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I wasn't really complaining.. I just came on this site for advice to get myself going. Not really pitying myself.

To be honest I think its the latter. They're short of drivers.

Well.. they found out

Yeah. I keep telling him I'm not comfortable and he ignores it. Kind of pissing me off. Not trying to put anyone's safety at risk

I'm scheduled to drive tomorrow and I told my supervisor my concern - he tells me "you'll be fine". I don't think he gets how inexperienced I am..

I really need advice and I didn't really know where to ask it but here it goes: Long story short, I lost both of my parents when I was a kid and I was also in a ****ty foster home. Never really had anyone to show me how to drive and I didn't go out of my way to learn how until I was 22 which...

Sorry to bump a thread that's already been answered but wow. I always underestimated Khan Academy but it is a huge source of good info.. Realized how watered down EMT class was.

Thanks for the awesome reply man. I'm just starting my career in EMS but I'm really eager to keep learning. Going to certainly follow your advice and also take advantage of the CE classes my volunteer agency offers for now.

Thank you for the list. Ill check them out. How about any good A & P books?

Any recommendations?

What prompted me to post this is what my course instructor said in one of the last classes. She said something along the lines of "don't pre-study for medic school because 2 years of your life will be consumed by it. Master the EMT level first." Also said something about how you could screw up...

I was looking at a few: BRS Physiology Grey's Anatomy Atlas of Human Anatomy To me, the information seemed way too in depth at my level of training. I know there's no such thing as too much knowledge.

Yeah my EMT textbook has a chapter with the basis of ALS... There's really nothing of medications in the chapter though. Just how to intubate and give IVs. Maybe buying the medic textbook is overkill. I'm sure when I get hired it'll come together more.. right now I just volley on a BLS truck.

I've just recently been certified as an EMT. Just recently the thought of reading the medic textbook my school uses for their program crossed my mind. I wont be attending the program any time soon. I was just thinking of studying it out of interest. Will reading it interfere at all with me...