Recent content by emt1000

I had a "MCI" at a con home one year. An improperly prepared thanksgiving dinner caused a bunch of residents to come down with food poisoning. When we got on scene, there were about half a dozen people vomiting in the TV room. It was a funny sight with 2 engine companies and 4 ambulances outside...

We transported a patient for abd pain once that when fire asked if she was sexually active she said "no, my boyfriend is always on top and I lie there doing nothing. I like it better that way but I don't see what that has to do with anything" She was dead serious too.......

In response to the initial post. Why if you were transporting a patient to a SNF and did have the DNR in hand and the patient started going downhill enroute, then why did you not divert to a the most accessible receiving facility/ER and instead took the patient back to a SNF? If a patient is...

I know a lot of people who work for Gerber. Most of them like it. They said the management is cool. They work a 3/4 12 shift which means one week you work 3 12s and the next week 4 12s so every other week you have a 4 day weekend. However, if you want to work more, overtime is readily...

I have heard a couple of funny things on the radio. unit: Control from unit 4 is the fire department on scene yet? Control: I don't know, do you see a big truck in front of the house? Another time, this unit had 3 full arrests in 2 days and none of them came back. The next day they went...

be careful First off, if you are working for one of those "shady" companies who uses you as an "independent contractor" and gives you nothing more than a white shirt, badly stocked trauma bag, minimal direction, and nothing else, like some standby companies I have had friends work for, I would...