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Good one ! in the seventh Bwhaa haa ha ...

Bless you zilla Exzactly .. have you got links to studies ?

OK, tell me in your town/county, what was the last law passed by your white politician that helped all the people.

I'm with you Herbie ... lets don those pampers, hoist the geritol .... THEM IS FIGHTING WORDS ! 35 old bhaaa haaa ha !

1- Rhetorical question, at least lay off are done fairly in regards to seniority and not who is the highest paid or blows the boss the best. 2- I have no idea why you insist on comparing Paramedics to MD's. I personally would rather look at the RN level in organisation / structure as a model it is much closer to what the future could look like for First Responders. There is not one MD I know that is not involved in multiple "associations" with political and economic influence, on a far different level and who is this Obama guy .. I think I heard he was the no fly list in Kanukistan. cheers

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Just curious .. on a 911 call what and how does a Fire Department charge for Crash Rescue or a Pumper with Medic ?

Maybe Jeff is just being politically correct, not to leave we Tim's addicts "out in the cold' ?

Quite obvious that I did

Forget Rednecks... Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Canadians: If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, You may live in Canada . If someone in a Home Depot store Offers you assistance and they don't work there, You may live in Canada . If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, Edit Squint IN THE BAR You may live in Canada . If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation, With someone who dialed a wrong number, You may live in Canada . If 'Vacation' means going anywhere South of Detroit for the weekend, You may live in Canada . If you measure distance in hours, You may live in Canada . If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, You may live in Canada . If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' In the same day and back again, You may live in Canada . If you can drive 90 km/hr through 2 feet of snow During a raging blizzard without flinching, You may live in Canada . If you install security lights on your house and garage, But leave both unlocked, You may live in Canada . If you carry jumper cables in your car And your wife knows how to use them, You may live in Canada . If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, You may live in Canada . If the speed limit on the highway is 80 km -- You're going 95 and everybody is passing you, You may live in Canada . If driving is better in the winter, Because the potholes are filled with snow, You may live in Canada . If you know all 4 seasons: Almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, You may live in Canada . (this is my favourite, because how true) If you have more miles (ahem Jeff that's clicks) on your snow blower than your car, You may live in Canada . If you find -2 degrees 'a little chilly', You may live in Canada . If you actually understand these jokes, you definitely are Canadian EH.

The train was quite crowded and a U.S. Marine walked the entire length looking for a seat. There seemed to be one next to a well-dressed French woman, but when he got there, he saw it was taken by the woman's poodle. The war-weary Marine asked, "Ma'am, may I have that seat?" The French woman sniffed and said to no one in particular, "Americans are so rude. My little Fifi is using that seat." The Marine walked the entire train again, but the only seat available was under that dog. "Please, ma'am. May I sit down? I'm very tired." She snorted, "Not only are you Americans rude, you are also arrogant!" This time the Marine didn't say a word; he just picked up the little dog, tossed it out the train window and sat down. The woman shrieked, "Someone defend me! Put this American in his place!" An English gentleman sitting nearby spoke up. "Sir, you Americans seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing. You hold the fork in the wrong hand. You drive your autos on the wrong side of the road. And now, sir, you seem to have thrown the wrong bitch out the window. Cheers

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110126/saefty-standards-110126/ I must wonder if body armour will be issued to EMS ? paid for by the feds ?

Have you tried transdermal difenclonac ?

I have those in my library and not going to part with them because they are now history in EMS. I have Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets somewhere ... ah the memories .

Fortunately in the great white north it is a constitutional right to organise labour or associate with who one would care too. One is only FORCED to join a union when the employer is the government. Point is in today's day and age if your not not represented in some way you are the least likely to have any job security. cheers

When I goggled marine corp I got this ... wtf ?

Well dust did spread his seed to the 4 winds ...

How do you have the immigration process down pat, is it that easy ? Where are you from in Caribbean your call sign indicates Bahamas ? You may be quite surprised that ONT may not accept your US training.

AGREED ... is going on lately ? You missed "contract" paramedicmike I have heard terms like "hitch" / "tour" / "!@#^%$#@V" but never heard contract from anyone other than blackwatch or the CPS teams or private EOD. cheers good thread ...

