Recent content by Doc13

This happened a couple of nights ago to our night crew. They get a call around 1 AM for a elderly woman with chest pain and difficulty breathing, when they arrived they no one met them at the door so they went in and found her sitting on her bed with a stop watch in her hands! She started...

I am amazed at how many trades the Amercian army has, I'm in the Canadian Forces, we have 1 generic medical trade below nurse (Medical Technician 737), which covers everything from clinical to field craft. I envy your variety. Though I love the fact we get a taste of everything.

If you want to try a very demanding workout style, try CROSSFIT.COM, it's an excellent fitness program, and easy to tailor to your level of fitness. My old unit (2RCR L Coy) used it for our PT program. I was introduced to it about a years ago and it works. It takes dedication and it will beat...

I'm up in here in Canada myself, I can actually see out the window right now and see about half a foot of snow, and layers is right! And pretty soon were looking at around -30 F for most of the night Temps, nothing to do for the hands (the boards can get very cold). But it's not too bad as long...

Just saying hello to everyone, first time here. Really like the site, a lot of interesting things to read. As my profile says I'm a military medic, so most of my time is spent on foot or in a clinic, not in a ambulance though I have spent time in a few, but were all doing the same job right...

When I arrived on a nasty seen a few years back there was a total of 16 EMS of various backgrounds (EMT, Paramedic, MFR) that showed up, when I showed up a police officer laughed when I said I was a medic, hesaid I was the "13th Doc" to show up. Doc13 stuck with me ever since.