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An adults assisted living facility. The residents are classified as discarded. No money, no family assistance. The government assistance, about $20 per person per month goes straight to paying staff and upkeep. The place is neat and clean, occupants well cared for, but bare bones. Only around 4...

With my past history the doc consensus is they want me to check into the hospital for 24 hours post shot. Weird me out, will they? If I'm going that route I want to add my hernia laparoscopy and carpal tunnel release jobs in with the package. Nothing quite like asking the medical profession to...

I'd like something clarified here. Are EMS Providers Hated? Is this in reference to the viewpoint of the general public? That is beyond far fetched. What would best describe the general public point of view is appreciative. Undoubtedly there are a lot of individual incidents where some degree...

Just my take. Alcohol is a disease or debility, like other recreational drugs inclusive of junk foods. The games the neurons and blood sugars play. With THC, the jury is out in my case. I have a neurological condition and any hint of a high sends me into a pretty severe malaise that comes...

I'm unsure what exactly that is in reference to. But in the case of much of SE Asia, in Japan - the Yakuza, in China the tongs, in Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia and Thailand, the society elite, all follow the money and all have a very strong influence with politicians or are politicians themselves...

At the risk of beating a dead horse here. I'm attempting to be as lucid as possible. With alcohol, it's multiple factors 1+1+1... Adversely affects fine motor skills + affects judgement = A few million traffic accidents - clinically proven. But there is a third factor. Socially acceptable to...

From word go, I'm anti marijuana, along with any other drug that isn't a necessity. That being said, marijuana is getting somewhat of a bad rap in that it's out of the closet so to speak and effects of it combined with alcohol are very well know. We aren't getting anywhere as much info on the...

Not seeing hate, but most certainly disparagement within ranks such as the usual 'i'm going to call BS' @CarSevenFour was subjected to. Whether it's some gripe from the general public or the 'I've never heard/experienced that therefore the person is a liar' attitude it's unfounded, unneeded and...

Seems to me this all boils down to the dignity of the individual. Without dignity and self respect an oath is meaningless. With them an oath is unnecessary. As a post script, the political circus in the US the past few years has clearly demonstrated even under penalty of perjury an oath isn't...

Opinions can be truth. We are talking about a philosophy here. Ethics, also called moral philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles. -Britannica Ethics is...

@ffemt8978 Fudge. Oh well. Thnx.

@E tank I would very much prefer to agree with you there. But an irreducible conundrum remains.. For example, under certain circumstances a person could justify the deliberate premeditated death of another as in a greater good scenario, while others will maintain that such an act can never be...

"Ethical standards are purely subjective, based upon the dignity of the person, their self respect, and their moral fiber." -A paraphrased assessment of Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man. I'd follow that up with, "There remain some truths too ephemeral to be captured in the...

I'm wondering what follow up information has come to light since that post. The clinical details, not lamestream media noise. Any links? White papers?

For me, a very informative, instructive maybe a minute and a half - full EMT patient assesment course. Patient brought in, ambulance, unconscious. Elderly frail female. Nurses having trouble with vitals including BP monitor and intermittent artifact irregular ECG. RT was called in, supervisor...

The original question, EMS... Hated, is simply too vague and covers way too much ground. I've seen and been in civil disturbance situations where medical persons were verbally called out. It was way out of line and equating individual ambulance crews that responded with law enforcement during...

Show me an EMS that doesn't review the calls, undertake critiques, and always looks for room for improvement. The US is pretty good, but has a long way to go. The know all, end all be all mentality is always the major stumbling block, yes? I quit EMS because the level of training passed me by...

Well, I just started hating them here. (Thailand). Shades of the US 1960s. Physicians up in arms about medicine being practiced outside their supervision. Want a nurse along on any ambulance that performs advanced life saving techniques. A new flavor of EMT has been created, Emergency Medical...

@DrParasite Informative link. Should be a sticky on the forum. Professional, legal, moral and ethical considerations will always be a point of contention the world over until such time as level of training and response capability becomes a standard - which just isn't going to happen. 911 went a...

This all reminds me of working an FD. Wire down over the top of a car. We called the private emergency services only PG&E number. Was the same public information number with a recording telling us their office hours. Called the city hall asking for their PG&E number. Same thing. Called the PD...