the 100% directionless thread

[redundantbassist]

Has anyone else had trouble with keeping their eyeglasses on their face during chest compressions? Mine like to bounce down my nose.

Not as annoying as accidentally leaving your steth around your neck during compressions...

 

[Jim37F]

Just finished new hire orientation today. We were assigned our FTOs earlier, and will be working their next assigned shift, so if you were assigned an FTO who is on tomorrow, you're coming back in to work tomorrow, somehow I got assigned an FTO who's next shift (and therefore mine) isn't for another 5 days. So I got a whole week to kill lol

 

[NomadicMedic]

Yeah. A Couple of hose monkeys will fix that.

Fixed that for ya.

 

[CALEMT]

2 week vacation is over.

 

[Akulahawk]

Yeah. A LUCAS will fix that.

Yes. He can figure out just how to do that...

 

[chaz90]

I cringe a little bit when my partner tells a 40 year old with obviously musculoskeletal back and chest pain that he "strongly recommends" transport to the ED via ambulance since "he might die." The guy tried to do the right thing and ask if he could follow up with his PCP instead! Those kind of fear based tactics to convince patients to agree to transport should have been left behind in the 90s.

 

[Carlos Danger]

I cringe a little bit when my partner tells a 40 year old with obviously musculoskeletal back and chest pain that he "strongly recommends" transport to the ED via ambulance since "he might die." The guy tried to do the right thing and ask if he could follow up with his PCP instead! Those kind of fear based tactics to convince patients to agree to transport should have been left behind in the 90s.

Well I don't know about you, but I don't have a CT scanner in my ambulance......

 

[irishboxer384]

Well I don't know about you, but I don't have a CT scanner in my ambulance......

I see your point also but saying the words to a patient 'you might die' surely you don't agree with?

 

[chaz90]

Well I don't know about you, but I don't have a CT scanner in my ambulance......

I left my x-ray goggles at home too. I'm not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

 

[Carlos Danger]

I left my x-ray goggles at home too. I'm not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

That's right - we can't diagnose, anyway.

 

[Jim37F]

I am becoming more and more convinced that Tower Week from the US Army Airborne School needs to be added to civilian driver license courses so when people see the green light they actually let off the brake and drive through it (after being conditioned that hesitating longer than a second or two gets an irate Jumpmaster's boot up your 4th point of contact) rather than this 10 sec per car wait to lift of the brake when the guy in front of you starts driving away, that's how you end up with only 3 or 4 cars making it through the green and leaving people like me who REALLY need to take a $!t sitting and waiting on every friggin light

 

[CALEMT]

I am becoming more and more convinced that Tower Week from the US Army Airborne School needs to be added to civilian driver license courses so when people see the green light they actually let off the brake and drive through it (after being conditioned that hesitating longer than a second or two gets an irate Jumpmaster's boot up your 4th point of contact) rather than this 10 sec per car wait to lift of the brake when the guy in front of you starts driving away, that's how you end up with only 3 or 4 cars making it through the green and leaving people like me who REALLY need to take a $!t sitting and waiting on every friggin light

So you're the dude that keeps honking at me

 

[Jim37F]

So you're the dude that keeps honking at me

Only if you were the guy fiddling around with something in his center console (maybe front passenger seat) like 5 seconds after the light changed whilst being the first vehicle in line at the intersection Or the guy who was driving down the exit only lane on the freeway then stopping in said lane to try to merge back onto the standing still freeway at the last second lol Though the one that really takes the cake is the person looking to turn left out of the side street onto the main road I was on, looking at traffic coming from that direction but not at me when he pulled out in front of me forcing me (and the guy in the other lane btw) to slam our brakes to avoid a t-bone collision.........Yikes I used my horn today more than I've probably used it all last year I swear I normally just mutter under my breath!

 

[CALEMT]

Only if you were the guy fiddling around with something in his center console (maybe front passenger seat) like 5 seconds after the light changed whilst being the first vehicle in line at the intersection Or the guy who was driving down the exit only lane on the freeway then stopping in said lane to try to merge back onto the standing still freeway at the last second lol Though the one that really takes the cake is the person looking to turn left out of the side street onto the main road I was on, looking at traffic coming from that direction but not at me when he pulled out in front of me forcing me (and the guy in the other lane btw) to slam our brakes to avoid a t-bone collision.........Yikes I used my horn today more than I've probably used it all last year I swear I normally just mutter under my breath!

Work one day with me while driving code 3 and I'll expand your vocabulary tremendously.

 

[StCEMT]

Work one day with me while driving code 3 and I'll expand your vocabulary tremendously.

Challenge accepted. I've got a decent vocabulary, but I am willing to learn some left coast stuff.
Good times will be had.

 

[TransportJockey]

Sinus infection makes me want to clean out my sinuses with a rusty spoon... it might hurt less.

 

[CANMAN]

Sinus infection makes me want to clean out my sinuses with a rusty spoon... it might hurt less.

I feel your pain, literally, and raise you a nasty case of strep throat Been down and out for three days....

 

[MrJones]

I am becoming more and more convinced that Tower Week from the US Army Airborne School needs to be added to civilian driver license courses so when people see the green light they actually let off the brake and drive through it (after being conditioned that hesitating longer than a second or two gets an irate Jumpmaster's boot up your 4th point of contact) rather than this 10 sec per car wait to lift of the brake when the guy in front of you starts driving away, that's how you end up with only 3 or 4 cars making it through the green and leaving people like me who REALLY need to take a $!t sitting and waiting on every friggin light

Tower week. Meh. Avoided that particular goat rope thanks to high winds. Didn't hurt my feelings in the least.

 

[Jim37F]

Tower week. Meh. Avoided that particular goat rope thanks to high winds. Didn't hurt my feelings in the least.

Ground Week, where the men are separated from the boys, Tower Week, where the fools are separated from the men, Jump Week, us fools jump out of perfectly good airplanes

(Though I still counter that since it's Air Force aircraft they aren't "perfectly good" especially after I've personally witnessed an AF bird crash whilst attempting to land! lol)

 

[Seirende]

My car has a slow leak in its brake line. Drove a few miles too far before adding fluid this time, so now I'm stuck at a gas station waiting for my brother to bring wrenches so that we can bleed the line. On one of the coldest days of the year.