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The best preceptor I had was the one I could tell actually cared about the outcome of my preception. He took the time during checkout to walk me through everything without shortcuts, broke open saline and IV start kits, cannulas, capnography, etc etc etc and showed me how to set them up... the...

Perhaps that's what you do. I follow my protocol when deciding whether or not to begin resuscitation. No diagnosis necessary.

I've never really understood this obsession some folks in EMS have with "being prepared" for getting attacked. To be fair I don't ride in Compton or downtown Detroit but I've only had one combative patient and the two of us in the back were able to easily soft-restrain them for the ride to the...

You have to call a doc on every refusal? When do they find time for medicine?

I almost never wear a watch outside of work but we're required to wear one on-duty so I do. I don't mostly use it for vitals though... I usually find myself looking at it for the time on the vitals or treatments. Me and the tablet don't function on the same wavelength and it always seems to...

Surely you realize the legality of pronouncing someone dead vs. deciding they aren't coming back? Or maybe EMS is done different one state to the south.

You really took my few words and ran with them. I don't think you believe that I, as an EMT, can provide the years of treatment, counseling and careful observation that many of my psych patients require.

Not legally, but if you google "watch sirens uk" you should be able to come up with something

I'm sure I'm not the first to say it, but the best psych call is the one you get disregarded from. Psych patients need as much help as trauma patients, we're just not the ones who can provide it.

On duty? Gloves if I haven't put them on already. Cell phone. Wallet. I have an ID and fob attached to a belt loop. You guys ride on ambulances, right? Why load up your pockets full of gear?

Are you sure? The logical next step would be if you get called for a headache but your patient refuses transport or care because it's just a headache but then goes unconscious because it's really something much, much worse... you aren't going to treat them? Same condition causing progressively...

Nah, Kennet got it at the community college. You're thinking of Keit.

In Virginia, POA, living wills, etc. are fantastic if you want to make your patient's family happy. Follow that stuff right up until it conflicts with patient care or the actual patient's desire. Because in this state it's completely meaningless. Unless the patient or their family can produce a...

If you are indeed in Virginia, as it seems you are, texting while driving is against the law. I don't doubt your agency has a prohibition against it as well that goes above and beyond VA's labeling it a secondary offense. It would be absurd for us as health care providers to apply our skills to...

"That's what they pay us for" = we're all volunteers...

I'll tell you how you beat him at his own game: try and palpate along the femur

Local news always uses headlines in the vein of Upworthy.com - sensational and not really reflective of the contents of the story, a la "The One Secret This Woman Used to Lose 50 Lbs. in 50 Days Without Diet OR Exercise!" or when the newscaster at 6 begs you to stick around until after the...

I feel like you shouldn't have to let folks know this is satire...