Richard B the EMT

Don't hold me to this, as I really don't recall, but I think the toll booth crash I referenced was somewhere in Pennsylvania.

I comment that I am unsure if this is New York City or New York State rules/regulations, but bodies cannot be transported in anything but an enclosed vehicle. To illustrate, when they were getting ready to transport body bags from the Flight 587 crash, it couldn't be done by pickup trucks, so after stripping the stretchers and equipment normally on the ambulance floors, they used the ambulances to transport 10 body bags each, stacked inside, to the temporary morgue set up across Jamaica Bay at the NYPD Police Aviation Hangar, at Floyd Bennett Field.

It doesn't matter if the crime is done by ALS or BLS personnel. Every one of us gets the "Black Eye," as the rest of the world looks at us, now with suspicion in their eyes, asking themselves if we do the same crime but have not yet been caught. Obviously, this is the larger majority of us in EMS who DON'T perpetrate crimes of any sort.

If "Obvious Death", or after OLMC approval to stop CPR, Paramedics in FDNY EMS remove all IVs and airway tubes that they started, the body then gets covered with a sheet WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE FACE, and if not already on scene, NYPD is notified to respond for a DOA. The Medical Examiner's Office is notified, and unless standards have changed, FDNY EMS does not remove the body anymore, even when the body is in public view, as used to be the case.

Retrain to restrain?

"Dash-Cams" can save crews when the ambulance is, with no fault of the crew, in an accident, but are not cameras in the patient area potentially a HIPAA violation? How much stuff is already being seen away from "secure" areas on Youtube? A lot, as witness the stuff some of us link to in the various discussion strings. I'll refer to one specific video. A car ran into the toll booth at high speed, exploding in a fireball. It was supposed to be a tape exclusively for use within the highway operating authority, yet it was both posted, and then pulled from Youtube, within 18 hours of the event happening.

Actually, I wish to all: Salt, Pepper, Mustard, and Ketchup. (What? You never had "Seasoned Greetings" before?)

1) Murdock (Larry Hagman), although played as kind of a villain, had the only line that rang true, at least for me, in "MJ&S". He realized a kidney failure/dialysis patient was dying, but didn't try getting permission for going into full emergency response mode. After the patient died in transit, he commented "I hope they don't try to pin it on us." 2) Newspapers and the rest of the 5th estate have a simple philosophy: Bad news usually gets the big headline. Which would sell newspapers, the headline "Dying patient wills all usable organs to save lives of 10 children", or "Gunman kills 10 children awaiting transplants"? It is an unfortunate commentary on both humans in general, and the times we live in, that the gunman, not the patient making the organ donations, will get the front page. It is like the so called "att-a-boy/att-a-girl" awards, that no matter how many you've achieved, one "aw-shoot" wipes them all out. (I cleaned that up for family viewing purposes)

Ask this person if, like Pallas Athena, he sprang, fully grown and armored, from the mind of Zeus. He probably didn't. Then remind him that HE was the young newjack sometime in the past, when ol' Richard B the EMT's ambulance was still pulled by a triceratops. Ask him if he was treated with the "Don't go in the water until you know how to swim" attitude, and tell him not to do that to you, or anyone. Also, if he feels you don't know what you are doing, to help educate you on what he feels you need to know, as in "Stop cursing the darkness, and light that damn candle, already!"

Is that some kind or model of cellphone? BTW, I don't own any cellphone at all.

I remembered "on exertion" just after I started the computer onto shutdown. Then, again, could, and I hope I spell this correctly, Vegal Vega perhaps had something to do with this?

I'm going to add a small item to the mix, that the District of Columbia, as with almost any military base, or national park, is supposedly not "in" any state, and is technically the so called "51st State". They don't answer to any state authority, but answer to Congress. I think it's something called "Title 18". (If I am wrong on this, I know I'm going to get hit in the neck by Dusty or FireDoc5, and be glad for the correction.)

