Richard B the EMT

AND... Paul Rubens (spelling?) as Pee Wee Herman, in "Back To The Beach", starring the most favorite 1950s "mousekateer," Annette Funichello (spelling, again). Anybody pack some Skippy Peanut Butter?

I have never seen roll-up/roll-down type fire doors as in the picture shown. What I am used to seeing are either heavy doors in a track device, that normally are closed with a counterweight to shut them after someone slides them open to pass through, or heavy steel doors rigged to close when an electric magnet turns off on the alarm sounding, but don't lock closed. The magnets are reactivated after the alarm is canceled, and the doors are manually reopened

It won't work. I just heard on the news tonight, someone got sick from some accidently ingested creepy crawly bug, on their organically grown food that was not "properly cleaned, leaf by leaf". The report originated in Canada, but probably could be anywhere.

I'm going to touch on "Patient Advocates" for a short. When a patient, or their friends and/or family, feel that whatever care their friend/family member is getting is inadequate, or delayed, it at least gives them someone to talk to, without delaying care to the patient, or others in the ER, to express their complaints.

Are there not more tubs and pools than either Monster Truck Rallies and the trucks themselves?

Watching the sales video, I just realized that when I gave one, each, to Lady J and Momma B, I helped them put it on backwards! The opening goes to the rear, like one of those "One Size Fits None" hospital gowns. Actually, it looks more like the monsignors' cassock at the church than the classical KKK Hoodie.

A mention: Hatzoloh has it's INTERNATIONAL headquarters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Re the ticketing of an illegally parked vehicle: While it is from over 30 years ago, a community based Volunteer Ambulance Service, while on a CPR call, was ticketed for being parked in a bus stop, even though the emergency lights were running. Different location and VAS, my own service got ticketed, on complaint of the merchant in front of whose business the VAS had an "Ambulance Only" parking zone. The ticket placed on the AMBULANCE was for the AMBULANCE being parked in an "AMBULANCE Only" zone! Uh, officer, it seems to look, walk, smell, and quack like a duck, so it must be...an orangutan? Being silly, obviously. Both tickets, incidentally, got quashed.

Wasn't this covered a long time ago, in the musical, "Gigi"?

Don't worry about the name for the cargo netting that I used. I had to ask what a nurse catcher was a while back, on this very forum! I wasn't ridiculed (too much!).

Thank you for the posting of the pictures. I have never seen any ambulance in the US, as of my current experiences, with the "Nurse-catcher" netting, except through pictures.

The other forum didn't recognize me, and would not let me see whatever you tried to show.

Princess Leah, Luke Skywalker, and Han Solo, at various times in "Star Wars-A New Beginning", "S W-The Empire Strikes Back", and "S W-Return of the Jedi".

Wow. I had forgotten "Hanging Hardware", which enabled so equipped Caddylances to transport 4 stretcher patients while not doing any active patient care than O2 therapy. Due to the way the laws, rules, and protocols are written nowadays, I don't think, even if we were to put the hardware into our type 1s, 2s and 3s, we'd be allowed to do such. I think the way I do it nowadays, one has to be able to take "active" care of at least one patient while enroute, which for crews like I work, means one tech or Paramedic in the back under normal circumstances.

Starkle, Starkle, little twink, What the heck you are I think! I'm not under the affluence of inkahol, as some pinkle tink. I had tee many martoonies, and a scottle of botch, And the drunker I sit here, the looooonger I get! (Anonymous, but taught to me when I was a 5 year old by my then 10 year old sister)

Kirk, "Star Trek: The Voyage Home"

Perhaps it is just me, or it could be a bunch of us, but I'd not limit it to peds, but keep it widely across the boards. That would include those where death is an obvious release from the patient's pain due to an extended illness. Death may be inevitable, but some of us still view it as "The Enemy", and even when expected, makes us uncomfortable. It is that lack of comfort with it around that makes some of us good EMTs and Paramedics.

I have noted on several of the procedural shows, and I will specify "Law and Order:Special Victims Unit", where the show regulars, "Detectives", draw blood for DNA, and other testing to either eliminate the person as a suspect, or use as evidence against that person, during the course of the investigation. This, seeing the above statement quoted, brings the question, do any LEO agencies train their Detectives, or even uniformed personnel, to the level of phlebotomy technician for purposes of evidence gathering, to the best of the collective knowledge of the rest of us here in EMT City?

I have seen one thing on a duo of local ambulances that I ask commentary on: Door glass that goes opaque when the doors close, presumably for patient privacy. Anyone have them? If the ambulance loses power, do the windows go clear, or go opaque? Can you see out of them from the inside? Can they be switched to clear when there is no patient on board? How much additional do they cost? Anyone have answers, or even other questions?

What in the hell was that video??? At first, I'm thinking that it is an ambulance exploding, then, it takes off like a bat out of hell, then, the caption shows that I'm looking at a trick vehicle, jet propulsion. Where was this?

President Lyndon Baines Johnson got a trainload of grief, when he was photographed lifting a Bassett Hound by it's ears, back in, i think, 1964 or 5.

