Recent content by Mark Lassman

I know this is off topic, but bear with me just this once. Funny you mention “minimum wage”. When I worked for Event Medical Services (EMS, great initials, yes?), this was 2001-2003, we paid our guys a whopping $7/hour. Straight. No overtime, straight pay. Wow. You can really support a family...

“Gerber Baby”, that’s cute. Love it. Was that something you called yourselves or others called you? And “Care Bear” is great, too. Care, I knew. I used to work at Event Medical Services (Los Alamitos) and Care was down the street in Cerritos, and one of our accounts. They bought all their...

Got other one. The name is also the name of the owner of the company: “Gerber Ambulance”. They’re still around, too. Whenever I’d see them, I’d say, “Look, someone must need an emergency delivery of strained peas! “Unit 23, Unit 23… 225 South Street, apartment 6A. Ran out of strained peas...

I never knew, at that time, what “AIDS” stood for (regarding the ambulance company name). Never gave it a thought. But our hospital had some of the first AIDS patents in the Valley back then, and every time I would see their rigs on the streets, I’d think that you wouldn’t want to see THAT one...

Here in Los Angeles, we used to have several ambulance companies with really stupid or poorly thought-out names. Anyone remember “Professional Ambulance Service”? What a great name. A lot better “Amateur Ambulance”. We used to have “Doctors Ambulance” (I think they’re still in business?), as if...

So what’s the story with these clowns? Did they get their county license? Are they still in business?

That makes sense. Thank you.

Generally speaking, you are probably correct in that a DNR “does not apply until a respiratory or cardiac arrest has occurred.” However, there are also probably regional variations as to what constitutes a valid DNR request, and it is also possible that a DNR order could be “customized”, in...

I USED TO have my EMT, but it’s been 10 years since I had to let it lapse due to work situation, but… I am in my 3rd year of law school, and wanted to chime in on this issue. Normally, a “DNR” order means exactly that. If the patient, or their legal representative, has signed a valid DNR...