Recent content by khorosho

Why do you say that, friend? Quite an assumption on your part, don't you think. I am relating a tale, to be taken in the lighthearted spirit given. Get over yourself. Bring it.

Yes. Also throughout the course. My first choice of partner for practice was a huge powerlifter guy with pipeline veins a blind man could hit from across the room if he lobbed a rig backwards over his shoulder. But often I got stuck with HER, a drop-dead gorgeous fetching young lass with big...

Yes, seems I brought up RMI before. Someone replied he knew a handful of folks who went there, also mentioned western WA saturated with EMT-B's, not enough work. I had expected to have time to study for NR, as the written (computerized) test isn't included in the course. Can't tell you why I'm...

Try Red Cross for phlebotomy course. Mine was excellent. Just my opinion.

Nobody has mentioned Remote Medical International in WA state. WEMT-B plus some invasive skills I'm told are allowed only in the darkest jungles or far out at sea. Expensive, intensive, residential. Check out the digs. How to afford? Hey, most of us have two functioning kidneys; you can get by...

My fault Notice to all and sundry: just to let you know I have been duly warned and accept it with full humility. I responded harshly to a reply to an entirely different posting. My only intention was to protest what I felt, erroneously, to be unfair derision against prospective entrants into...

Neither is communicating like a human being and a gentleman for dabblers, tough guy, so get over yourself.

Thank you. I get your points. Surely there must be SOMEplace it is useful besides oil rigs. Maybe the familiarity with those skills would make it a little easier in paramedic training later? I do have a good mind to go ahead and do it anyway and let this forum know what develops thereafter...

Tom, Thanks for posting re: RMI and WEMT/MPIC. I'm new. Have been considering specifically RMI long time. After kicking it around and picking it apart forward and back long time, cannot find reason not to enroll, except the price tag, and I'm almost at peace with even that, considering they...