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It's not a part of any larger study, but I'm looking at it in light of issues like alternative transportation destinations. Granted, not everyone who is admitted needs an ambulance ride, but everyone who is admitted needs to come to the hospital.

I'm currently running a small study looking at whether paramedics can predict hospital admission through my hospital/residency program.

...and I've never been more happy to be traveling for interviews AND on a non-clinical rotation this week. That has to be a fuster cluck for the inpatient teams this week. :D

I didn't realize they just let anyone enroll in special ed. I thought you had to, you know... have problems and the like.

Freezing temperatures? What's those? When I worked in So Cal, most of the ambulances were stored inside the base, but there wasn't enough room so the reserve and some of the front line ambulances were stored outside. Additionally all of the 24 hour units were stored outside because... well...

I was about to post that...

$167 for a leather accessory? I guess it depends on where you're buying it from.

No, I know that... I'm just trying to say that it's not that big of an overkill. Certainly less of an overkill than all of the people asking about jump bags while still in school.

Scope of practice doesn't limit the questions asked or the exam done (for the most part). No one is going to tell an EMT that they were working out of their scope because they heard a pericardial rub. Besides, if he moves past being an EMT, then Bates becomes less overkill.

Is this the EMS version of "Hands up, don't shoot"?

My licensing exam review books are longer than my EMT book, and it doesn't have 1/4th page size pictures of what a handheld radio looks like.

http://www.amazon.com/Bates-Guide-Physical-Examination-History-Taking/dp/1609137620

There's no whining like Fire Department whining.

You want to see underpaid/overworked? Resident physicians.

Norman Regional's unit is only used for CCT calls (I just interviewed there for their new EM residency and we toured the EMS station as well as the hospital).

No, a grand jury determined that nothing wrong had been done by the police.

Just because there are cases of bad kills (local example for me would be the Kelly Thomas murder) doesn't mean that every police killing is a bad kill. Good kills should not go to trial.

No indictment in the Michael Brown case... guess Ferguson, MO is getting a second Brown stain tonight.