Recent content by hrmeeks

I like the gerber version comes with clothes/seatbelt cutter window punch and other nifty little gadgets but the greatest tool of all is the blade it doubles as a prybar. for those time you lock yourself out of your ambulance

not true rn have many different skillsets and each one varies some state to state but they have a standard teaching pratice credits transfer between schools

standard teaching academy....... b/c every school has a different way of completing the program

you hump 16 calls in 24 hrs and see if you wanna go a gym for an hour.... me all i wanna do is hit a bed for about 10 hrs. Besides personal fitness should be exactly that personal. A job cannot mandate that you do any p.t. only that you pass testing. As for the paramilitary comment i ment...

I am gonna be out for a bit but i am interested to see how this one goes

We are all different in what moves ( doesnt move) us. and your right Death is death, just not always expected

Thanks for bringing us back on topic

Many of those in the hospital do not have the dicipline respect integerity comrodardy to make it in the feild either. The ones that do mostly come from military or similar backgrounds(PD FD EMS) I am just saying there are many similarlities. BTW Spelling is not my strong suit No offense...

I ll spare you the prehospital hx lesson, nor did I say I was fire. But many of our traditions come from those areas. Hell even the ranking system in this community come from that.

age does matter 1 month old is as close to innocent as we can get. Grandma had a chance at life and to effect it. The recent young one didnt have that chance. May sound cold but its true.

1 doc 20 docs doesnt matter. To paraphrase Mother "nobody could have done any better back there with the limited resourses we have."

Its a very paramilitary style industry, again just how a lot of people are on the job

Humor does not translate well in type. Alot of the "jumping on" comes as intended humor. You are right on alot of your points, problem being cockyness and thick skin are not shirt that go on or come off easy. Not saying any of it is right or fair. Just letting you know it s the nature of the...

reminds me of a line from Tommy Boy "new guys over in the coner pukin his guts out "

I' m down. I with Epi though, but I do have some bad arss ER docs usually right over my shoulder for help