Pros and Cons of EMTCity

[Happiness]

Pro's

Learning from others

Others learning from me

Special friendships that will last

Con's

Trolls

Trollette's

[Chief1C]

Pros:

You fricken people

Cons:

Hey, I still have a killer hangover, and possibly a concussion - so I can't think of any right now that haven't been previously addressed.

[RaceMedic]

BAAAHHHHH

Haven't decided i start to type something then change my mind ... ohhh well im sure ill come back to this sometime

Race

[ERDoc]

Pros:

Let's me be nostalgic for my EMS days

Great for seeing how the rest of the world operates outside of my little universe, conclusion: the urban guys get all of the glory and the rural guys get to be doctors

Our friends from Australia/NZ. I can't get enough of their posts. I can hear the accent in my head as I am reading it.

It's fun to argue with trolls from time to time

Cons:

Abandonment of my work and family obligations.

[mobey]

conclusion: the urban guys get all of the glory and the rural guys get to be doctors

Wait a minute......

[Eydawn]

Pros:

I get to sound off and nobody will fire me.

I get to use my brain, and nobody will fire me. (seeing a pattern here?)

I get to learn from some of the most wicked smart people in medicine I've ever encountered- from RN's to paramedics to basics to MD's (how cool is that?!)

I get to get inside different scenarios and see how different minds critically approach patient care, which allows me to integrate that information into my own fledgling practice as a student nurse...

I've made some wicked cool friends who don't diss on me for being under 30 ;-)

Cons:

I should be studying...

I get too easily distracted by the trollage

Did I mention I should be studying? ;-)

[BushyFromOz]

Pros

• membership is international providing a wide cross section
  
• varying levels of experience
  
• honest (sometimes brutally)
  
• seems to be a real desire to learn here
  
• Dustdevil
  

Cons

• crotchitymedic
  
• Time zone difference makes it hard to keep rack of discussion. Quite often you dont see a topic early enough and anything you have to say has already been said
  
• A lot of it is US Canadian specific and sometimes i dont have a clue you guys are talking about
  
• Addictive
  
• Trolls in general
  

[WelshMedic]

If I make it over there...you buying dinner?

I got you covered. You choose

or

I'm a classy guy you know!!!!!

Seriously, you are more than welcome, I may even stretch to this:

[Kiwiology]

Our friends from Australia/NZ. I can't get enough of their posts. I can hear the accent in my head as I am reading it.

What in the bloody hell are you talking about we don't talk funny; I tell you its you blokes who have the nunngered vocabulary

Although this one time in rural New York ....

Me: Yeah this is Tom, wicked allergic to bee stings, stung twice, reckons no SOB but his chest sounds a bit buggered, wheezy, doesn't seem crook like cardiovascular, bit perkier on some salbutamol, you blokes got adrenaline eh like if he goes to poo?

Upstate rural New York volunteer EMT: <blank state like he's being beamed up by aliens> .... what?

Dramitisation - may not have happened

[tcripp]

Welsh, don't be surprised if I come and take you up on the offer...

Edited October 25, 2011 by tcripp