Richard B the EMT

So, basically, you've instructed the doctor that patient care is not just a collection of signs and symptoms, but a person. Sounds good. Also, "Welcome Aboard!"

Start with your personal MD, if not authorized for Workers Comp, he or she can refer you. If you were still employed, I'd say get a Workmans Compensation Representative, but seeing you seem to have gotten the dirty end of the short stick, seek out the services of a Workers Compensation ATTORNEY. Either would get their fees from the local Comp board. I believe your employer screwed you royally. In the FDNY EMS Command, dealing with a LODI (Line Of Duty Injury), a supervisor assists you in filling out all associated paperwork, which also goes into the member's files at both the station level, headquarters, and the department medical office. Did any supervisor at the former employ even offer assistance in what in New York State is a required filing of the LODI? To all: Report any and all injuries, needle sticks, or contagion exposures, no matter how minor they may seem at the time, so there's a paper trail that they happened, even if nothing comes of it. If something does come of it, you're protected by the record of the previous incident. I think all states in the US have this covered under mandatory "Right To Know" laws associated with EMS training.

Sometimes on the same incident, let alone the same day.

That is so bad, I'm going to steal it and use it next year!

Might be the one I was referring to.

Well, here in Queens County, NYC, NY, USA, we have a Utopia Parkway, a few miles inland from where I live in the county. Does that proximity give me any leeway? As for me and Lady J, we're going on a boat ride, with a dinner included, to watch fireworks somewhere in New York Harbor for New Year's Eve (Guessing they'll be fired off from either Liberty Island, or from Liberty State Park, on the New Jersey side of the river).

1) Re the story in the link, if this is true, and not some nutcase just trying to get his name in the papers, it has happened before, far enough back that I cannot document, but has been in a "Ripped From the Headlines" Law and Order Special Victims Unit episode. 2) Re faith: The more people I meet, the more I like my dog. Present company, my family, and my Lady J and her family exempted.

Have a Happy New Year, before some miscreant ruins it for the rest of us. Do rabbits and kangaroos have a "Hoppy" New Year? Do 1960s "Counter-culturalists" have a "Hippie" New Year? Wishing all of us easy tours, calls that you don't have to do too much guessing as to causes and treatments, other drivers yielding right of way quickly, zero cases of "Paramedic/EMT/First Responder Shove", mutual respect between EMS field crews and ER crews, and mutual respect between EMS, FD and LEO crews.

Patient says that to me, presumptive Loss of Conciousness, and lecture on calling us Ambulance Drivers when enroute to hospital

Is this OUR ERDoc? Both seem not to mince words.

Ah, yes..."Palm-to-Forehead" syndrome!

Are the powers that be considering the new Orange level in the Triage Tag protocols in your area yet?

I thought it was the "Nuclear Winter" effect, following the meteor strike? So true!

Is there a smileyface to indicate dripping sarcasm?

Uhhh, best not go there, with all it's potential trouble!

Ask "superior", after the call, to assist you in correcting your alleged errors, as to specifics of "what was done 'incorrectly'" and "what to do instead next time", especially if the person also rides the ambulance or rescue with you. Oh, keep a record of where and when that person disrespects you as a woman, especially if it's done in front of others (witnesses), so if you want to take it to the Equal Economic Opportunities Commission (on presumption you're working within the United States) as him making for a hostile work environment, it would help your case against him. Sometimes the threat of the EEOC, and monitary fines, could be enough.

I'm going to be a bit harsh, but it seems like someone is trying to reinvent and copyright the wheel.

2 tent poles and 2 jackets, or something to cut down and strip 2 saplings, for the makeshift streacher, if I remember anything from the Boy Scouts in 1966. However, activating the 9-1-1 system for getting those actually trained in Wilderness Rescue to respond is a must.

I actually recall seeing much the same passage in the FIRST edition of the "Orange" textbook (yeah, I've been around THAT long in the field). I'd take a guess that it is only approved for use on spouses and offspring, with possible use with one's own parents. Did I miss something? Where did that come from? Some services use disposable "Temp-A-Dot" type thermometers, but not all do. Besides, would any of youse guyz put something like an oral thermometer in the mouth of an unconcious patient? Rectal thermometers are obviously more than a bit invasive, but try using one of them on an open street scene before moving the patient into the ambulance. Open question: With the theme of "if it's wet, if it's sticky, and it ain't yours, don't touch it" being the reminder of why we wear gloves, why would we lower our protection by pulling the glove back from either the inner wrist or back of the hand to make contact with the patient?

1) I mention that I am registered with the Medic Alert Foundation, out of Turlock, CA, USA, with all that information registered with them. Access is using the code number on the "dogtag" around my neck. They have some fine looking jewelry as necklaces, watches, and bracelets, as well. 2) In the EMS professional magazines, they have "thumbdrives" available specifically for such information. However, I sometimes carry my thumbdrive, not set up as a medic alert device, on a neck cord. Also, not all EMS services have the field availability or capability to connect to a computer to read them. 3) The ICE (In Case of Emergency) listing in cell phones has good points, but I go with the bad ones, like, in a Mass Casualty Incident, is the phone you found the property of the person next to whom you find it? If you use the phone to access the ICE list, could you be activating a secondary IED? If you call the listing of "ICE T", are you going to be connected with the actor who portrays NYPD Detective Fin Tutuola on "Law and Order-Special Victims Unit"? (I've been printed in "JEMS" on this before, as well as having it in a string here on the city)

As so often repeated from "Felix Ungar", from "The Odd Couple" reruns on TV:

Please relay my condolences to the personal and departmental families of our comrades, from me as a retired member of the Fire Department of New York City, Emergency Medical Service Command.

I am still surprised that they sued us, a loose-knit international group of mostly low paid people, some unpaid volunteers, whose only common link is the concern for the care of the sick and injured.

No, but if you hum a few bars, i'll fake it (I'm a guitarist, "Folkie" division).

Requesting a small clarification. Is that Level "1" as in "One", "I" as in Idaho, or "l" as in Lima (without capitalization)?