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Have you personally encountered a transfer in which a patient hasn't been stabilized within the sending facility's capability and gets sent out for insurance repatriation? It's something we all hypothesize happens, but I've never experienced it.

Someone scraped the mic button in the back of a rig and ended up with some scary stuff. I assume youre thinking of the same thing, post it up if you find it. Fwiw, my mic survived a dunking in Cavicide.

The results of scraping any surface on a rig and culturing it. I feel like several of the above comments could be applied to healthcare in general.

My guess is she wasnt looking for an interp, she probably wanted you to say that there was too much road noise and deviation in the iso line. Lead placement could probably fix that. Nothing better than when someone places leads ON a skinny pts clavicles.

Ignoring how outrageously stupid that whole post is, if you can't dodge a casual wipe, you definitely shouldn't engage in fisticuffs. Also, did you look to see if her Foley was leaking? It very well could have been, and you could have taken 10 seconds to make her more comfortable with a quick...

Do you not work a regular schedule? Sounds like you dont. I'm not sure you have much recourse if you aren't guaranteed hours to begin with. FWIW I'd advise against going into conversations with a supervisor with the goal of getting them to "admit" to things.

Sounds like you just have it out for UCLA man. Youre assuming that the above poster isn't just an pleased former student, and that a very earnest yahoo answers post where someone describes what they are looking for in medic students is somehow an advertisement. That yahoo answers post is one...

Still not shilling in the least..

She was forthright about who she was, and made absolutely zero value judgments about the program. She merely called it competitive. I don't really think that's advertising.

Citation?

While I don't necessarily disagree, the program has no problem filling its spots and likely isn't going to devote its time to shilling on a forum.

"ST elevation in leads x, x, and x" is one of the loudest and most excited phrases you'll hear in radio reports.

You're experiencing a shortage in LA? News to me.. OC and SD are historically saturated, with the problem only getting worse. Work until you break and hope that the educational standards for future EMS workers increase so their skills and knowledge are more portable than lunchmeat and dispatching.

It falls squarely into treating the patient and not the number. The presentation is what matters here. You could have 3 patients of the same weight and age and the same BAC, one singing Ke$ha songs, one throwing up on themselves, and one with the shakes. Would knowing they all had a .08 help...

Baby, I was born a smooth talker.

Around here, paramedics and paramedics only are medics. I know a few emts who call themselves medics, they are tools in many respects, along with being misleading about their education.

IFT with mostly CCT. CCT can be a blast to run, and most of the RNs I've worked with are always happy to drill you with plenty of opportunities for critical thinking.

Inglewood isn't that bad. Lots of history at the Freeman campus and there's a Church's Chicken a stone's throw away.

http://www.10news.com/news/san-diego-911-dispatchers-medical-instructions-questioned-01132015

I've taken BLS twice, PALS and ACLS each once. None of the four instructors did it as their primary jobs. One was a foreign MD waiting for his USMLE, one was a young medic, one was an 18 year old still in high school, and one was a FF. They all just seemed to enjoy teaching and it was subject...