Recent content by Radioactive

I'd like to point out that Orthodox Sunni Muslim != Jewish. :glare:

If you've never had any sort of patient contact before, remember that patients (unlike doctors) are people, too, just like us. You can just go up and talk to them, all on your own. Tell them you're a student, they'll probably think that's cool. You can ask them questions. You can walk right...

It was certianly a joke. The grammar by itself is laughable. Sometimes I forget that sarcasm doesn't translate well in text. Maybe I shoulda used the proper [sarcasm on/off] denotation.

I just want to point out that this response is spectacular. I very well may be using it as my sig.

I actually have worked primarily in the ED as a radiographer, and did so for quite a while. I am familiar with the day-to-day there and I am under no delusion that EMS will be super-fast and exciting. Its not the pace or the excitement, but the content, that interests me. All I can do is...

At least you get a specific driver's license for driving an ambulance. Here we are required to have a chauffeur's license. Talk about lower than low, I won't be an ambulance driver, I am literally a taxi service.

Maybe this thread will come back around. I can see the merit in all of the arguments here. There are good points being made about the ongoing issues, but the constant conflict puts some of us in the middle. In my area, there are 2 semi-large private ambulance companies and the FD. I call...

I won't be getting my EMT-B cert for until early June, assuming that everything goes well and I'm sure it will. Should I bother applying for jobs before I have my cert in-hand, or will I just look stupid? I am asking because the job market here, like everywhere, is pretty thin and I want...

I am a watch guy, so I was kinda interested in this. I'm not really concerned, though. I would think as long as your watch is made of non-porous material (people wear watches with fabric wristbands?) and cleaned regularly, it shouldn't be any problem. As was previously mentioned, I also use...

So I did a bit of looking throuhg old Japanese textbooks for ya, for the sake of curiosity. The two symbols at the bottom of the tat are Su and Ru, for the most basic japanese written language of Hiragana. Independently they don't mean anything, but 'suru' is a word that makes the word used...

If you got time to lean, you got time to clean! ^_^ GL out there!

I say you did as well as could be expected. I'd have skipped the maple syrup, but it surely didn't do him any harm. Quick thinking with the 'modified airway adjunct,' too, as long as you were very careful with it.

Honestly, I mostly feel like an old man (at 30) in my EMT-B class, seems that everyone is 18-22. I have to just keep telling myself that my previous years in the medical field will keep me ahead of the pack. You guys are making me feel pretty good right now!

Why can't people seem to see the entertainment value in a thing? It's not a documentary, it's a prime-time drama. If it were a documentary on EMS, no one would watch it because it would be pretty boring 98% of the time. I find it highly entertaining. There's a couple of good looking women...

Along the lines of this thread: I had a nurse say to me the other day that in the near future everyone will be taking BP's at the wrist with automated cuffs. My instructor doesn't even like the normal upper arm type of automated cuffs that are in fairly common use, but he's pretty...