Below, is a link to a company called Lighthouse Uniform, that I got from the e-Newsletter from the NAEMT (National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians), of which I am also a member. What they show is a "Class 'A'" type uniform, what I would call a "Parade Detail" type uniform, not for the daily work we do. I ask opinions on this dressy uniform, for those times when numerous members gather, as in funerals and the like. http://naemt.lighthouseuniform.com/

I wonder if this is a similar system to what the FDNY EMS Command used, and is using, to determine our "Cross Street Locations", where we sit between calls, in some instances facing a particular direction depending on the time of the day/evening/night.?

The first one should be in the string on things heard on the radio or scanner, in addition to here. The second one, without knowing it's attribution to the USS Lincoln, I mentioned to a co-worker just yesterday. Still funny.

File this under "You cannot make this stuff up!" Most know, in these remaining days before Barack Obama is sworn in, that he promised his girls a dog, referred by the Press corps, as the "First Dog." Now, I have heard everything: As reported on the national news broadcast of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Senator Ted Kennedy has gone public in support of the Portuguese Water Dog, but is in public argument with the actor/director Henry Winkler, who supports the "Labradoodle". From the ABC News "World News Tonight" site http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/20...kennedy-vs.html Ted Kennedy vs. Henry Winkler: Dog Lovers Face Off on Best Breed for Obamas January 12, 2009 5:33 PM ABC News' John Berman reports: What better way to spend a Monday than in the middle of a fight between Ted Kennedy and Henry Winkler. Kennedy, of course, is the senior Senator from Massachusetts. And Winkler is the Fonz, or at least was on Happy Days when it was on TV. What were they fighting about and why was I in the middle? Well the answer to the first question is "dogs," and the second, "because it's Monday I guess." Really, the story is all about the hunt for the "First Dog." What dog will the Obama family choose to join them in the White House? It all heated up after this exchange in the new interview between Obama and ABC's George Stephanopoulos: STEPHANOPOULOS: What kind of a dog are we getting and when are we getting it? OBAMA: The -- they seem to have narrowed it down to a labradoodle or a Portuguese water hound. STEPHANOPOULOS: A medium sized. OBAMA: Medium sized dog, and so, we're now going to start looking at shelters to see when one of those dogs might come up. STEPHANOPOULOS: So, you're closing in on it? OBAMA: We're closing in on it. This has been tougher than finding a commerce secretary. So we wanted to talk to owners of both candidates, the Labradoodle and Portugese Water Dog to find out which dog might be better suited for the task. After deploying the vast resources of ABC News, we learned that Henry Winkler, AKA "The Fonz" was the proud owner of a Labradoodle. I caught up with him by phone minutes before he was set to go on stage in London as Captain Hook in Peter Pan. Tell us whether you think the labradoodle or the portuguese water hound should go to the White House? VOTE NOW He told me: "The labaradoodle is smart, the labradoodle is sweet, the labradoodle if filled with the spirit of life. The labradoodle hops everywhere, he doesn't just walk, our labradoodle is a girl, her name is, Charlette. And I promise you if the president has a labradoodle in the white house, he can have that dog on the economic team." He also issued a broadside at the owners of Portugese Water Dogs, "porties" as they are called. "I understand that it must be terrible to feel so wrong, but the thing is that you are lovely people, enjoy your pets, the labradoodle rules!" Enter Ted Kennedy. He loves his 3 Porties (more on that number in a bit.) And he gave us this amazing, fulsome statement by e-mail: From Senator Edward M. Kennedy: "A portuguese water dog is the perfect choice for first dog. The Obama girls -- and their parents -- will love a portuguese water dog. They're loyal, smart, loving and they became a real part of the family. And they definitely do not shed. And if they're lucky, they'll find a really smart dog like mine who can even write a book. My dog Splash wrote 'My Senator and Me: A Dog's Eye View of Washington, DC.' "I take Sunny and Splash to the Senate with me, and they love being around people and being part of the action. In fact, they're so much fun that we've just added a new portuguese water dog puppy to our family -- Captains Courageous is his name. We call him Cappy for short. And he's another winner. "I think the Obama's should double their fun and get two portuguese water dogs. They love to be active, and they can help entertain each other. "I understand that a labradoodle -- also known as a portuguese water dog wannabe -- is also being considered. Hmmmm. I hope someone checks into the shedding situation. I know lots of people who have labradoodles that are more lab than poodle -- and they definitely shed. Sorry, Mr. Winkler, but that's a fact. "I am proud to endorse the Portuguese Water dog as the next First Dog (or Dogs) of the United States. They have a can do and hopeful spirit, they are smart, they are resilient, they are determined, they are optimistic, and they are tireless. Sounds like a perfect fit for the Obama Family and the Obama Administration." Please notice the outstanding attack on Henry Winkler. It is a real political brawl. One that will only be solved by some biscuits or petting. And in the process, ABC News is able to break some news. Until this moment, we knew Ted Kennedy has 2 porties. But now, sources familiar with Kennedy's pets say he now has a third. "Captains Courageous," they call him "Cappy" for short.

I heard it set off the smoke and heat detectors? Guys, be nice. From what I have been told, Ter has the heart of a 5 year old. In a jar of formaldehyde on the shelf! LOL. JOKING!! (Or is that removed from Spen?)