No, but my lab does use mice. While not from Boston (My three baseball teams are the Angels and who ever is playing Boston and Oakland), I am currently studying in Boston and the one thing Boston residents can stand is New York residents.

To clarify since the post I was responding to was the last post of page one, I am talking about cell phone use while a patient is on board.