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I think I have been around too long. I can relate to a whole lot of these.

Back to finish. You may have a voice in the back of your head that says a call is B.S. just like when you are on a truck.I don't know if I would go as far as a lawsuit here . This is just based off of the article ,but it does seem that some disciplinary action is called for. Many of us who do...

In my experience in dispatch I have never had occasion to ask this question,I hve thought about it a few times. The patient has already stated their problem by telling you they have been shot. This is all we have to go on until somebody gets on scene. I would have sent law enforcement and a...

Great post. In my opinion the best skill any medic can have is patient evaluation skills. I would much rather say that I have a skill at my disposal but this patient does not need it than to need it and not have it. All some patients need to stabilize them is a little bit of TLC if all you do...

I know from some situations I have been in it would be nice to have parmedics who are trained in rope rescue and other fields,but this should not be built in with the EMT-B program. Every area has its own special needs that medical personnel have to deal with at one time or another. We recently...

Hey still around. Between work class and trying to teach rescue-tech classes don't have much time to get on.

Lord Help what a "HAM"

I don't know if this happens in any medical classes. But recently I taught a rescue-tech VMR extrication class,and had some of my students ask if this was "a no fail class". Seems that some of their instructors were making any tests they used open tests where the class answered all questions as...

I can not say what is considered abnormal for this area,as I have no experience of the Dallas area. But 10 minutes seems long to me. I would think that on a major highway that dispatch was probably taking numerous calls on this accident. Possibly some of the calls were coming from people who had...

My bad counted wrong.

Not really sarcasm. Just a jab at the thought of taking something that is simple to begin with and trying to simplify it even more. This is in my opinion one reason this field is having trouble moving forward.

Wow 18 long hard days. This course should turn out some great EMTs. Need to use this as the new national training standard.

The extra 4 minutes may or may not have made a difference. But the problem for me is that you should not make a detour to your station to clock out just because you are on over-time to find out. I know that a lot of areas are taking efforts to keep over-time to a minimum. However I doubt if...

The wildest animal I have ever been attacked by was a protective pomeranian who tried to eat through my turn-out jacket sleeve. Not much of a problem just glad he was not a doberman or something. So I don't know for sure what my reaction would be in case of a real attack.

"I would imagine that some ER MDs would not handle field medicine very well either, outside of their comfort zone, without all of the fancy equipment and support staff. Crawling into a wrecked car and figuring out a way to strap the patient to a backboard might not be something they could do...

According to your profile you have been doing this since you were 13?

Am I reading the news article correctly? Was he responding to a vehicle fire? I am sorry that this young man lost his life. But how can anyone justify a full on emergency response for a car fire? when you weigh loss of property against a human life the scales come no where near balancing. I put...

Don't have a set thing to tell them. Just try to keep their spirits up. What is worse than someone asking if they are going to die is to have an accident victim that is in bad shape look at you and calmly tell you that they are dieing. That will really get the adrenaline flowing.

I agree especially in a volunteer setting where we may not run as many calls that education is the key. For example in our volunteer rescue agency we instituted a policy about twenty years ago in an effort to reduce the chances of accidents. a person(regardless of age) must be a member for at...

My vote from the dispatcher side is the arm chair quarterbacking. But this is from both sides the dispatcher should realize that the crew in the field can see what they are dealing with. But on the same note the crew has to understand that the dispatcher is the one getting the information from...