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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Civilian EMS?.
    @CCCSD your posts are the epitome of “my opinion is the only one that matters” and “I need to be the ‘smartest guy in the room’”...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Civilian EMS?.
    Aw. Neat. I’m past the age and experience level to make it past the very first and very last sentence of your post. The rest of it is...
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    FiremanMike reacted to VentMonkey's post in the thread Civilian EMS? with Like Like.
    Haha, we’re good bro. The handful of medics I learned the most from worked different systems. Some fire-based (LACOFD fire-based) with...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Civilian EMS?.
    I was admittedly flippant with my post and I apologize. Theres something to be said about building confidence and skill by knowing the...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Electives.
    Totally agree. Take the electives that sound interesting. I ended up with essentially a minor in social psychology just because the...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Civilian EMS?.
    That’s an absurdly inane statement. A good medic is better than a bad EMT. A good LPN is better than a bad RN. A good doctor is better...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Civilian EMS?.
    Conversely there’s no fact-based evidence that less is better. I’ve worked both ways. The ability to have multiple brains in the room...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Civilian EMS?.
    Are you intentionally misreading my post so that you can go on one of your silly condescending rants? Since you went there, I worked...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Civilian EMS?.
    One can make cases that firemen don’t make good medics, but you’re literally the first person I’ve seen advocating for private ems to...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Civilian EMS?.
    Man I thought you guys would be thrilled that dedicated single role medics would be running the squad instead of stupid firemen...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Here comes the Future of AI health care.
    It’s all fun and games until Arnold Schwarzenegger shows up with a sawed off shotgun..
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Here comes the Future of AI health care.
    Nor can they mimic intrinsic bias, confirmation bias, “set in their ways” treatment methodology, emotional burnout, provider fatigue…...
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    FiremanMike reacted to mgr22's post in the thread Questions about CPR with Like Like.
    Isuprel, bicarb, and epi are medications that, at times, have been thought to improve the chances of surviving cardiac arrests, usually...
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    FiremanMike reacted to mgr22's post in the thread Questions about CPR with Like Like.
    Same here: one prehospital vfib patient alert after early CPR and defib x2. I didn't get ROSC until I started inserting an OPA, which...
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    FiremanMike replied to the thread Questions about CPR.
    The last time I researched it, meta analysis revealed that once your heart stops, you have about an 11% chance of surviving but only...
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