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  1. MedicPrincess

    the 100% directionless thread

    After loosing 100lbs, I am so dang FREEZING!!! All the time. My poor partner is a sweaty guy naturally anyway, so I am in the truck with the heat on wearing gloves and covered with a blanket and poor thing just tries to tough it out.... Oh did I mention thats when it is only 45 degrees out...
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    the 100% directionless thread

    I just woke up from my nap.... but is 2 hours really going to be enough for work tonight?:blink:
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    EMS affairs..?

    mmmmm... Jimmy Doherty..... DEEE-Lightful!!!..... and Bosco, especially when he was angry..... Now if only my FF and Cops could be half that yummilicious!
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    the 100% directionless thread

    You can have your dang sports, just don't run your mouth when I am watching LMN with a box of Kleenex in my hands... OH... and I can take my own trash out :P
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    the 100% directionless thread

    Guys, if you come home to find your lady in a full on fit of her temper, it IS NOT FUNNY to "poke that snake" to see what will happen...... And if you should decide to test the waters to far, you have lost the right to get your feelings hurt when she has suddenly found a fixed object for that...
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    seizure vs. stroke

    What meds was he on? I have had 4 patients in the last year now with with either new onset seizure activity or Stroke presentations (one everyone was so certain it was a stroke the tPA was coming from the pharmacy when the CT came back clear) that have have been attributed to Ultram/Tramadol...
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    No Transport = No Fee?

    We charge for refusals on first party calls only. I believe our fee is around $150.
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    Grand Inquisition

    poor and have love, definantly
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    Flight Medic

    It really does depend on the state, region, service, and medical direction. As a Ground Medic, not flight or CC, based on my protocols I can also do the following: RSI Surgical Crich Thrombolytics Our medical director requires us to attend his airway lecture and then do some training with...
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    Medics what happens when you don't know the treatment

    I've been known to do that. So far my regular partners have been EMT's less time than I have been a Medic, which isn't to long, so I generally call Med Control. My Medical Director also provides us with mulitple contact numbers so we can call him, any time of any day and run it by him is we...
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    Grand Inquisition

    LUNO- Your not playing the game correctly.... We ask you... You answer... Now you have to as someone else.... A 12 in the back of the hand... Wow... You must have strong hands to handle something that big B)
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    You did WHAT??

    Waitress Military School Bus Driver Taxi Driver AR Clerk Personal Assistant Secretary Insurance Claims Processor (or should I say denier) Cook in a nursing home housekeeping in a hospital floor tech in a hospital cashier
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    Don't Eat the Children

    Had an unconscious patient..... possible OD... possible Tramadol reaction.... either way, she was my second of 4 intubations last night.... So we get her to the hospital and start really looking at her medications.... This is what we found.....
  14. MedicPrincess

    Treating a rapist.

    We have a Federal Prison in our county. This houses people who have committed some of the worst crimes you can imagine, and some you never want to imagine. And we run calls out of it. They are a patient. They have a medical problem, address that problem. The hardest ones for me (as well...
  15. MedicPrincess

    My White Cloud

    QueenPrincessPresidentGoddess of the White Cloud Club here. Last shift I called dispatch and begged to be moved to the post where all the calls were coming out of. I got there. The calls moved north. Begged again to move. Got there calls moved west. Other EMT's on my shift actually...
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    Grand Inquisition

    Im going for the ever ellusive LUNO!... and bonus points to the person that tracks him down and gets him here to answer these crazy questions. 1. Are you a morning person or a night person? 2. Which of your "friends" here have you actually met or see regularly? 3. When you put your...
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    Grand Inquisition

    1. Umm... Whats Birch Beer? But pretty much anthing "beer" in BLAH to me... so can I choose Diet Pepsi or Vodka? 2. C.O.P.S.... on a side note, C.O.P.S came and spent a month filming in the county I used to work for. After a month they determined they didn't have enough worthwhile video...
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    Would you have ALS'd this patient?

    I get a lot of teasing from the "old medics" about talking to many people into transport and "showing off" and ALS'ing to many patients.... you know work smarter not harder. The funny thing is, on my shift anyway, some of the ones doing the teasing also will throw in the IV and work up the iffy...
  19. MedicPrincess

    Protocols

    Not for the service I work for now, but he is for the one I just left. I am now under Dr. N.
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    Would you have ALS'd this patient?

    I was wonder what to R/R so long to jump on this. But I am actually impressed at the number of you that would call for ALS, or do it, if your able. I did ALS him. Took 3 text messages enroute with some teasing about talking patients into transport..... new medic.... the usual. Now, what...
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