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  1. TheLocalMedic

    Impact of Legalized Recreational Marijuana on EMS?

    Tigger, you're absolutely right about smoking being unhealthy in general. Inhaling heated gas and particulates isn't good for you. As for not touching the vaccine comment… May I? Vaccines DO NOT cause autism, and I still have no idea where the SIDS reference came from. Yes, autism is on...
  2. TheLocalMedic

    Impact of Legalized Recreational Marijuana on EMS?

    … I think that they were remarking on the fact that smoking in bed is dangerous. Ever see a mattress fire? Those things don't spontaneously combust...
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    Idiot partners beware!

    Not only are vegans terrible partners because of the finding food issue, but they have really really rank gas. Worked with a guy who went vegan and I started showing up to work wearing a full face respirator just to prove a point.
  4. TheLocalMedic

    the 100% directionless thread

    Had a little fun with a tourist from the UK today. Jokingly mentioned it felt like earthquake weather and quickly had him convinced that somehow warm winter weather affected plate tectonics. Glad to know us Americans aren't the only dumb ones out there.
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Does anybody ever actually use the chat? I opened it up last night and left it open when I went to bed, and there was NO other activity logged.
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    the 100% directionless thread

    I've been on a movie bender lately. Been to the theater more in the last month than I have in years. Not sure how I feel about that….
  7. TheLocalMedic

    Impact of Legalized Recreational Marijuana on EMS?

    Here's how I imagine it going down in California… It gets legalized in the state. Big tobacco companies like Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds will buy up large tracts of land in the central valley and plant big areas of marijuana crops. This mass produced marijuana will have a pretty...
  8. TheLocalMedic

    Impact of Legalized Recreational Marijuana on EMS?

    I heard that California may be the next to legalize it. And I'm awfully surprised we weren't the first. Gotta be all those OC republicans tipping the scales… <_<
  9. TheLocalMedic

    rectal administration of ASA

    We don't do NG tubes where I'm at, bet even if we did I imagine that I'd have priorities greater than trying to mush up ASA and get it down the tube during or after an arrest.
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    Christian Scientist scenario

    Seconded. There is precedence for parents refusing or withdrawing care for their child, and even cases where a minor is granted the ability to make decisions about their own care, but those are not emergent scenarios. The parens patriae policy holds that the state has a vested interest in the...
  11. TheLocalMedic

    Christian Scientist scenario

    I'm not sure why you believe this. "Natalie Rippberger, eight months, died December 9, 1984 in Santa Rosa, California, of h-flu meningitis. The parents, Mark and Susan Rippberger, had retained a Christian Science practitioner for spiritual "treatment" but would not get essential medical...
  12. TheLocalMedic

    the 100% directionless thread

    I just sit in the theater with a camcorder… Quality is a little crummy, but it sells!
  13. TheLocalMedic

    What is your most ridiculous call?

    Edited your spacing so it makes sense… however the word you were searching for was actually *since* instead of sense… And the reason they can't take a taxi should be apparent. I won't explain any further because it makes my head hurt. Right, but you inferred that you operate the same...
  14. TheLocalMedic

    What happened to paramedic students?

    We hired a whole gaggle of newly minted medics and EMTs recently, and I have to keep reminding myself to play nice. Depending on the culture at their training academy they can sometimes come out with the misconception that they really have been taught everything they need to know. But don't...
  15. TheLocalMedic

    What is your most ridiculous call?

    ^This. If it's an IFT, get all your questions out of the way while you're picking them up, or look it up in their chart. Transport time on an IFT is sleep time for them and report writing time for you. If you haven't figured this method out on your own already, you're probably either a newbie...
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