Recent content by Medic744

After working my booty off for 2 weeks at my new IFT company I got the 24 spot I wanted. That is a good thing. Bad thing is tomorrow is my son's 1st birthday party and my mother has been in town since I started the job and despite spending my first productive day off not catching up on sleep...

I can give you the names of a few great services to volley for but need to know what side of town you are on. Field experience can only help before and during school, it gives you something to relate to while learning. Especially if you get a partner that is willing and able to teach and...

Try some people just shouldnt be in patient care or work with other people. My female partners and other male partners and I worked so well together that we regularly got crew of the month awards. Oh and off those 4 only one still works there.

At the IFT company I worked for I had 4 partners (all male) that brought a whole new meaning to tying to be an Alpha dog. 1. Rough with a coma pt and while I was still nice and explaining things and gentle he yelled at me and once the call was over proceeded to tear me a new one because I was...

Looking forward to the call from our Director that is sure to come tomorrow after he receives the irrate voicemail left for him over the weekend. Has nothing to actually do with us, just dispatch, but Im pretty sure that all of their screw ups are going to lead to me filing a report so we are...

I will be glad when we are in our new station where the common room wont be on the other side of a very thin wall and my bed.

I learned several valuable lessons today. 1. Protocols are only good with common sense and basic knowledge, if not combined it gets you suspended (not me!) 2. The size of your pt will be in direct proportion to how small their vehicle is. 3. Dispatch will screw up when the majority of...

Well if there is ever a time and place for someone to get in a MVC it would be at shift change right in front of the police station during my lunch. At least on the upside we managed to get the pt on the hospital stretcher before she peed everywhere.

I have actually transported a young child with sickle cell and had a few during my pedi rotations and the pulse ox on the truck and in the hospital were both altered. In each situation the child received supplimental O2 and were watched for resp distress signs and symptoms.

Am so super happy to have dental insurance again! Now I can go get that root canal I have been putting off for 2 yrs, oh yeah and a few cavities filled. Luckily no wisdom teeth pulled, that happened a long time ago. But yippee for the root canal!!!

Thank you. Had new hire training scheduled before I walked out of the place. They wanted me to stay and do it the same day but I had other plans for last night.

I dont but there might be someone who is. Trust me I cant gain weight to save my life. The only 2 times I weighed more than 110 was when I worked across the street from a Sonic and when I was pregnant. :P^_^:rolleyes:

For the people who suggest that we gain weight, purposely look ugly, dumb it down, or stop being who we are, I really hope those arent serious suggestions. We have 3 women at our station (all paramedics) and the surrounding areas have a few more but I refuse to change my appearance or...

Interview in the am with a local IFT company. They are pretty solid but lets see if they make an actual offer close to what I was told I would get. If they do then it will make a great "in the mean time" until I go back to school, if not then they can kiss it.

It happens alot more than you think. All you can do is your job to the best of your abilities. I have pretty much the same situation here (other than being called to the office) but I hold my own with the guys and the patients. There are a few wives who distrusted me at first but since...