Richard B the EMT

I have to watch a few "MASH" reruns, as they always were giving Frank Burns that med, to make his urine turn blue. I currently don't recall what the med is.

Wow! I walked into that one, left foot forward, and smiling! Ya got me, hook, line, and sinker.

"Packaged", at least as I know things, means any or all of the following have been or are being done: limb immobilization, head/neck and spine immobilization, oxygen administration, albuterol administration (for asthma), patient moved to transportation device (stretcher/carry chair) for transfer to the ambulance, positional treatment on the transportation device (head elevated, feet elevated, patient totally flat, patient right lateral recumbent), up to actually securing the stretcher into the ambulance. Depending on the ambulance service provider, some run 2 EMT crews, with one driving and the other doing active patient care while enroute. Some run as many as 4, again, one driving, and the others doing the patient care.

Could you repeat the question? You know I can't hear you when the water is running.

Where in your contract as a person does it state that you HAVE to carry one? Even with all my gizmos (which is why my Lady J sometimes calls me "Inspector Gadget"), I don't even have a cell phone.

Is it because you don't own a string of Polop Onies (pronounced poLOP onNEYS)? That would be Kramden and Norton's mispronunciation of Polo Ponies!

...and Lieutenant Worf, on at least one episode of ST/TNG (Star Trek/The Next Generation.)

Spelling error, minus 5 points. That, perhaps, should have been Lt. General George Armstrong Custer (no "D"!).

That almost sounds like a company I used to work for. They kept the cabinets IN the ambulance locked, and didn't give a key to the crew, for fear we'd actually use the supplies on calls, and they'd have to pay for more supplies. At least we knew we made the minimums on supplies, all the time.

James Rado and Gault McDermott, "Age of Aquarius" from "Hair".

As I get berated by a bible thumper colleague, I had to come up with this one when I wanted to cuss:

I think the key wording is "UNDER NORMAL OPERATIONS", ambulances don't move deceased persons. My experiences have had departmental funerals of the NYC EMS, and later of the FDNY EMS Command, where, at least in the area of the house of worship, or funeral chapels, where the religious service is held, an ambulance draped in the traditional black and purple mourning bunting actually carries the coffin as it passes the members "Manning The Rail" for the funeral detail. Side note: The FDNY EMS Pipes and Drums Corps was founded, in part, because the FDNY Pipes and Drums Corps allegedly didn't like to play for non fire fighter funerals, even though the EMS members of the department are considered "Uniformed Members".

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/1...ops_share_.html New York Daily News Editorial.

(Anonymous) (Allegedly, numerous Jewish and Italian Mothers, otherwise, our good friend, Anonymous, again) (Bartlett, of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"*) *Unable to verify, lol.

How many of us have crews of more than 2 persons per tour in the vehicles? Just asking, so that the "rig check" can be split between the on duty people. FDNY runs 2 person crews. When "Teching", that member checks the inside of the ambulance, when "Wheeling," the member checks the outside compartments. Optimally, each FDNY EMS Ambulance has a compliment of 9 personnel, 2 on each 8 hour tour (with one, per tour, on regular days off) and 3 tours a day. We do have some units that run only daylight, or evening, or both. When I first started on the ambulance designated as 47Adam, with understanding that all would take care of stock and cleanliness issues immediately, tour one (0030-0830) cleaned the ambulance inside and out, tour two (0830-1630) made sure we were overstocked on disposable supplies, sheets and blankets, and tour three (1630-0030) made sure both diesel fuel tanks on the ambulance were topped off. 2 full tanks usually could last for 6 tours continuous running. In inclement weather, supervisors would have each tour top off the tanks, no matter what, especially when a weekend was when the storm was to hit, because the station then had no fuel tanks, and we'd be filling up at the sanitation department garage a block away. After 2100 on Saturday until 0700 Monday, sanitation's pumps were closed. This is no longer an issue, as the station is now relocated to a combined fire fighting/EMS "house" with our own tanks, sanitation as 1st backup, and a commercial gas station authorized to refuel us and bill the city for the amount, kind of like a city credit card.

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Could it be that some fear being ridiculed for their opinions? Even if the opinion is based on bedrock solid information? OK, then it turns into the bashing. One not mentioned here, there is always the proponents of "Bran' Spankin' New" ways of doing things, versus the "But we've always done things THIS way" crowd. I mention the link at the bottom of all the postings, under the New Topic link button, that, when clicked on, will have the city send you notification when anyone puts in a posting on that string. The way it is supposed to work, and it seems to me to be doing it well, anyone posts after you read the string, you get an E-Mail advising there's been new postings. This works as one E-Mail, with no further updating E-mails until another posting after you've read the string. This is automatically done when you post on a string in the first place. If you are watching such string by activating this link, or after posting, the link changes to one to click if you no longer want to follow the string. I have used both on this site.

No, Rock Shoes, while, at least in my opinion, they should, they do not.

The article states Due to popular culture, they may refer to themselves as MI-6. That says they are really known as the SIS. Where are Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuriakin, the men from UNCLE (United Network Command for Law Enforcement)?

As someone who is almost always told that I talk too much (I resemble that remark!), sometimes I don't speak, as I may not have anything to contribute. All the reasons for reading but not responding are all true, besides, didn't our parents, and some grandparents, advise us all we have 2 eyes, 2 ears, and one mouth for a reason?

This is one of those times you need good communications with the crew you are relieving, and the dispatch center. When I would be coming back from a late assignment, I would verbally advise the relief crew what supplies were needed, and even try to, if I wasn't completing the paperwork from my tour, get the stuff from the stockroom to hand to them. When I was the relief crew, if given an assignment before checking the vehicle, if I felt we had enough onboard supplies to complete the call as given to us, I'd radio dispatch as taking the call, but ask for the notation in the Computer Assisted Dispatch system unit history for my unit, that we had "an unchecked vehicle". The verbal signal would be taped, anyway, for further documentation, should there have been a problem. It would be easy to tell dispatch we were out of service due to "No O2." We'd make sure to do a quick check, then, of all stock and equipment, for compliance with "Part 800" of the mandatory equipment and stock. Also, when at the hospital after the call, we'd give some kind of excuse for documenting "extended at hospital" to finish the "rig check", and if needed, clear from the hospital but go "out of service" for return to the station to get the restock supplies on board (my station is quite close to both 9-1-1 receiving hospitals in my service district).

Going back to the Good Sam laws: If memory serves me correctly, Good Sam only happens when the person rendering aid, to the level of training, performs the aid with no expectation of financial or other type of payback.

British Navy Commander James Bond is reputed to be on extended detached duty working for MI-6, with a "Double Oh" designation as a "Licence to kill". You've probably heard of "007. Bond. James Bond". We admit that there is a CIA, but the UK denies the existence of a real MI-6. Therefore, there might not actually be such, but the activities of British spies might be under the real MI-5. (Strange. The Spell check is asking if I meant Chia Pet, as opposed to the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA)

Per the Tuesday December 2 newscasts and newspapers, he died from asphyxia caused by a crushed larynx. Someone stepped on this guy's neck.

Might I amend that? Due to security concerns, only leave the ambulance running if there is a "key remove" system installed on the vehicle, one that stalls out the vehicle when anyone attempts to move it (as in "steal it") when the ignition key is removed, but allows the engine to keep pumping heat (and in the summer season, cold) to the entire ambulance.