Uh, on excretion? I hope that we have a really bizarre typo error, here, but could you mean on inspiration, meaning taking a breath, as opposed to someone relieving themselves of fecal matter?

As has been noted repeatedly, I live and work in NYC. I personally do not expect to be responding to bear or poisonous snake attacks. However, some people have illegal (for within the city) exotic pets, so there is always an outside chance you might be treating for the exotic pet attack, either a non-escorted visitor, or the pet escaped. Then, of course, there are the fools who go into the bear cage, and these fools are not the keepers, as witness by this story on the link. I was working the EMD that night, and like most there, felt the LEOs shot the bears more to say, later on, "I shot a bear in the Prospect park Zoo". http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...756C0A961948260 Then, there was a circus in Forest Park, which in different years, had an elephant go berserk during a performance, and the Bengal Tiger escape. The tiger caused several accidents on the Interboro/Jackie Robinson Parkway. Wouldn't you be taking your eyes off the road if you saw a full grown tiger sitting by the roadway, in the middle of a big city park where usually the biggest animals seen are raccoons? http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1...elephant_p.html http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2..._chaos_in_.html

Is that person on the drinking team, with a bowling problem?

No offence taken. I still remember the blackout of 1977, with the opening of the "5 Finger Discount Store" and the "Fly by Night" Department store, not to mention the rioting. Then, there was the 1965 one, where and when I never had a clue what was going on until years later. I was, after all, just 11 years old, then. Due to the 77 blackout, I was in some emotional distress, remembering, while working, the aforementioned rioting in the one a few years back. However, I still recall what the LEOs told me afterwards. Seems they caught up with a thief carrying a small couch down the street on his back. When stopped and questioned about it, he allegedly told them, he was a psychiatrist making a house call!

Don't hold me to this, but I think he died less than a month after the episode originally played.

I heartily do not recommend those "shake to power" flashlights. All these years after the big blackout, and my wrist is still tired from trying to keep that damn thing lit!

Didn't he, in a "Married...With Children" take on "It's a Wonderful Life", take the "Clarence the Angel" position? He finds out he has to attend to Bundy, and screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Hide the sharps! Sounds like the Douglass/Stone version of "War of the Roses" just broke out again!

The guy with the sledge hammer reminds me of the cartoon duck, also with a sledge hammer, captioned "hit any key to continue". And as for the other guy, who throws his laptop/notebook against the wall, only to have a co-worker toss it back? Is that a "toughbook" computer?

Just Montreal. Twice. First time with friends on a whim (slept in a cow pasture) just before the Montreal Olympics, and second time on a bus tour 10 or so years later. Figure the second trip as about the time "Superman 2" opened, as they had signs all over the Niagara Falls (Canadian side) area, that the movie had been filmed there.

I will presume that a vehicle mounted FLIR cannot see around corners, or into gullies at the side of the road, to detect that approaching deer, or whatever wildlife. As for fog, snow, or any really bad inclement weather, for safety's sake, that is when a good driver slows down to posted road speed. LOL. Actually, I have driven in fog so thick on the "Belt Parkway", a posted 50 MPH road way, that I had to drive 10 to 15 MPH with the 4 ways activated, with nobody passing me, either! This, in my mom's car, not the emergency vehicles. If one HAS to go in fog, speed is the enemy, just go slow and sure, keep the headlights on regular beam, not hi, as it only gets reflected back into your eyes, use the 4 ways, and hope you don't get rear ended by a fool who thinks because the fog hides other traffic, they are the only ones on the road, and fly too low.

I never saw the original movie, if we still had a video store, perhaps.. Actually, I missed the first couple of years. Also, I am one of the rarest of Americans, as I am still using "Rabbit Ears", and am not on either "the Cable" or "the Dish", to catch the Sci-Fi Channel, so I'm watching Syndicated broadcasts. Actually, I tape the Sunday 0100 hours broadcast of Stargate-Atlantis (New York City's WPIX-TV11 WC Network), and watch it around 2000 hours after dinner on Sunday.