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Week 14, here, and we FINALLY got to live sticks. I sat down first (I always volunteer to go first just to get the ball rolling--no, I never learn). Partner got it on the first go, like he'd been doing it for years. But... he has. Guy was a PJ for 15 years, just that PA doesn't recognize...

Heya! Later! --Coop

Part of it is utter lack of familiarity with clinical environments and what goes on in one, part of it is a kind of stagefright... I can do just about anything fine on my own... but when I know I'm being evaluated, I fall to pieces. A twelve minute practical exam is hell on my nerves. The...

I scheduled half my time. Start in a couple weeks. Just hoping I survive, at this point. Later! --Coop

Yep. York. Later! --Coop

Late to the party, but congrats, nonetheless! Well done! Later! --Coop

I have secured my right to criticize the government until next November. Later! --Coop

On a call? Never. Only before practical exams. Later! --Coop

Glad to hear you enjoyed it, but the EMS deities out your way must be odd compared to ours... out here in PA, they usually show off for the ride-alongs and first-timers. I'm guessing "Knee Puncher" is IO... Later! --Coop

Whee! Yep. Here come the MICUs... Ugh. Later! --Coop

FF at 18-20 ...Hiatus... EMS at 34. Volly. Entered paramedic school at 37. Later! --Coop

Seems like the big killers for the first-semester students is pathophysiology, acid/base balance theory, and pharmacology. That's where I've seen the biggest reduction in numbers, anyway. Later! --Coop

More like intimidating and terrifying. Later! --Coop

The hardest thing for me, so far, is the impending hospital clinicals. Just thinking about them gets me all freaked out. Later! --Coop

HARE traction splint, in addition to others previously mentioned. MAST --heh. That's liable to set off a powderkeg, but what the Hey, they're still on a few rigs... Later! --Coop

Yes you CAN get an amen! Later! --Coop

Actually, you did, but whatever. Odarkthirty pager activation for some BS call is just part of the job. *****ing about that's pointless. It's gonna happen, sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so anyone that doesn't like being woken up had best used to it. Later...

Feh. I don't. I've seen a lot of the board members have some good things to say in their posts. I don't agree with them all 100% of the time, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to chat with 'em live... Later! --Coop

It's okay... ...I'll just find some group therapy somewhere... Heh. Later! --Coop

We don't have a choice, here. FD is always dispatched with us for MVAs--sadly, we can't even cancel them. 90% of the time, they're not needed and are merely in my way. Later! --Coop