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Wow, I totally didn't mean to stir up such a debate! Sorry! Grandma says that she knows there are people in every profession that are good and bad. We once called a plumber for the basement pipes and the guy who replaced the busted pipe used the wrong diameter (too small) and this made the...

Grandma went to a Nurses Practitioner who nearly killed her. I just wasn't impressed with the Np as she seemed uncertain and unskilled. The Np wrote a prescription for twice the lethal dose of a muscle relaxant. The pharmacist refused to fill it and called the Np to explain. A few months later...

I stopped at an accident with two entrapments and severe injuries that I chanced upon while driving in my small town in my rural area. Bystanders were already dialing 911 to report it. About a minute into helping one of the patients my pager went off summoning my FD to the scene. I guess you can...

This is a very appropriate treatment to boost his mortuary business.

Our medical director (who is the local mortician and is highly educated with an Associates Degree in Mortuary Studies) just isn't that progressive. We asked him if we could do neurosurgery by taking the 30 minute ConEd course but he said "no". Can you believe that?

Oh totally we do. We're also just certified as Medical First Responders, not EMTs. We also do C-Sections in the ambulance.

Do we know her blood type? If not then see if anyone nearby by an O- and get them to start a STAT transfusion. The ER can wait.

We did but there was no landing zone for 10 miles.

Not in CT. Where I lived in Montana a few years back.

That's the thing, we are an all-volunteer department with fewer than 200 calls a year. Paying for ALS intercept isn't possible. We barely have enough money to keep diesel in the ambulance so paying for a medic can't happen. In addition there is no ALS service for just over 50 miles so even if we...

Had a PT who was trapped in a vehicle from a head on collision. She was screaming in horrible pain due to her legs being crushed and the wreckage from the car pinning them. We're BLS and couldn't do anything for the pain during the 1hr it took for the FD to cut her out. Even after we got her on...

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Your reply is far more tactful and less head-bitey, which I appreciate. Would sure be nice if others followed your lead. But yes he did bite my head off. Grandma just glued it back on.

Gosh, sir, maybe you didn't see where Chimpie asked me what I didn't like and what was wrong with it. I was just responding to Chimpie. No need to bite my head off. Gosh.

Light blue lettering on a white background is an awful design choice.

Light blue lettering on a white background=BAD DESIGN

Ouch, the new look is really harsh in my eyes. It looks like candyland. Is there a way to roll it back?

Collar yes, board no. Boards are only for moving a patient, not for transport.

As I understand it (gramma told me this once) there are two ways that you're allowed to start advanced interventions on a patient: if you're an AEMT or paramedic and part of a legally operating EMS service with a medical director and protocols -or- you're a doctor with a valid medical license...