Richard B the EMT

Someonme reminded me of an incident in Junior High School. Every day in class, the science teacher would give a short test he called "Quizzies". After a particularly hard one, one of the girls said to him, "If that's one of your quizzies, I'd hate to see your testees." On realizing what she said, she then exclaimed "Oh, EMBARRASSING!" ran from the room, and has not been seen since.

Kiwi, again, not available (yet?) in NYC, some communities in the US are moving some Paramedics to do just that sort of "community medicine". I like the concept, and, again wish they could or would start such here in NYC.

Carl, I'll be easy here. Per your statement, what I'd refer to as an ambulette company is apparently in contract, as a non emergent medical transfer/transport provider, with the medical portion of the Public Safety Answering Point, hence, it's an operating policy within your jurisdiction, and that is Kewl!

While not addressing EMS as a hobby, I recall the story of the first grade boy who was asked to show which of 2 pictures was that of someone working, the man reading a book, or the one chopping wood. He chose the man reading the book, and was marked as incorrect. Turned out the boy's father was a booik editor, who chopped wood as a way to relax. OK, due to information I held back, that one was a "Gotcha!"

Re scars: depends on where on the body, and what the scar looks like. Remember the male and female cops comparing scars in "Lethal Weapon 3"?

Perhaps mentioned on a different string, but if a medical need is there, but not requiring an ambulance, I know some jurisdictions (definitely NOT New York City) can and do send a wheelchair coach, here known as an ambulette, to effect transportation. WelshMedic, are you in one of those jurisdictions?

It's been a joke that speeding enforcement is usually heavily enforced on out of state plated vehicles, especially on NY State plated cars south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Obviously, some here consider EMS a hobby, others do not.

Nowhere near the route, but enjoy the ride, and the company of those who can meet up with ya!

I believe I've heard what Spenac said from the Autobon Society, but cannot currently show documentation.

Bumping with a nice update! I'm back in my house, with electricity, heat and hot water restored. Mom came back to the house Monday, preceeded by the hospital bed, nessesitating a bunch of furnature moving, after already paying movers to get other furniture moved to the basement (lots of room down there after all that was thrown out after Sandy), and while still "sundowning", seems to be settling in. My brother, Al, and his wife, Pat, have visited her already, and my sister, Betty, came back from Vermont to assist mom's aides and me.

While I'm a NY Mets fan, I recall a NY Yankees Home opener was canceled due to a late season snowstorm.

Well! The island voted the islanders off the island!

"Crew Chiefs" duties and responsibilities can and do vary by town, county, prefecture, parrish, county, state, provence and country, due to "Local Protocols". I always tell new EMT City people to follow their local protocols. By the way, may I suggest a translator program, like Google Translate, which I now use to translate this into French? «Chefs d'équipe« devoirs et responsabilités peuvent et doivent varier selon la ville, le comté, préfecture, parrish, département, région, provence et du pays, en raison de «protocoles locaux". Je dis toujours aux gens des villes nouvelles EMT de suivre leurs protocoles locaux. Soit dit en passant, je propose un programme de traduction, comme Google Translate, qui j'utilise maintenant de traduire cela en français?

Please clarify Summer Biathlon, am familiar with winter Olympic biathlon.

Welcome to our madhouse! You said "I'm a "foreman" (chef d'équipe) which mean I have to coordinate my team's action and take responsibility for my crew's safety as well as the patients' and third person's" As someone who started in a community based Volunteer ambulance Corps, I'd say you're a designated "Crew Chief", kind of like a patrol sargent for your team.

Considering Liza Minnelli DIDN'T sing in it, it was still a good movie.

Ah! the old "25 and Under" insurance ploy. 3rd time I fell for it this month. Sorry about that, Chief. Missed it by that much. Actually, I did fall victim to that one, as I joined my original VAC at age 19, but the founding members had made an agreement with the insurance carrier for no under 25 year old drivers. I don't have access to the "stats", but it must have held up. In later years, the VAC entered into an informal agreement with the local LEOs, where we'd submit all our Motor Vehicle Operators (note how I didn't say "Ambulance Drivers") license information to be checked through the National Crime Information Center, before we'd submit the names to the insurance company. (Helped that one of our vollies was also a cop!) We'd advise any new applicants we'd be checking them out, If they didn't want to be checked, they didn't get in.

1) Not that belly dancing is something to be ashamed of, but I'd keep a wall between the job and the hobby, as it might create problems on the job, due to unwanted attention paid to the EMS personnel because of the hobby by other personnel. 2) As a believer in Terra Firma, the more firma the less terra, I've never understood the purpose of leaving a perfectly good aircraft in midflight.

Clarifications, please: Personal vehicle insurance required for personal vehicles? Sure. Personal vehicle insurance required for "company car"? Not the company's insurance on the company car? Or, just showing you are insurable to the company's insurance by showing your own? What if you don't have a POV, just a presumably clean license, due to preference of not wanting your own POV?

As most here know, "Momma B", my surviving parental unit, is in a rehab/nursing home, suffering from senility dementia, following our coastal evacuation from Super Storm Sandy. While my question is directed at the Doctors, Nurses, and Physician Assistants in our group, it is open to all. I'm the youngest (age 58) of the 3 of Momma B's offspring. I was, and am, still living in the only home I've ever known, a private house with my mom's name on the ownership papers, in Belle Harbor NY, following storm repairs that made the house habitable again (repairs continue). I've never "left the nest," living with mom before the evacuation for the storm, acting as caretaker for both her and the house. The middle child is my sister (age 63), married, and living both at a house 7 miles from me, and in a time share in Vermont, at least 6 hours away. My eldest sibling is my brother (age 65), living in North Dakota with his wife. Momma B (age 88) was admitted, on the Thursday after the storm, to an Assisted Living Center in Flushing NY, before I relocated from a cousin's house in Forest Hills NY, to the motel near Stuart AFB. From there, she was sent to 2 different local hospitals (local to the assisted living center) over 2 different weekends, including Thanksgivings Day weekend, first returned to the Assisted Living Center, and after the second hospitalization, with my input, to a rehabilitation and nursing center about a mile and a half from our "family homestead". From the rehab, she was eventually sent, for another weekend, to a 3rd hospital, which was bypassing 2 closer hospitals. At each hospital, they mentioned Momma B as a candidate for a pacemaker, due to apparent Bradycardia, but they never went through with insertion of such device. Momma B was readmitted to the rehab center following the 3rd hospitalization. I was just informed by my sister, that, although I am legally both Momma B's medical proxy and acting with Power of Attorney, all 3 of the hospitals, on the Monday following those weekends, contacted her at roughly 6 AM, to advise Momma B was to be returned to the sending facility. If I understand correctly, whoever called implied Momma B was being discharged, where should she be sent? When I was notified, it was more like a courtesy call at 9 AM. Does anyone know if this is some kind of standard policy, bypassing a younger proxy for an older, but not so geographically closer, relative? If this is standard, is it just New York State, or policy in other states as well?

I've never heard of individual drivers being required to maintain their own vehicle operator's insurance, at least here in New York State. It's usually under the vehicle insurance carriers for the employing company or vollie group.

I agree with ERDoc, as segment 1 day one is always orientation, including filling out the paperwork. I have to presume you filled out such paperwork to the home address, not your "corporate" one.

Rule 57: If it feels good saying it, expect to be written up by your supervisor for saying it. Been there, done that, lost another vacation day.

Damp socks create "Trench Foot". If I understand correctly, drinking beer, or any other beverage, out of your socks simply means being barefoot, or no socks while wearing your footwear.