Recent content by krusevitche

Yes your gist is correct, I am currently in an EMT course. The course which will be offered in the summer is a more intense (their wording not mine) course and I felt it would behove me to learn all I can before facing a dire emergency. I feel it is a tremendous responsibility to have a life in...

Thanks so much for responding to this thread. I guess I will try to scrounge up the money to take that other course. What matters to me most is patient care and I want to be confident in my ability. Just needed to think it over is all..........

Good Morning, Just wondering how much does your training help when you are a new EMT, have any of you had doubts regarding your training? Did you learn as you became more experienced? I mean of course you did, but I don't think I am getting what I expected in my training course and I worry...

Well, it took the police about 45 minutes to convince her to get in the ambulance, she was highly agitated in a psychotic state and the driver must have been concerned for his partner and myself. She was a section 12. It was difficult to get her in the ER as well as she was attempting to flee...

Thank you, you are a very kind and decent person. Thank you so much and I will take your advice to heart

yeah I was hostile, sorry. It just bugged me the way the nurses treated that guy. I know that they are over-worked my best friend is an RN, but the guy was dying and it astounds me that some people lack even a tiny bit of compassion. I'll just live by my own values and try to accept this world...

And one more thing, where do you think in your great wisdom should the undesirables go? Is there some special hole in the ground for all those who don't meet the expectations of you and the others in the healthcare system who seem to know who deserves treatment and those who do not?? Some day...

Well my eyes will never be open to cruelty to a member of the human race, and if you think that is medicine then you are sadly mistaken. I pity anyone who uses their medical experience to demean a person. Thanks for enlightening me, I will continue to treat every person with dignity, God Bless you

Hey Everyone, Thanks so much for the invaluable advice you gave me for my first ride. I loved it!!!! The EMT's and medics were all awesome and I worried for nuttin! I was sent to a tough city north of Boston (where I was born and raised) and one of our calls was to a homeless shelter. The poor...

Thanks so much, I hope there is someone like you there. I will remember your advice and try as hard as I can!

OK I had planned on taking that line of action, that makes me feel so much better because I am not the dead fish type anyway. Thank you!!!!!

Hi, Just want to say thanks to all who took the time to reply to my earlier post. I really appreciated it!!! But now I have something else gnawing at my brain. I'm going as a third rider Friday and don't know if I should lay low and stay out of the EMT's way or try to do what I can (which...

Thanks, I will and good luck!!

Thanks so much, I guess I will postpone that facelift ( ha-ha)

Hi, I am in a basic EMT training course and hopefully will pass all exams and so forth in May. I am 45 and I am feeling stressed out because of the old coot factor. I know I will be an excellent EMT as I have a bit of medical experience and have been exposed to trauma, stress, jerky healthcare...