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My dad always said close to the same thing his quote was “if you are conservative at 18 you do not have a heart, if you are liberal at 30 you do not have a brain.”

Honesty depending on who your AME is it’s very similar to an old school sports physical but they also do EKG and vision charts. The most important thing you can do is before you answer any of the questions on the health questionnaire talk to someone in the know. If you answer yes on certain...

I have held a first class FAA flight medical for 20 years and I can assure you it will not prevent you from receiving it. The physicals are in depth but urine protein range is not looked at.

Maybe just hire the best person for the job regardless of their skin color or sex.

No sir. Further south. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sbsun.com/2020/12/22/san-bernardino-is-californias-most-dangerous-city-by-this-math/amp/

I guess one positive to working a station that covers the worse part of the most dangerous city in California is there more then enough structure jobs to go around.

I am jealous a slow shift at my normal station is still 10-12 calls. With a least one structure fire thrown in.

How out of touch with a professional organization do you have to be to think face tattoos and pink hair are only unprofessional to “boomers”.

I technically work 48/96 which is much better then my old airline pilot schedule of being gone >25 days a month. I am a sucka for OT though and work more like 72/72 most weeks.

I am not very familiar with volunteer depts because I am out west and there are very few. Are there any that are busy and get jobs or are they mostly just bedroom communities? I have always wondered if back east there are any busy urban volunteers

We have best on all our apparatus but are only required to wear them on certain call types. Do you have to always have yours on?

This study was based off the Lucas device and not the autopulse that does circumferential compressions. There is a large difference between how the two devices perform.

We learned that for us when we shock below etco2 of 20, 100% of the time we shock them into asystole. So if we continue the autopulse and bagging them with the threshold impedance device (ResQ pod) through an ETT. Once they get around etco2 of 25 and above we have a higher chance of shocking...

I work for Rialto as a FF/PM and we are realized a few years ago that we had room for cpr improvement in our dept. We have worked hard, studied a lot of progressive ems depts around the world to ensure, we not only have high ROSC rates but also, patients walk out of the hospital with full...

Jeppson private pilot manual is the go-to introduction to aviation textbook. It teaches you about simple aerodynamics, weather, airspace and principles of flight ie Vso, Vs1, Vx,Vy. Speeds maneuvers like V1 cuts, v2, and acceleration heights are a more advance maneuver and usually reserved for...