BushyFromOz

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nice attempt at sniping there mate, but all the education in the world is irrelevent if it is not applicable to the environment in which it is being utilised, ergo your smart ass comment is null and void :? Further, back that up with paramedic education of 3 months is not education at all, and the vast majority of medics will agree with that.

Game set and match brentoli :wink:

- 10 for getting off topic

Before i get into it i would first point out that i am not a paramedic (though i am working on it i swear) and that i asked Dust via PM before posting in his thread. I have noticed a few references to new medic's causing conflict on dual medic units through ignorance, arrogance and not knowing their place once the magical "P" word hits their shirts. Its probably the same issue preceptors have when they have university students doing ride time during their bachelor degrees placed under them. As someone who will (hopefully) be a new medic in the early part of next year, and as a ride along at the end of november it also something i will have to deal with soon, that is walking the fine line between being a diligent enthusiastic student or just being an ass. There is a fault in the education system here. Everything is presented as "You". We are told what "You" are responsible for, when "You" are in charge and what skills "You" can do. The worst part is having sunshine blown towards you about how fantastic the world will be when tertiary education is a pre-requisite, how it will be the driving force for professional registration and how we will be the next breed of all singing all dancing paramedic. Some of us manage to filter the BS from reality and understand the limitation of classroom education and translating into the field, how it is a continuous process and, most importantly understand that our part in whatever service takes us is to contribute through learning as a student, learning as a team player and then learning as a teacher. Most people miss this and instead believe that once they are in a nice new uniform the learning stops because they have left the classroom and because they have left the classroom they now know everything they need to know - hence the conflict with new medics. What i am getting at is that the new medic/student issue is more of a result of a failure in a system, as opposed to the failure of a person to interact with their co-workers. I think a good service will be able to weed out the true tossers through selection and be able to initiate the misguided ones through proper induction into the system and appropriate mentoring throughout it. That all seems less relevent than i first thought, but i'm not going to waste it

Im not really sure what i meant by that, i was half asleep when i posted it, it made sense at the time i swear! :? What i think i was getting at is that people who support BLS emergency ambulances cite clinical conditions such as those listed in order to justify their existance, but the examples given are hardly emergent conditions that didn't warrant a 000 call to begin with. Kind of makes it a senseless argument from my twisted perspective -5 to me, i still make no sense :?

Funny........ Seriously folk, look at the answers that are for 911 BLS, talking of toothaches and vomiting etc etc...... would you classify those as "emergent" calls worthy of a 911 call to begin with?

Sorry timmy, but my answer is no. The reason being is that i dont believe that anyobody below legal age should be working in the fronltine of emergency services. Its got very little to do with age v competancy, its just i dont believe that i can be forcibly made to except the responsibility for the welfare of a minor

Probably better left that way mate :wink:

I find a rag hanging from the petrol tanks suffices for lighting a car

Sorted mate :wink:

Yeah, but by the time you get it shipped out here the difference in cost is bugger all :? We get ripped off in Oz

Good point..... i must be losing it, i dont remember the"other" issue :shock:

It's true! I am the lindberg baby.... WAH WAH!

Is the pulse rate given also from the B/P monitor?

You guys are getting screwed! There would be major industrial action if this was happening as a matter of routine operations, though im sure it does happen "unofficially"

Wendy, is this something that Calgary is actually doing, or something you made up for the sake of posting, or maybe even for attention??? Hey, its harsh, but its what we are all thinking!

LoLz! emthilllz Yuz RulZ!

LMAO!

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Ummmmmmm, interesting..... no forwarding link and for people who "suffer" anaphylaxis??

Yep, im not going to tangle with that statement. The ignorance in this post speaks for itself

:roll: Wrong Its a profession

I wish i had acces to dust's collection of pictures, thats a corker!! In all seriousness, i met an american chick here about 6 months ago (who was a stunner!) when i was doing the medical covergae for a dance party, she promptly asked me what was the name of my fire department. She could not fathom the idea that ambologists were there own profession, instead of an arm of the fir service :?

:shock: Way to blast the guys face off