Richard B the EMT

Was that you I observed on a Youtube video? Actually, there's a bunch of this type stuff there, including 2 Ladder companies colliding, overturning one. Then there's the classic one of a Ladder company parked on the train tracks, tries getting off at the last instant...didn't quite make it (from a rail cam on the locomotive). What I personally find scary is EVOC dash cam videos, both how bad some of us drive, as well as other, "civilian" drivers, and a recent training video I saw last week, of a Raleigh, SC, Tiller-man Ladder company overturning while turning the corner at too high a speed, video in co-operation with the Seattle WA FD.

Anyone remember the "Brown Eye/Blue Eye" test of a few decades ago?

No spellcheck? Cut and paste into your server's e-mail, as most have spell check in that function, then cut and paste back into the Reply box. Admittedly, I don't always do this, but it is available. I just had to re edit, as I found an error while not using a spell check, as a case in point. FYI, one can change the text, but not the titles.

These responses speak for me.

This is usually handled by the nice folks in the EMD. They explain that, per FDNY policy, we don't do transfers from an ER unless requested by the ER crew through the EMD. The FDNY attitude is, the patient is at an ER already. Personally, I have had some call from a block away from the ER, where the patient has removed themselves from the waiting room, and request going to another ER, due to real or perceived delay in being seen. Our field-side stock answer, as my district has 2 hospitals roughly 7 minutes away from each other, is, "You want to go to the other hospital, where they have just as large a wait to be seen, and start over?" We'll still take them, if they insist. On FDNY EMS Queens East frequency, we have a few famous frequent fliers. We had one that just clicked along, where the ambulance was en-route to him before he got off the phone with the EMD, on scene, evaluated, transported, and arrived at the ER, 2 blocks from the patent's residence, all in under a half hour. HOWEVER...a half hour after the team got him to the ER, EMD got another call from the man, who had walked home, and called again, because he felt he hadn't been seen in a timely enough manner! Side-note on that patient: One ambulance crewman actually had a call report book of 25 sheets pre-filled with the man's name, address, and past medical history. All that was needed was the date, times, crew's badge numbers, and the current vital signs.

There has also been discussion, not on this particular string, of legal penalties for calling 9-1-1 when there is no emergency, both pro and con.

Once again, I posit that the 9-1-1 system has become a victim of it's own success. Everyone calls, from an EMS viewpoint, from stubbed toes, to multiple gunshot wounds, to jet airliner crashes. Reeducating the public will take somewhat longer, as to when to call 9-1-1. Once again, I mention the Public Service commercial, showing a large 1930s party, which, while needing the police to calm them down, is not a true emergency, followed by the classic King Kong, carrying Fay Wray up the side of the Empire State Building, obviously a true emergency.

You been hanging with Spiderman, again? LOL

That rated 2 groans, one from me, the other from Momma B.

Just to be obtuse...

OYYYYYY!

NYCEMS9115, I think I figured out our descrepancy. While basic EMT instruction might not give the "how to" of filling out call reports, or ambulance driving, I was referring to my NEOP (New Employee Orientation Program) given me by the NYC Health and Hospitals Corportation EMS, circa my Appointment Day in 1985. I could post instructor's names, but they aren't on EMT City, that I am aware of.

I must presume the vehicle doesn't have a buzzer to alert to open doors when the vehicle is in gear. Heck, my minivan has that feature.

Say what? I spent 2 days in my initiation class, and had refresher sessions over my 25 years in municipal service, on how to write a call report. I also spent a week in mid july heat on the runway at Floyd Bennett Field, where I had EVOC. I thought we worked for the same system?

"Oh, that's just how he is"? The unfortunate attitude of the majority of most populations is, if someone is a bad apple, because you work with him or her, YOU are also a bad apple. You could be the one with the most lifesaving award ribbons pinned to your class A dress uniform in your entire city, but because one person has a bad attitute, and it is your unfortunacy to be assigned with that person, the public will view you as another POS. It's major Male Bovine Excrement, but usually is the case.

Hockey: I am so removed from Hockey, I don't really know which team to root for locally, Islanders or Rangers. Did I hear that Curling is actually an Olympics sport?

BEorP, you are aware that Kiwi is in New Zealand? Different country and protocols. Better update him, yourself, Ben.

The way FDNY EMS Command does it, depending on certain variables, a patient can refuse aid and/or transport. Obviously, under other certain variables, the decision must and will be made with On Line Medical Control. No matter what the variables, if a "Patient Contact" is established, a PCR (Prehospital Care Report) must and will be generated, even if all it states is an unknown (male/female) refused all attempts at aid, and walked away from the crew at location, to points unknown.

There are probably real Doogie Housers out there, just not with TV shows about them.

Snipes was much better in Passenger 57

Is not the presumed "Job One" of all EMS, FD, and LEO the same job: Return home at the end of tour in relatively the same shape as when leaving home for the job? You can't help anyone if you need help for yourself. On the generalized subject of carrying a firearm, when my girlfriend and I were jumped and robbed, the way they surprised us, in addition to gaining the money from both our pockets (and my EMS ID and badge), they would have had an additional firearm to play with.

"Dogs Pile On" at 70,000 feet? Perhaps I am a bit more pessimistic than you, even with the theme "Let's Roll" still on my mind. However, I think any hijackers or simply folks with evil on their minds would let on if they were planning to fundraise in exchange for passenger's lives, or simply hurt as many people as possible, to the point of turning the aircraft, and all aboard, into a kamikazi run. Also, but speaking for myself, I don't have any idea how altruistic I might be, trying to take on an armed person at risk to my own health and safety.

I had only one scene where my patient was armed. While doing a patient evaluation, I stopped, and, as PD was on the scene, I invited the nearest one into the ambulance. Turned out the patient was an undercover LEO, and he surrendered the piece to the uniformed officer, who then called the LEO supervisor over. The LEO sarge had custody of the weapon last I saw of it.

Sounds a bit like you've been hanging with Garrison Kiellor, again.

Perhaps overly "Politically Correct" but what about "Working Single Mom"?