Recent content by DrParasite

Because she is a lesbian... openly... it's not a secret... nor is it a slur or anything negative. it is what it is. I'm openly Jewish... if you want to call me a Jew... ok? it's a statement of fact. Some might not like that she's gay... it's an all boys club, as FDNY is 98% male... some...

hold up... I need to throw the BS flag on this... no one is saying she will be bad at the job because of who she sleeps with. Not the rank and file, and not people on social media, and no one on this board. Implying otherwise is intellectually dishonest and gaslighting. What people are saying...

At my last EMS agency, we were under the county's "emergency services" department, and the department head was an EMT-I with 20 years of firefighter experience... We were also the largest division in the department... I would encourage you to check out Wikipedia, as it lists many of the...

honestly? NYC has had a history of picking some questionable Commissioners (as per Wikipedia), and by questionable, I mean people without firefighter experience, especially at the senior level, so I don't think this is that much of a big deal. Also, just because the commissioner lacks...

right, but why not? since there are objective criteria for the mimics, why did the monitor have such a hard time identifying the mimics? Couldn't they have been programmed to identify the mimics due to their objective definitions? and I needed to look up wellens sydrome; thanks for making me...

To be completely honest, that's what I was thinking... however I know many/most paramedics are taught to ignore the dianosis, which never made much sense to me... Since the cardiac rhythms are mostly defined objectively, I would think they are mostly accurate... outside of artifact from the...

Beginning in February, Kern County will become the first in the state to equip all EMS providers with handheld, AI-enabled 12-lead ECG machines KERN COUNTY, Calif. — Starting in February, Kern County will be the first county in California to deploy new AI-powered electrocardiogram machines to...

Key takeaways: 1) "The crash report says the fire truck was going 61 to 67 miles an hour at the time of the crash." 67 mph in an engine is reckless, especially in city streets. Fire Law Blog has additional information 2) They had a dashcam, but it wasn't functional, as per TFD dash cam in...

I know I tend to be on the conservative side on pain management, but this guy gets whatever meds he wants.

I'm curious if that is the time until the ambulance arrives, or until the first responder on a non-transporting fire unit arrives

I know what I'm getting @MMiz for Christmas

there absolutely is money in medicine... there is no money in 911 EMS, or in emergency medicine (and I think Trauma surgery is questionable), but healthcare (in general) can be very profitable, esp for big companies. One of the reasons hospitals buy ambulance companies is to keep all of the IFT...

for the ad-block free version: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rural-ct-towns-see-emergency-110000843.html here are the "far behind" response times: The Average response time was 8.16 minutes; this is a case of "duh" because rural times are ALWAYS going to be slower than urban ones...

And? the definition of a professional degree is something that leads to a doctoral-level program. Under the new definition, programs in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology, and clinical psychology are...

Please explain... don't all patients who enter the ER see a provider before discharge? Yes, nurses are autonomous in some areas, and, assuming she was in the L&D department, I would have thought a provider would have evaluated her sometime during her stay, even if they were packed.. if this...