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I meant strong and regular

haha! disgusting. man, this guy's nails are like wolverine's. It's gross especially when he touches babies without gloves feeling a brachial pulse. I just try not to look at the parents who probably freak out at the ghastly sight. i bought him clippers at the 99cent store coz they were 50 cents...

Yes I do like getting paid. The great thing with being an EMT-B here in LA County is I get paid by the hour. I am not involved with profit sharing, nor is my paycheck dependent on my PCRs getting a successful reimbursement on a call. I go about documenting honest assessments, and so far, my...

oh and another partner who wrote DM on the patient's Hx because the patient's nurse told him that the patient has Dementia.

I understand you Monkey Squasher. I have this once a week partner who seems to have an itch to use our lights and sirens. We pull out of our base at the beginning of shift to got to post, and he hits the lights just to merge with a pile of cars stopped for a red light. It's embarrassing because...

thanks for the reply Jon. Well, I am beginning to accept that S/R is for strong and irregular. I just feel uncomfortable when some of my co-workers think it's "sinus rhythm". I think the best approach to this one is to just stop doing it. Instead, document on the narrative if the pt's pulse...

good one sasha! thank you for your input

thanks monekysquasher! you're a true gentleman

You're right from the very beginning... you don't understand me correctly. Sir, when I said murmurs, it's the abnormal swooshing sound heard via auscultation. Stenosis and regurgitation are very different physiological processes but they both produce characteristic murmurs. As for describing...

Thank you for the reply. However, after two years working in this company, I never got a PCR come back to me because we weren't able to bill from my documentation. The key is accurate and complete assessments. They cover all bases when it comes to determination of ambulance necessity. And I do...

OMG. Thank God! Finally! someone really understands me! Thanks to you sir! I've been trying to get my msg across for the last 3 hours now. Man, someone actually told me that the first SVT was diagnosed sometime around the 1600s. I quickly imagined a bearded man from The Medici with an...

Thanks for the reply! Sir, we (EMT-Bs) are actually authorized to auscultate heart sounds because sometimes the patient circles the drain and next thing you know the patient has no peripheral pulses. Or the patient has no palpable pulses because of the patient's condition (i.e. amputee...

Thanks for the reply. I know what you're saying about companies with contracts. We do have such arrangements with some facilities. I dont really have a problem with that. I go to where dispatch wants me to go. But for the company to impose on EMTs to explicitly state why the patient needs...

THE DUMBING OF NEW RECRUITS AND SPONTANEOUS INVENTION OF ABBREVIATIONS ok. this is the situation. i've been working 2 years in this company and i've had no problem at all with my PCRs. Recently, I noticed that the new recruits have been doing things that I haven't been doing. The funny thing...