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He is very active in the FD, but I don't know if he has any structured work out plans...I doubt it as much as he works. Haven't really paid attention to see if he's built like an athlete, but I don't think he's overweight. Does that help any?

He says he can make himself very calm and then hype himself up again. Eh, whatever...I just want to know how to prevent him from messing with me when it's my turn to practice skills on him. ETA: He did say that the instructors do occasionally give specific instructions to the people that assist...

No, this was an EMT, not a student. He should know how to find pulse.

I know a guy in our FD that helps out with the EMT refresher courses. He told me last night he would be coming in for skills nights for my EMT course. He went on to say that he went in to help at EMT refresher course last night and one of the EMTs couldn't find his pulse, that he was screwing...

Bahaha. That's so wrong!

We're covering Anatomy and Medical Terminology tonight. Can someone please write out some information using the correct anatomy, abbreviations, and medical terms-you know something you would have to write on or read on a PCR or similar. It doesn't have to be from a real patient or, you can make...

Can you/do you access the MyEMS site?

We're in NYS. We had a snow squall earlier today. We lived in Raleigh area of NC...snow will gridlock you guys....good luck!

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I would call your MD, and let them be the deciding factor just to cover your butt considering there is a discrepancy within the county and federal laws. ETA: I can sort of relate to this patient. Trauma center hospital in our area is always packed, the staff is snippy (or well, at least not as...

214 pages, plus updated protocols. NYS feels it's important enough to give every EMT-B student in the course I'm taking a copy of the protocols, but not the updates because that would be more money they don't have apparently, according to the coordinator for the course. :blink...

Started Wednesday but that was registration, signing my life away on paperwork, etc.

Should I buy it?

I got a pager last night from the Chief. It worked at the station but does not seem to be working at my house, which he said it may not. The Captain said it's because we're in a valley. She told me to put it on a certain setting and, even if I can't hear the voice message, I will still hear an...

At least one hospital in the area calls to follow-up on all ED patients. EMS does not do that.

I will be a volunteer EMT-B, which I clearly state in my signature. If people don't like or accept it they can suck it as far as I'm concerned. I don't judge people for getting paid for doing something I will eventually be doing with no financial gain. Money was never my motivator, meeting a...

Funny!

I grew up on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Before I moved here, I lived in the Raleigh area of NC. It took me about a year of being here, living in a rural, low money, farm area before I stopped threatening to move back to NC. That was almost 6 years ago now and, although there are things that...

We're a small (as in population, not size, we're actually larger in sq ft) rural community in NYS. Our FD and EMS are volunteer. Typically, calls come through text messages sent to EMS and FD volunteers' cell phones. I am not on "the list" yet and so I have to keep my ear out for the sirens at...

I understand that completely. It's ingrained in my nature...listen to many, sort it out for myself, and do what I feel is the right thing to do in the end.