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8 hours of writing out "Thou shalt not abandon the paramedics on scene" on a chalk board should do the trick.

Wow. So you're complaining about having to complete paper work (I have had a problem exactly once with getting a signature, so I had the doctor sign instead of the nurse. Patients that are unable to sign don't count. There is a procedure to handle those signatures) properly and you can't sit out in front of an ER after you get done? To be honest, it sounds like a pretty easy way to make a few extra bucks an hour. Considering that I've seen people have zero problem sitting around for "their 20 minutes" (the company I worked for official limit for time between arrival at the destination and going back in service was 20 minutes. So if they got done in 5 minutes, they'd just sit in the unit for 15 before calling back into service. I've never been complained to about it regardless of if I took 4 minutes or 3 hours) after a call while the rest of the units run calls, this really seems like a non-issue. To be honest, I'd be willing to bet that any delays that were properly documented and informed to management would be overlooked if brought up tactfully. As a pure aside, for the love of all that is good, holy, and smells of roses, please use your enter key. Paragraphs are not the enemy, but a wall of text is.

But on Third Watch banging on the back window is a signal that it's time to start transport. :roll:

And to think, I didn't even know that these were able to call 911.

but but but MY basic school took 4 months! :roll: (it was still only 120 hours) /lowest form of wit.

To be honest, with the number of ambulance companies in the area as well as "emergent" (taxi driver for fire medics/general public) and "non-emergent" (taxi driver for health care facilities), I'm willing to bet that OC and LA are one of the few areas where EMTs are actually in serious demand.

A man walks into a bar. Ouch.

Are you suggesting that DNR patients do not deserve treatment and transportation as long as they are still breathing?

$5 says that the the strike will hurt the employees more than any sort of benefits that they win from the strike.

If you drastically feel the need to spend money and time, just take the refresher. Just about the entire EMT-B class in 24 hours of time. On the other hand, just picking up a text book and self studying is probably cheaper and faster.

EDIT: Title is supposed to be "AMR crew plays "Return to Sender," fails at customer Service," but got cut off for some reason. Note about title: Customer service is important for anyone who deals with customers, be those customers patients, tax payers, or the general public at all. While, yes, doing things like changing flats (per previous thread) are rather silly, being able to tactfully deal with situations is still important. A little customer service in a case like this might have saved AMR a lawsuit. http://www.cbs3springfield.com/news/local/17986579.html

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. -Monty Python and the Holy Grail I see your schwartz is as big as mine. Just what we need, a Druish princess. Strange, she doesn't look Druish. Spaceballs It's good to be the king. Multiple Mel Brooks movies.

Pfft, amatures. Call me when they move up to the real test.

On-scene+transport normally is much longer than 15 minutes. Unless you load and go every patient in the extreme sense of not even saying "Hi" before putting the pedal to the metal.

You shouldn't be sorry for stating your opinion, just support it. This goes back to the almost cliche saying of "if this is so good, why don't [insert health care professional] do it also?" Nurses and physicians jump into school with little to no experience every year, and their education is significantly longer than the 9 months that most paramedic programs are.

Why? I mean, sure, I could sit here and say anything. It's the reasoning behind the thought that counts.

Well, assuming that it's either finish the amputation or watch the patient die, I don't honestly see what the options are. Pre-medicate the patient and apply a tourniquet to the limb and clamp off any arteries that you can see (hemostats or the clamps from the OB kit). Cut through anything besides the vessels first starting with the hardest tissue first. I'd rather stop after a few cuts than stop with only a few cuts left. Sever the vessels last. Remove patient, bandage stump, transport. You would document the best you can.

How about a histology course?

I submit that a good medic, if he was able to reach the kid, would have giving a morphine bolus. If you can't save the poor kid, you might as well knock him out for the grim reaper.

"I love it when a plan comes together." -John Hannibal Smith The entire first season is on NBCs website now. 8)

White on right, smoke over fire, clouds over grass, chocolate is close to the heart. On a serious note, my physiology course took 2-3 lectures just going over the basics of ECGs starting with dipoles and and correlating not only each wave to it's source, but also why the depolarization creates that wave.

In response to the democrat debate, Slate has published this gem of modern journalism. Two Degrees of Adolf Hitler Readers connect the Führer to the three major presidential candidates. By Timothy Noah http://www.slate.com/id/2189464/ Given the "OMGWTFBBQ" over who Barack HUSSIAN Obama knows/has met, apparently we're going to be run by the Nazis regardless of who we elect.

From the news reports it seems like the driver had minor injuries whereas his partner suffered major injuries that resulted in having an arm amputated.