Richard B the EMT

You are not mistaken.

Most who know me from EMT City, know I started ambulance/EMS work in 1973, on the Peninsula Volunteer Ambulance Corps (Queens County, NY), and while still with them, eventually would be with 5 Private (proprietary Inter-Facility Transfer, non 9-1-1) companies, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation EMS, and then after "the merger", the FDNY EMS Command, all the time while continuing with the VAC until the squad went under, in 1996. Even after PVAC, went under, I continued, and am currently continuing, as an individual member of the New York State Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Association's District 4 (New York City region). If you can reschedule an interview, advise them if you feel you can balance both being one of their volunteers, and working for a "paid" service. Also advise them that you know that being a flight medic is a distant dream, but any and all experience you'll get at the "vollies" will help in, say, 10 years, when you'll try to become one. Now I go negative: If you don't feel you can make that balance, don't set up the new interview. It would waste both yours and the interviewer's time. Whichever way you want it to go, I do, however, wish you good luck.

Intercourse, Pensylvania?

OK, then, I won't invite a second copyright violation case.

I attended a Continuing Medical Education class last night, and the lecturing DO, connected with the North Shore/Long Island Jewish Hospital system, advised us that he had all his Medical Students ALSO take EMT!

A good point. I know some folks who are pasty white in midwinter, but get so tanned in the summer, that some white supremicist "skinheads" driving by, called them by one of the derogatory terms used by such as them as put-downs for "African-Americans" (the "N" word). Also happened to me, several decades ago.

I am unsure on this, but I think they have to turn in the empties, too.

Please post, if available, their www dot address, and then, It will be international.

After Shackleford won the Preakness, those scriptwriters at WCBS/2HD TV were at it again. They wondered if the jockeys got assigned their horses by resorting to a "Gallup" Poll. They must have been horsing around. When office workers left their desks to observe the next to last space shuttle going up, did they leave signs on their desks saying "Out to Launch"? Do they have coffee breaks at the Tetley Tea Company? Then, again, the Ortho clinics depend on breaks.

Wait a moment, please? Did Camping make the earlier pronouncement for 1994, or 1984? I thought I read he made the prediction for 1984?

At FDNY EMS stations, every tour, meaning every 8 hours, the supervisor and one of the Paramedics open the drug safe, and count the narcotics therin, both assigned to oncoming crews, and "leftovers" that go back to the citywide stockpile warehouse. Both sign the record book as to what the 2 counts are, and duplicate that into the station log book. When the messenger van from the warehouse comes in with fresh supplies, the light duty Paramedic driving the van has their own book, which now makes 3 separate entries countersigned by the supervisor, the Paramedic designated to assist in the count at the station, and the Paramedic assigned to the messenger van. I am presuming there's a log book at the warehouse, countersigned by the van operator and a supervisor at the warehouse. If narcotics are opened, and either not used, or not used up completely, either an ER Nurse at the hospital, or the supervisor at the station, must witness the distruction of said narcotics, and sign the appropriate paperwork, which either is included on the call report, or a separate set of paperwork, with copies kept in the storage safes at the stations. I'll supply copies of the department's "Ops guide" at a later time.

When I bring a patient into an ER, while not known if legally binding, my patient is supposedly under care by the ER crew. When the designated person in the ER signs my call report, that makes it legally binding. The Triage Nurse tells me to put my patient into what specific examining bed, or a seat in the waiting areas, but I do not "D&R" any patients. That translates to "Dump & Run", which is illegal, or should be if it is not already. There's no continuation of care, even if you've just been misused as a taxi service. As for my patients whom the Triage Nurse advises me to place in the waiting areas, they only get placed there after my partner and I give a brief presentation of the patient. They will get the full ER triaging, just slightly delayed, but they wouldn't be going to the waiting area if the Triage Nurse didn't feel, from our presentation, that they were stable enough to do so.

Now we wait to hear the others involved are under arrest...

Minus the AM/FM radio, what about noting the time, while responding to another ambulance in a crash, at 10:13, as a signal 10-13 means "Officer needs HELP!" in FD, EMS, and PD nomenclature in NYC.

Wouldn't make much of a difference in my Primary Area of Response, as both local hospitals, and the 2 nearest Trauma Centers, are all in "Black" neighborhoods. All 4 of these hospitals are good ones, as I see it. I can understand that mentioning race (Human?) is good for the number crunchers and paper pushers. However, as long as all humans bleed red when cut, it doesn't affect the actual treatment and transportation. Even "Captain Spock" would be treated correctly if I had him, dispite his Vulcan green blood.

As I recall, FDNY issued a directive that race was only to be recorded when the patient was unable to be identified, such as an "unconcious male black, Unknown history"

I jusr found a link to the Fire Fighter Olympics, much as I described. Link to http://www.fireengineering.com/index/articles/Wire_News_Display.1420866771.html

Farook Mohammed, now a Paramedic Lieutenant in the FDNY EMS Command, has released 2 other videos in as many years, for EMS Week. This is his third such release, over Youtube. While I admit not being a fan of RAP style entertainment, this is a good representation within the genre, and the EMS message overall.

Are we not your brothers and sisters?

Certain call types and call priorities elicit FDNY engine companies responding with EMS units under NYC 9-1-1 control.

How about being a part of a large incident, multiple agency and discipline response, and the AM/FM starts playing Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"?

Is there a problem? Yes. Was it reported? No. Yet you want the problem corrected ASAP? Yes. Even though you didn't report the problem? Not my job to report that there's a problem. Does this sound familier to anyone else, aside from Dusty and me?

Maryland may be different from New York, but, due to "being burned", many volunteer ambulance and/or fire agencies near my area of the state, insist that someone volunteer for a minimum period, set by that agency, before they sponsor that member in an EMT class. By being burned, I mean folks who simply apply to the volunteer agency, just to get into an EMT class, then while in EMT school, or on completion, drop out of the volunteer agency. I should have mentioned that, while one can get into an EMT class, either funded, partially funded, or unfunded, without being in an EMS provider/agency, the schools give some preference to giving seats to those who need the EMT training "for employment or usage" in an EMS agency. I know of a few agencies, who advised the EMT schools that a class attendee just used the agency's name for obtaining a seat, and the school threw the student out, claiming the student falsified the application, which, in a way, they did.

Sounds like you can now play with the big kids. Welcome to the inner sanctum.

Nearest I have to that is, I listen to a station that concentrates on 1950s thru 1990s Rock and Roll/Pop/Doo-Wop (WCBS-FM, 101.1), and, on a few occasions, when starting to drive to work, they played "I'll Be Ready (theme from Baywatch)", the Beatles' "Help", Carol King (I think) "Help Me", Elvis Presley's "Feel My Temperature Rising", or numerous artist's renditions of "(You Give Me) Fever". At least 2 times, after unsuccessful CPR runs, the ambulance AM/FM radio played Queen's "Another One bites The Dust".