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    Soon to be EMT-b, But an advocate for Medical Mariujana

    It's about as important to me as the opinion of a paramedic intern.:P
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    Soon to be EMT-b, But an advocate for Medical Mariujana

    Dude I could care less whether medicinal marijauna is legalized or not. It's way out of my pay grade and I have other concerns.
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    Soon to be EMT-b, But an advocate for Medical Mariujana

    Show me a thc OD and we can "submit competing anecdotes" from that starting point. I've seen 100s of prescription pill ODs as I'm sure we all have, I've seen alcohol,heroin, meth, coke, etc. ODs. Never seen a thc OD... Sure marijuana tars up the lungs, etc., in that realm it is not...
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    Soon to be EMT-b, But an advocate for Medical Mariujana

    How often does this happen in reality? Everyone knows their are docs who will write script for xanax, etc. at the drop of a hat...Why should we think "medical marijauna" is any diff?
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    Soon to be EMT-b, But an advocate for Medical Mariujana

    That was a turn of phrase - my youth was no more disorderly than any other.
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    Soon to be EMT-b, But an advocate for Medical Mariujana

    Marijuana use is harmless, especially when compared to alcohol or some of the prescription "meds" commonly doled out by neighborhood docs doing their best to keep Big Pharma rolling in the cash. In my misspent youth I consumed marijuana frequently and never had any probs of any sort - but all...
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    Why private industry has no business in EMS

    I've done some VA IFTs and got no extra money for them. Around here the VA employs some EMTs(all levels) to do IFTs and their pay is outstanding. Of course those jobs are very difficult to get.
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    Why private industry has no business in EMS

    I find it kinda funny that you don't realize that 90% plus of private ambulance bills are paid by "the government."
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    Why private industry has no business in EMS

    Did we used to work together? Sounds familiar. I'm convinced - private companies have no buisness running 911 calls.
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    why are ems people so strange?

    I'm about half way through my EMT-I class and it never fails to amuse me the 'EMS garb' worn by most of my fellow students. EMT hats, shirts, pendants, key retainers, etc. This seems to be the rule regardless of the age of the EMT. I don't get it. When I'm not working I don't wear clothes...
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    Video of Texting & Driving crash

    I've been in the back of an ambulance with the driver texting - and it does not fill you with confidence.
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    Video of Texting & Driving crash

    I've been in the back of an ambulance with the driver texting - and it does not fill you with confidence.
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    Interesting questions about "ObamaCare"

    And the insurance companies aren't working too well.
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    Ambulance Strike

    You're correct. It is way past time for EMS to be unionized.
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    1st emt job!

    And then the new hire will realize they HAVE wandered into an asylum and the inmates ARE running the place.
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    36 hour shifts

    I work a 72 hour shift every week - and personally, I think it sucks.
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    9 people account for 2700 ER visits in TX

    AUSTIN, Texas - Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report. The patients went to hospital emergency rooms 2,678 times from 2003 through 2008, said the...
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    woohoo! finally got a ems job!

    For a 911 service in eastern oklahoma. One 72 hour shift per week. Although I rarely post here I do follow the conversations and I have learned much from ya'll. Thanks.
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    Having Trouble Passing NREMT-B - Suggestions?

    As stated the Mosby materials seem to be the best. Go back and read your class textbook cover to cover. Schedule an hour each day, 9-10pm or whatever that you will sit down and study with no distractions allowed. Good luck.
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