Recent content by hippocratical

Good to know, thanks! I thought so, as you could push a perfectly hydrated person dressed in a sealed HAZMAT suit into an oven, and they get heat stroke because their body simply cant deal with the heat, rather than an electrolyte/volemia issue. Wouldn't want to be that guy...

So... The following is correct then? Basically that is... I'd like to know.

Well that will take literally days till you reach that! :P Ha, just making fun, I'm on that train too. Before people weigh in with specifics, be aware that you don't have to get your class 4 first. I personally got my EMR first, as working on an ambulance (thus needing a class 4) rather...

Two words: Incriminating photos. Of your future employer that is - not you!

You guys are way more senior/experienced than me, but my understanding was that: Heat exhaustion: Symptoms caused primarily by dehydration and hypovolemia due to excessive sweating Heat Stroke: If your body is unable to cool you below an internal temp of 41C then your enzymes start denaturing...

I believe it's not so much where you are standing, but them. If the person is standing on public ground they're fair game, if they're standing in their house not so much. Staring into someone's house is covered under "Peeping Tom" style laws. I'm not picking on Mycroft here, but on a similar...

MSF usually go to war zones though, or seriously damaged places that are like war zones (Haiti for example). The ones I met in Zambia were there on vacation! This is not 5-star hotels you understand - it was a shanty town in literally in the middle of nowhere. I just happened to be working...

I'll second this. I've met these MSF cats in a variety of remote places (Zambia and Laos to name two) and they are the most intelligent, calm, professional bad-***-mothers I've met. Nothing fazed them, and they were the personification of the "Wait - I got this" aura. Kinda like the special...

Stupid IMDB hosting...

I raise you - this guy:

Some people are easily offended. Those people offend me ^_^

Put me down as another person who thinks the photos are fine. No really - how on earth do I click the Poll?! :wacko: On another similar inflammatory photographic note: I'm all for Police wearing always-on head video cameras. That would instantly solve 99% of harassment charges right there -...

I have always loved medical shows; early seasons of House being my favourite. That said, it wasn't TV that made me want to be in EMS. Enjoying Medical TV shows /= wanting to be in EMS. Being fascinated by medicine and emergent care = wanting to be in EMS. I guess I can thank medical TV shows...

Yeah, but who would X-ray a corpse? I'm guessing an incredibly lucky person who is somehow alive. Wouldn't like to be them though...

I hear that often from lay people I speak to here in Calgary. "EMT, what like a Paramedic?" Really though, does nomenclature really have this effect? It would be nice if the public knew about the training levels within EMS, but realistically their primary experience with EMS may be along the...