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This discussion is interesting, and it makes me wonder where blogs fall under all of this? I've come across several EMS/Fireservice blogs, and they are ridiculously specific about types of calls and in what city the call was... has anyone gotten in trouble for those?

Heh, yeah - most of the Cletus' around here don't think nothin' of watching porn with their fathers, uncles, cousins.:wacko:

Just a bit of anecdata - was talking to one of my instructors, and she said there are neighborhoods where they almost always go silently, because the local vagrants will squat in homes they know are empty, and will target houses that have had ambulances visit.

*raises hand* Hell, I did this on myself (before becoming involved with health care) on a huge blood blisters that covered the bottoms of my feet. My car had broken down, and I'd had to walk 5+ miles in high heeled boots, which caused the blood blisters. Only I used a steak knife.:wacko...

I made it! I'm now a medic student - classes start the week after next! I'm so excited. :)

Hey, just wondering. I'm a volunteer myself, though I do hope to become a paid ff in the future. At our local pro departments, fitness seems to be taken very seriously. At the volunteer service I'm in... not so much. <_<

I wonder what they're counting as "recruits"? Paid or both volunteer and paid?

Meclin, I would like to post about this in another forum... would you be able to summarize what the shifts are like in layperson speak? I want to make sure I get all the info correctly, and I'm not familiar enough with the shorthand you're using to feel confident translating it into non-EMS-speak.

oooh, is it anything like the brain-hook the Egyptians used during mummification? Send away, I'm pretty hard to squick. ^_^

Wow, cool! Do you have any book recommendations for books that have cool medical history info like that?

Here's something I've always wondered about the liver: the ancient Greeks knew that it regenerated itself (re: the myth of Prometheus). But /how/ did they discover this? Did they stab some animal in the liver, then hope it didn't die immediately, then after it was butchered check the liver?:wacko:

Tons of it out here in the Pacific Northwest, too. I did a report in High School about it, by looking at the local police blotter. Methamphetamine-possession accounted for about 85% of arrests, IIRC.

Man, as much as I despised living in SoCal, being able to grow a teabush on my porch and cure my own green tea leaves was awesome. Sure it might just be a placebo, but a few cups a day makes me feel fantastic!

I remember those! I think I left about 70% of my epidermis on one at the local pizza parlor.

My city got a couple inches of snow dumped on it this year. (Normally we'll get maybe one inch every few years) I have a 2wd 94 Sentra. It was fun driving past all of the stuck Jeeps and SUVs that were all chained up and everything.:P

Heh, yes - never underestimate the power of plausible-sounding BS delivered by someone in a lab coat and/or uniform.

The sharp smell and breathing probably also gives them something to focus on other than the nausea. What about using mint or ginger oil/diluted extract instead of alcohol? Those actually do help nausea when ingested, I wonder how smelling them would effect someone with nausea? Anyone know?

I've had it help with motion sickness before (it worked quickly for me, while waiting for the ginger ale to kick in)- so maybe if your patient is just getting carsick on top of whatever it is they're dealing with? Though telling your partner to slow down would probably help too.:P

The only time I used people shampoo on my horse was when she would get into tar weed in the summer, and get it all over her face. I'd use Johnson&Johnson baby shampoo to get it off, so it wouldn't hurt if it got in her eyes. Then in the winter she'd get mud fever, so I'd use super strength...

Yeah, but out where I am the corpses are usually a week or so old. In my experience with roadkill skin gets gooey pretty fast, esp. if it's during the summer.