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That last line is the best damn answer I've seen in this thread yet, lol. ;D

You know before I thought people who did cocaine were stupid because of what it does to you. Now I think they're ****ing idiots for doing cocaine after seeing what chemicals are used to make it. Sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid isn't even the most outlandish part since soda has phosphoric...

You know, the interesting thing is I'm currently an EMT-B student yet I find myself agreeing that EMTs are poorly trained. Why? Well, every topic we cover in class such as respiratory problems, soft tissue injuries, etc. take up a whole whopping 30-page chapter. I'm sure some training is better...

*cracks up* :P

Rofl...oh man this one's great. I'm going to have to do this when I'm no longer a newbie.

Well, for lack of better words, I don't think I'm going to get a more complete answer than that. :P So far from what I've learned, honestly I think a few classes such as English 1A, algebra, and A&P should be required for even EMT-Bs to weed out the illiterate people and/or the ones who only...

Congrats!! Sorry about the arm though...hope ya have a speedy recovery.:D

Yeah, and I find it ironic that half the stuff the textbook teaches you can't even use, such as assisting with administration of medications (outside glucose and oxygen), intubation, etc. I agree with not wanting to have inexperienced EMT-Bs with insufficient training doing complex stuff such...

I'm left in the dark as to what kind of feuds are going on but the reason material that is dumbed down is hard to understand to people who have a few brain cells is because we tend to assume things are never easy so we tend to overcomplicate it if it appears too simplistic. We shouldn't be...

Not much to my story...I've known my best friend for about 9 or 10 years and he's been in health care ever since I've known him, went to college for CNA when he was 14 and he's been an EMT for about 4 years before going to medic school. When I first started going to college for pre-med he...

Yeah I'm with FM and Guardian on this one...HR people virtually have no usefulness to a company whatsoever. When I did work at Blue Shield and I needed HR for something, guess what? Yup, they were never in their office. I don't know what they do all day (besides harassing employees apparently)...

Ex-friend...but yeah more or less. I won't make accusations because I'll never know for sure but one of the ways you check to see how much carbon dioxide is left in the BB gun (well for gas-operated ones anyhow) is by shooting some air into your hand. Now, while that may sound idiotic or counter...

Hey guys, figured I'd drop in and give an update...well, the reason I didn't wait to go to my PCP is because I started to lose feeling in my hand and I haven't learned nearly enough about medicine to be making judgements on my health so wasn't about to assume that it wasn't anything to be...

Well, I learned tonight why becoming an ER doc is probably not something I ever want to pursue if I want to actually help people (warning, I'm aware this is a generalization and there are exceptions, as with everything)....alright so for reasons I won't go into, there's a BB in my hand. Started...

I don't want to be the materialistic weasel of the group, and I'm not taking sides since both fire and Rid have good points, but considering how many times a friend of mine or someone I know has been pulled over for going 5 miles an hour over the limit, honestly how can anyone justify that the...

Agreed. It's unfortunate that people can't see how one-sided the article obviously is and that the writer is clearly on an agenda but what can you do?

Happens to the best of us. ;) always a good topic anyways!

Ahhh ok, just curious...gotta try to keep my ears open. :) thanks!

Hey Rid, just out of curiosity but where would math come into play outside basic math in order to calculate medication doses?

Talk about resurrecting an old thread, lol. Thanks for the input though! I figured consistency was better than anything else so I kind of just work out whenever. Some days I go in the morning, some at night, it just depends. I've been working out for about a week and a half so far, just doing...