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Hi Anjel1030, I'm happy my book is making you laugh! That's why I wrote it. Thank you for the word of mouth recommendations. It means a lot to me when I can make a medic choke and cry and lose their mind! That's what I'm talkin about! Let me know how the rest of it goes. Mike Cyra

How many psychiatrists does it take to do CPR? Would you like to tell us how you feel about not having a punch line yet? When did you first realize that you didn't have a punch line? How did you feel then?

Great compressions dude! I broke up a cpr in progress / assault while covering the Honolulu Marathon years ago. A runner had gone down on his knees and was holding his chest so two good sams pounced on him. We rolled up a few minutes into it. Spit flying all over as the guy at the head tried...

Have you driven an ambulance before? (this is a true story / excerpt from my book) My partner and I had been running emergency calls back to back for the previous twelve hours. We had just dropped our last patient off at the Emergency Room and knew there was more calls pending. I still had...

Congratulations!! Enjoy the ride and the vast amount of skills and knowledge in your future! Mike

I had a similar call while covering a marathon. A couple of guys started two-man cpr on a runner who fell. strangest damn thing to see.

color blindness I'm color blind and worked in EMS and surgery for 20 years without any issues. The only time I was told I couldn't do something was filling in at a dispatch center with a color coded computer program. Oh and nobody lets me paint their house anymore... You should know the...

Hi, My name is Mike. Became EMT in 1980, worked in Washington & Hawaii. EMS put me thru Surgical Tech school. 8yrs as Chief Medical Officer on largest mother ship (680ft) in US, fishing Alaska's Bering Sea & Pacific Ocean. 7yrs instructing maritime emergency medicine & BLS thru ARC. Many years...

There are no dumb questions when you're learning...and that will never end.