Recent content by loadngo

It's about as important to me as the opinion of a paramedic intern.:P

Dude I could care less whether medicinal marijauna is legalized or not. It's way out of my pay grade and I have other concerns.

Show me a thc OD and we can "submit competing anecdotes" from that starting point. I've seen 100s of prescription pill ODs as I'm sure we all have, I've seen alcohol,heroin, meth, coke, etc. ODs. Never seen a thc OD... Sure marijuana tars up the lungs, etc., in that realm it is not...

How often does this happen in reality? Everyone knows their are docs who will write script for xanax, etc. at the drop of a hat...Why should we think "medical marijauna" is any diff?

That was a turn of phrase - my youth was no more disorderly than any other.

Yeah, did you?

Marijuana use is harmless, especially when compared to alcohol or some of the prescription "meds" commonly doled out by neighborhood docs doing their best to keep Big Pharma rolling in the cash. In my misspent youth I consumed marijuana frequently and never had any probs of any sort - but all...

I've done some VA IFTs and got no extra money for them. Around here the VA employs some EMTs(all levels) to do IFTs and their pay is outstanding. Of course those jobs are very difficult to get.

I find it kinda funny that you don't realize that 90% plus of private ambulance bills are paid by "the government."

Did we used to work together? Sounds familiar. I'm convinced - private companies have no buisness running 911 calls.

I'm about half way through my EMT-I class and it never fails to amuse me the 'EMS garb' worn by most of my fellow students. EMT hats, shirts, pendants, key retainers, etc. This seems to be the rule regardless of the age of the EMT. I don't get it. When I'm not working I don't wear clothes...

I've been in the back of an ambulance with the driver texting - and it does not fill you with confidence.

I've been in the back of an ambulance with the driver texting - and it does not fill you with confidence.

And the insurance companies aren't working too well.

You're correct. It is way past time for EMS to be unionized.