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If I had failed 2 station I would get up to 2 retakes on those stations. You fail 3, you have to take a refresher.

I failed... I passed Medical Assessment and Trauma Assessment with flying colors, only lost one point. AED/CPR - only lost 2 points BVM - I tried to hook up the O2 to the mask instead of the BVM. Every time I practiced I had the O2 hooked up, never paid attention to that. Spinal - KED -...

I have my EMT-B practical tomorrow, wish me luck!

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Worked 7 more hours... No calls.

The city gets the same thing, either: A: Grandma Fell down. B: COPD C: the nut house.

Why do you feel bad for them? And why are you digging me for using the term full arrest? What is you definition of a "white cloud rookie", just so I know if I've been insulted or not. I hope I haven't, I'm just curious.

So for my EMT Class I'm supposed to do ride time so last week I signed up to ride in a semi-private ambulance in a different part of my county. I could have rode a much closer city ambulance, but every single one of their calls is typical, and their transport time is less then five minutes...

Her roommate said she saw her drink 3 nice tall glasses. Like 24+ ounce cups, and that she had only been there since later on, and the patient said she had more before, although maybe only a cup or two. Afterwords when on medications we also found out she had been kind-of taking her thyroid...

My corps requires all members to take 100 and 700 the first month of the semester or they are inactive. Ontop of that officers have to take 800, and all EMT's have to take 200. So far I have 100 and 700, but I'm going to do 200 over winter break. They email you a certificate. Heres...

Last night we got a call for a student who was restless and had a racing heartbeat. Got there, took her pulse, it was 104, and she seemed way too awake for 0230. While questioning her, our attendant can't seem to find the problem. I look around the room, spot a tea box. I ask my attendant for...

A tip: When your back gets better, I suggest starting some core body exercise. A lot of people who do heavy lifting don't realize that you hurt your back because you do something you don't have the muscle for! Your abs and lower back are key to keeping your back healthy. The abs are important...

Sure. http://www.pnhp.org/single_payer_resources/administrative_waste_consumes_31_percent_of_health_spending.php

Can we do some math people? Lets say that the current cost of an HMO is 100%. And let's remember as I said before that because HMO's run on profit, 31% of you're insurance costs go to towards profit. Alright, now lets take 100% and subtract 31% What does that equal? 69%. This is the MAX cost...

Had a puker last night an managed to hold in my stomach contents. Might have went ewww... a few times in my head, otherwise all good...