Richard B the EMT

Calling the doctor a Quack, I have no problem. Calling him a Medicine Man is insulting to the father of an ex girlfriend of mine, who actually IS one, in the Deneh Navajo tribe. Calling him a Witchdoctor is insulting to me, as that is my CB Radio "Handle!"

irme said Understand I am in full "tongue in cheek" mode. You are not a servant... You're a "Wages Slave"![/font:0f7e4b50ea](So am I!

I have not expired! Therefore, I am not outdated. I also date! I have a "steady", and I am her "steady", but then, we're going off topic HERE.

I have some vague memories of something similar, with an FDNY fire fighter. Not body building, but a run up the stairs from the ground floor to the top floor. ...Of the Empire State Building? Press Corps? Letterman appearance? Dumb guy? I think so.

Aren't WE your family?

I was not driving that day, but my "Caddy-lance" hit a seagull in midflight, with the beacon-light. Had a devil of a time explaining that to my employer. ...And I am asking how that poster hit a couch with the side mirror! How? HOW? HOW? HOW?

Euphonisms? I think the word is actually spelled Euphemisms. Anyway, how does the terminology of Public Service Employee, Emergency Service Employee, or Public Safety Employee strike you? Actually, I think this discussion has already been beaten and flayed, under if we EMSers are to be categorized as "Public Safety" or "Medical", and I feel we will be arguing that for at least the next decade. (Note how carefully I don't publicly take a side, here?)

A mention I have heard about National Registry, from members, which I am not: You can get the NREMT in New York State, but the New York State Department of Health does NOT recognize NREMTs generated from outside the state's borders.

No signs, yet, anyway, but have a hydrant (with the side of the type 3 box) and a "Walk/Don't walk" traffic light box to my alleged credit.

1-800-swindler? That's my law firm: Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe!

Correct answer: All of the above. Can I refer you to a good lawyer?

I would take it in a slightly different direction. Perhaps as a contributing element, it is the universal 9-1-1 Emergency number. 9-1-1 is a victim of it's own success. Need help for anything, call it. Someone will respond to you, most times even if it is only an emergency for you. That is why 9-1-1 systems get calls for broken pipes, both the water mains under the street with accompanying street collapse, and pipes in the ceiling of the old lady's apartment. I could go on, but I won't.

Firedoc5 said I guess I concur on that point of view.

In no particular order, associate, co-conspirator, colleague, friend, and another "resident" of EMT City!

Only 3 years? I'm still hearing stuff from when I started in 1973 being repeated yesterday!Some of this stuff was from BEFORE I became a member of the FDNY with the merger in 1996.

Doctors, like any other medical professional, shouldn't mess around with anything not directly associated with the diagnosis and treatment of whatever the case at hand. Think of the lawyer who needed a tooth filling replaced, swore the dentist in, by asking him if he was going "to fill the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth?" I'm not making fun of the doctor, or the complainant against him, just trying to make with some levity here. Some may find it misplaced. To them, I apologize.

I believe most of us have heard of the actor Dennis Quaid. He nearly lost his baby twins, when they accidently were given an adult dose of medicine, instead of one at strength for pediatrics, and dosage size. The 2 containers looked the same in both strengths, but the manufacturers are going to change label colors, at minimum.

I have found that even the most disagreeable supervisor prefers being told that there is a problem, from the person directly involved with the problem, than finding out there was a problem, and the supervisor has to chase down that individual. They may still be disagreeable (the character flaw of the supervisor?), but most want to help you, than shoot you! (If they want to shoot you, perhaps YOU have the character flaw?)

Again, we use the example of Leeches, formerly used for everything from EDPs to fractured limbs, now used, although not in the field, for increasing blood flow to reattached amputated extremities. Newer protocols will always be evolving, as our knowledge increases, as well as our understandings. Theoretically, yes. Unlike us "Old Dogs" learning "new tricks", they have no outdated knowledge and protocols to unlearn. Yes. There are going to be good solid reasons the older protocols were implemented, as well as the same for the newer ones. There will also be solid background when a portion of an old protocol is updated with a new portion. Old school and new school should help each other, for that reason. See my last answer. New protocols might be easier to do with older knowledge, and the new stuff can be taught, if with reluctance, to the old guys (like me!). When us old schoolers came in, we were going to change the world, and the ones we referred to then as old schoolers helped us, weather we wanted it or not. We "former new schoolers" are the old schoolers, now, and offer our help to anyone who needs it, asked for or not. Please ask, as we will ask for help on the new stuff. (theoretically, anyway) I cannot answer that one here, as each new individual will be taken on a case by case basis.

I was down in the dumps, when a voice came to me, and said So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse!

I cannot say if this is the case, but it seems even surgeries are being video taped, for "purposes of education". If this was the case, either with the hospital or the doctor, guess what is going to be subpoenaed, and, one way or the other, assist in the guilty/not guilty decision?

I say again the New York City is a rule and law unto itself. Depending on the call type, a CFR-D (certified first responder-defibrillator) engine company, a BLS ambulance, an ALS ambulance, or combinations of the three will respond. Our call types are prioritized in advance, for call type "A", CFR-D Engine with BLS ambulance, "B" gets BLS/ALS response, "C" gets ALS only, "D" gets BLS only, and "E" gets the "Triple" of CFR-D/BLS/ALS. The FDNY EMS EMD has 50+ call types, with, for example, "ARREST", for a cardiac arrest being a Priority 1, an "EDP" (emotionally disturbed person) a Priority 7, and, for administrative purposes, an ambulance "down" (out of service) for mechanical/electrical/flat tire reasons is a Priority 9.

Going on memory, not research, in the case of the surgeon who carved his initials into a patient, I believe it was on her abdomen, near her navel. The bad jokes at the time were that the doctor considered himself an "Artiste", and signed his work.

Just remember that any municipal ambulance vehicles will be what someone, or some committee, feels is the most "bang" for the lowest "bucks." Other times, it ends up being a lot of stuff that is truly not needed, like what I hear for some luxury car, with cupholders that heat or cool the cup. Just because the next town over doesn't have it does not mean our town couldn't survive unless we beat them in buying such item. Just have the person or persons responsible for the purchase make a list of what the federal KKK-A-1822 (whatever letter they are now up to) standards call for, what your state/provence demands, and local requirements, with some "wiggle room" for what might be added before this vehicle is being replaced, with a new set of "specs" being created. Ambulance dealers can provide samples of types one, two, three, and "super rescue" body types, to assist you in deciding which you might want or need for your usual response area. One thing: Due to the routine way we abuse the vehicles, don't purchase a used NYPD car, or an FDNY EMS ambulance. (On the other hand, the way FDNY Engines and Ladder Truck vehicles are babied, they probably are a good deal, financially, for many years of use after we replace them at about 10 years of age.)

I'm told I was late in learning how to talk. I've been making up for lost time ever since. Someone complaining that I talk too much asked if I ever shut up. I borrowed a comic book line, allegedly told to "Black Canary" by "Green Arrow", ("Don't give up until") "Ten minutes after you draw your last breath".