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    I made the news!!!!

    even if they didnt really show my face. im standing in front of the monitor, right next to the CPR seat. I was also driving when responding to this call. http://www.wfaa.com/video/index.html?nvid=267712
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    Quit smoking ideas

    I just kind of thought about this and wanted ya'lls input. ive smoked since i was 18, and have tried to quit over the years with no success. i was kind of thinking about starting something at the ambulance company i work at. i know there are alot of smokers where i work and i figured if we all...
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    Wierd week, and another question.

    Had one of those weeks. Monday with my regular partner, we meet up with another unit for a few minuites of down time at post. we are at a park, a place they picked out, so im not sure of my exact location. we chat with them for a while. they catch a call and leave, we go back to our unit and...
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    Bipolar Disoder questions.

    Ive looked on the net for info on this, and nowhere does it say that bipolar disorder is genetic. any ideas? im almost certain that it has to be. what do yall think, yes or no?
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    Off duty??

    I went out to a bar the other night with a few friends from work. we got to talking, what if someone went down in the bar. two of us were medics, and the other two EMT's. the other medic there was under the impression that we were to NOT HELP at all, because we had been drinking. question is...
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    Emergency

    I found myself feeling like i needed to spend some money. i dont know why, im still trying to sustain life on an EMS salary. but i went out to Virgin Megastore (a cd and dvd store here in Dallas) and was walking the aisles looking for something to spend on. i ran across it, it sorta lured me in...
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    Delayed due to...... UNIFORM DIFFICULTIES??

    You’re not gonna believe this one. It's great. Let’s start from the beginning. My partner and I are having a wonderful start to the day. You know the kind I'm talking about. Nothing is going right, were forgetting everything except our heads. Then this happens. Medic 10 (that’s us) responds to...
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    When your partner feels "sick"

    Last shift, my partner and I got a call to transport a pt from Louisiana to Dallas. It was gonna be a cool txp. We got disregarded, and I'm sorta glad we did. The EMT I was working with wasn’t my regular partner, just a fill in. shortly after we got canceled on the call, we stopped by her...
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    N20

    i spoke with my supervisor about getting N20 on our boxes for pain management. she said i had to write a protocol, i have no idea where to start. any ideas?? anyone know of a site or somewhere i can copy/paste to save time.
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    Work Place Relationships

    I’m guessing that this has already been brought up, but it just recently happened to me. I wanna see what you guys think about this. I started working for a new EMS company about two weeks ago, on my first day I didn’t know that the relationship existed. I found out later that day that one of...
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    Body Armor

    I recently started working for an ambulance company, (non 911) in a really bad part of the city. A place where shooting isn’t really uncommon. I think the work there has given me more experience during medic school than if I was still working in fast food. Some of the patients we txp live in...
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