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Maxwell House Dark Roast in the mornings, Folgers Decaf in the afternoon. The latter has excellent flavor actually.:D

....at least in the fine city of Grand Island. You can read about it here. If break time isn't truly theirs, then they should be compensated for that time. O.K., where's the coffee?<_<

Here's mine: Monday, Wednesday, Friday -30 minute warm up on stair climber -Bench press, 3 sets of 10 -Military press with bench bar, 3 sets of 10 -Bicep curls with curl bar, 3 sets of 10 -Ab crunches between cur lbar sets, 3 sets of 10 -Bent over rows with dumbbells, 3 sets of 10...

How about transporting a patient to undergo an abortion? Source. Here is my problem with that. Where does the buck stop? What will happen to EMS if people start objecting to treating alcoholics because a given EMT believes that the person desecrated their body? Will EMS personnel refuse...

I would be curious to know if there isn't some redundancy here. Do you have to pass a criminal background check in order to take your EMT class?

We have all heard about pharmacists who have refused to fill contraception medication for patients, based on the idea that doing so violates personal moral principles. You can read about such fights here. Interestingly enough, such "moral refusal" clauses have expanded to EMTs as can be read...

The only problem with this potentially could be not if you defended yourself against a PCP addict, but rather, how you defended yourself. I work in the field of mental health and can tell you with first hand knowledge that using approved intervention techniques(i.e.-MANDT, NCI) allows you to...

My community beat back a local proposal to have flouride added to the water about six years ago. Fast forward to the present day-a state legislator wanted it mandated at the state level and got the bill passed, though local communities can pass their own ordinaces to prevent such a thing from...

I've gotten it every year for hte past five. A few years I have been sick with other illnesses, not necessarily the flu. I figure that I owe it to my health, that of the patients that I might come into contact with, not to mention colleagues at work. It's just a smart thing to do:excl:

Awesome tip duly noted.;)

Very classy! B)

A few weeks ago, I joined the NAEMT and then received an e-mail about participating in a survey as to what the function and goals of the NAEMT should be. The questions on the survey pertained to issues such as EMS advocacy, further training, and whether or not EMT or paramedic issues were...

It was fairly difficult, but I made it through by studying the books harder and through a lot of extra time of practicing on skills. When I first started my course, I thought it would be a cakewalk, and then I got pasted on a few tests that got into the national registry type of questions...

Welcome to the zoo.

So, what was it? My story? When my oldest son was about two, he swallowed a quarter and it was a full-block. No air was moving at all and he was turning cyanotic. I was able to get him to cough it back up. Needless to say, I knew at that moment, that under great stress, I could keep it...