Being a Driver?

[FireGuard69]

You know those "lizards" are human beings. They are someones mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, brother or sister. They have lived through the Depression, WWII, Vietnam, and a 1,000 things you will never know. That elderly man might have been a Medic at Bastogne or a Teacher that was loved by his students. That elderly lady might have worked at Boeing during WWII and helped build planes that won the war. She might have been the mother of a soldier killed in Vietnam.

My point is that these people are not happy being "stinky" and old. They are proud people who deserve our respect. Would you want someone referring to your Grandmother as a lizard?

It's time for EMS to grow the f*ck up and quit using derogatory terms when referring to the elderly, they deserve a sh*t load more respect than that.

Off Soapbox

And now he is lying in bed, GCS of 7 on a good day. Being kept alive by a massive cocktail of meds that is prolonging the aganzingly painful wait until death arrives.

By whos choice?

I have NEVER, not ONCE called a pt who did not put themselves in their condition a derrogitory term to their face, nor did their pt care suffer.

I know that myself, my parents, and their parents do not wish to end up like that, and have specifically detailed that out in legal documents.

If you can get on here and say that you never, not once got back in your truck and said to your partner, "Damn, that was one stinky pt! Good thing I was up here driving!", and laughed it off, then congratulations you truly are SuperMedic.

But guess what, we are not all perfect, and while we don't say it to their face, we drop all pts down, to relieve stress, make light of a serious situation, whatever.

After a trauma, you have never said, "damn that guys road pizza"

or "hamburger"

never called a chronic drunk who leaches off welfare to buy his booze "a waste of taxpayer dollars"?

Sure, we make our pts look inhuman, take them down a few pegs, but guess what, I will treat all of mine with nothing but the utmost respect to their face, as well as their families.

Oh, and IF my pt is CAO enough to make conversation, then I do. And I have taken WWII vets, and a teacher from the HS I went to a near half century before I was even born.

Do not mistake my making humor of doing a job I didn't like to pay the bills with disrespecting the pts.

[Scaramedic]

Imagine a member of the Media or a member of the public reading what you posted. How do you think they will view EMS? Making flippant statements to your partner is one thing, but be warned even those can end up burning you. In this case you posted it on professional website. You referred to incapacitated people you are taking care of as "stinky lizards."

I have made rude statements, but yours crossed over the line. Your statement was so over the line, if I was your partner I would kick you off my truck. If I was your supervisor I would write you up. I have seen and written up people for saying less and one person over hearing it. You said it and thousands of people can read it. Including the media, patients, patients families, other medical professionals, and future employers.

Let me ask you a question how many apps have you filled out and they asked for an E-Mail address. Yet they never have contacted you by E-mail? You wanna know why they want your E-Mail? Let's see Fireguard69...

<Fireguard69@yahoo.com>

Firehouse Forums

The Watch Desk

EMT City

Florida Today

International Association of Crusty Old Jakes

MySpace - Zuke

From your MySpace I could post about fifty different things alone. Including where you live, your schools, your groups, your blog, quotes like "I am from New Jersey. I curse - a lot. I say "go fuck yourself," and I say it often cause Im big and buff and you are small and inferior.", etc.

Do you understand now why you might want to watch what you say on a public forum?

None of that came from info on this site. I just googled your screen name. More and more employers are doing checks like I just did. They take that E-Mail address you gave them and search forum entries to see what your thoughts are. Still standing behind the "stinky lizards" comments?

[FireGuard69]

Hmm. I forgot I was registered at floridatoday.com.

And did it ever occur to you that I am well aware of the fact the employers do google searches, and that I have a professional AND personal email addresses?

like go_screwyourself@blowme.com?

You have stabbed your Brother and Sister EMS Professionals in the back for less then "lizard slingers"?

You CANT make me like treating certain members of our society.

Chronic alcoholics, nursing home pts. who are being kept alive despite being in extreme pain or are being neglected in "Nursing Facilities"

Homeless "skells", oh wait, does that offend you too?

Granted, most of those people are there due to an addiction, or they are incapable of making their own decisions.

I will treat them with the respect and high quality pt care that they deserve, but you can not make me like them.

[Scaramedic]

I will treat them with the respect and high quality pt care that they deserve, but you can not make me like them.

I never said you had to swap spit with them turbo. I just said you should think before you open that hole in the middle of your face. You'll learn someday though , but I give up.

[VentMedic]

And did it ever occur to you that I am well aware of the fact the employers do google searches, and that I have a professional AND personal email addresses?

like go_screwyourself@blowme.com?

There are alot of people on these forums. Most never post. Occasionally something familiar will cause you to check the profile of someone. Company officers and supervisors get interesting email all the time from employees or concerned citizens who have found an employee's profile or posts on the net especially if something about the company is posted.

FireGuard69, I'm sure your company already has seen alot of your postings on the net. You are an open book now and have already provided alot of information for anyone to do almost anything with.

Although, I did Google "VentMedic" and that is definitely not me, except in the EMS forums. I don't go near snow. And, of course, I would not give my true birthday and age.

[spenac]

I did Google "VentMedic"

Are you allowed to say you googled yourself on here?

[Dustdevil]

The only time I like just driving is when I worked lizard slinging, cause they all stunk to high heaven, and there is no challenge to B(L)S interfacility.

It could have been a challenge. You just FAILED to make it so. Fifty bucks says if Scaramedic or I examined your BLS patient assessment skills right now, you'd FAIL miserably because you FAILED to use your time wisely and chose to stop learning so you could be an ambulance driver instead.

You don't know if it was a challenge or not, because you never even tried.

But guess what, we are not all perfect, and while we don't say it to their face, we drop all pts down, to relieve stress, make light of a serious situation, whatever.

Wait... they weren't even a challenge, but you were stressing over them? Dude, your days in real EMS will be short.

[spenac]

Please do not enter our health care profession with the goal of driving ambulance [-X . We only want people interested in becoming health care professionals =D> . Can we help you to see what is involved in being a health care professional :dontknow: ?

:clock: Seems much time has gone by and OP has not commented. Perhaps I should see if I can make my offer in chat to them :pottytrain5: .

[spenac]

OP pm'ed me. Has a serious interest in helping people, just did not convey it in post. Lets all give good advice to help another young person as they look toward EMS as a profession.

[Dustdevil]

OP pm'ed me. Has a serious interest in helping people, just did not convey it in post. Lets all give good advice to help another young person as they look toward EMS as a profession.

Cool.

Actually, I was giving him the benefit of a doubt. I was thinking maybe he was doing some serious research for a paper on how pitifully inadequate EMS is in the United States. And, now that I think about it, I think every person wishing to enter EMS would have to do a twenty page research paper on that topic before being accepted into school.