No mobster .. the 12 lead would have saved this patients life .. you killed him ! and cost taxpayer lots of money ! Ok before I get the wrath of the khan(s) ... we did just chat on the phone ... its just a joke guys and girls. A couple of queries ; What was pt.s Hemoglobin ... in regard to oxygenation content and capacity idea. Was his "oral" temp 35.8 ? Why was he on MS po prn ? LD svp. Was this calcification on mitral or vegetative and was it verbal report or documented ? Was the patients anxiety level high when you admitted ? Was this patient supposed to be a wait and return or direct admit ? Last but not least his respiratory fungal infection most curious as this can be a very strong indication of a lack of an immune response. OR an knowing this receiving facility VERY well, Did the receiving hospital do or gave something to this patient to precipitate an event ? That's where I would put my money .. the treatment in ER is very questionable. RUFF: Well you would love to practice where we do ... there would NEVER be a charge for a 12 lead, no justification required to do anything diagnostic ... ever. cheers

I would help pay for your bus fare, will you take charity from a cracker ? cheers.

Malice is a legal term, did someone cause you damages, hurt your feelings maybe. I feel malice when some one wakes me up from a dead sleep too. Asking for something that is normally earned in EMS just because we are nice guys and girls and You respect us (I hope you stick with that when you write) you wish to help you showing up out of the wild blue freaking yonder handing life experience to you on a plate so that you: 1- Could possibly misrepresent. 2- Continue to propagate myths. 3- Spend a short time rubbing shoulders and making a nice tidy profit on your book. <Gasp>... so my kind of behaviour diminishes us all ? Really now, a literary licence, tenor in fiction writing is limited to a book or a magazine only ? A most interesting theory coming from a fiction writer himself, but Welcome Back, here is hoping you learned about an interview technique called Good Cop, Bad Cop it is not limited to Law enforcement. Paramedicmike pretty much covered the basis (more politically correct than I) on why your introduction post was received rather "tentatively". I agree with mikes comment's wholeheartedly. Just to add some serious perspective here, one individual introduced himself on a website similar, was a "poser" and fortunately for a thing called a Moderator one that can see IP addresses. One lurks here on occasion and is privy to more info than the average member. (just saying) Well long story short the individual was suspected to be a serial violent rapist and had set up meetings with a couple of women using a forum's (oddly exactly like this) ... rumour has it he was not very successful. I digress. So a recap of the proposed book, just so I get the picture. A Paramedic (now) a Father with an offspring with a fictitious disease, the Paramedic character that its just incidental, yet needs to authenticated. You are going to use a call with respiratory burns to upper and lower airways of a child to justify this. This does not sound like a book I would pick up to read, why, because I suspect I know 3 medics that this is not fiction, sadly. You may want to goggle the term idiopathic, it sounds a bit more medical than fictitious. cheers

Nice ... what are your consulting fees like ? And is the novel scary ... I like scary .

Can I borrow your "Bring out the Dead" or "Trauma" series, I will trade for "Mother Jugs and Speed" ? JK ... HERBIE ... Your possibly right, but an EMT with "problems" and a Child with respiratory burns, well not looking very positive to me from the get go. Do you think the facts may scare this entity? You know the reality we live with every day, fiction is not fact its fabrication. Come on we are the kings and queens in discerning BS at calls, I think some days I have a built in BS detector maybe this is WHY I squint ? Those ain't laugh lines ! I think your giving a lot of credit to an absolutely unknown, we will see if MR. Fiction will come back. I am of the belief that sometimes people need a kick in the ass (well it works on me) to get the true picture. I will tell you I took a rather famous actor on a ride along one day, in a place called Jasper next thing you know the "part of calls" taken out of context and used in a TV series and was taken beyond the brink of absolute absurdity. The old saying give an inch .. take a mile is very very true. IMHO there is way too many capitalizing on "sensationalism" and "bring disrespect" to EMS already. I for one will call them to the mat before I support a damn thing, I learned my lesson the hard way. cheers