Recent content by FiremanMike

@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’”. Hopefully you allow yourself to be humbled at some point before you kill someone with your arrogant pride. Based on your self reported tenure in this business, I’d...

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 pure fluff.

I was admittedly flippant with my post and I apologize. Theres something to be said about building confidence and skill by knowing the buck absolutely stops with you. That said, the longer I do this job, the more I realize I’m not as smart as I think I am. I do occasionally miss things or...

Totally agree. Take the electives that sound interesting. I ended up with essentially a minor in social psychology just because the classes sounded good (and they were).

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 than a bad NP. A good dental hygienist is better than a bad dentist. You can take that argument and plug anything into x and y and it will always be true. I...

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 is a superior experience for me.

Are you intentionally misreading my post so that you can go on one of your silly condescending rants? Since you went there, I worked for over two decades in a metro area where everyone on scene was a paramedic, now I work at a smaller agency where medics are in short supply. One of these...

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 take over municipal 911. It is so extraordinarily rare that companies make it work that it’s laughable to suggest otherwise. Private companies need to make...

Man I thought you guys would be thrilled that dedicated single role medics would be running the squad instead of stupid firemen. Y’all should really look into the source of your irrational hatred of anything associated with the fire department.

It’s all fun and games until Arnold Schwarzenegger shows up with a sawed off shotgun..

Nor can they mimic intrinsic bias, confirmation bias, “set in their ways” treatment methodology, emotional burnout, provider fatigue… shall I go on?

The last time I researched it, meta analysis revealed that once your heart stops, you have about an 11% chance of surviving but only about a 7% chance of having a normal mental status. I’ve been on a few that have survived with normal mental status and one patient who we successfully...

That’s very easy to say but extremely unrealistic. Real patient movement at 0300 in a cramped back bathroom of a hoarder house allows for virtually zero correct ergonomics.

No, we have a piece of equipment that does it for us. Also laypeople are generally taught hands-only cpr now..

It’s been probably 20 years now, but I’ll never forget the dude in the back of a cop car tell me “man, I think I’m about to have a seizure!” - proceeds to flop around for a few seconds, then wakes completely up and says “did you see my seizure??” Some days I miss the circus of inner city fire/ems..