Recent content by MedicObserver

I have no family left. I left home in February because I never got along with my parents at all. I got sick of the screaming matches and walked out with the clothes on my back and a trash bag full of clothes and deodorant and things like that. So, right now I'm living with my sister and working...

I apologize to all users of this forum who were involved with the deal over in the "Ambulance Driver's License" thread. I let my big mouth get me tangled up in a huge mess the other day and I want to fix it. All I ask is a second chance. I probably don't deserve it but I think this time I...

Can we just drop the whole thing and get back to waht the forum is about: members of the EMS family getting together to just chat or share info or do whatever they feel what would better connect them with their fellow responders? Instead of arguing and bashing each other?!

My intentions do not include any superiority or that "I know it all" attitude. I never meant anything like that. What I am getting at is that everyone always makes the assumption that I don't know what I'm getting into and that I won't make it bacause I don't know what EMS is about. And that's...

By the way I have driven a rig. It was like a week after I got my learner's permit for Driver's ED. I got to drive a Type I TraumaHawk (I love that word; it just sounds like a rock song or something) down to the car-wash and scrub it from top to bottom. Then I got to drive the RapidResponse...

It's just slang we use on the radio. It's easier to say "bus" than it is "ambulance" Idk who started it, but it was around before I got involved with EMS. I thought it was weird too but I figured that the ParaGods had been around for awhile and that they knew what they were talking about.

Yes, I have been involved in EMS since I was 13. My very first experience was when my assistant football coach got his NREMT-P certification and invited us all down to the Paramedic bay to see the new buses we had just gotten. I always looked up to him; he was almost like another brother. I then...

WHOA!!! FOR ONE THING, I HAVE THE GREATEST RESPECT IN THE WORLD FOR ANYONE IN EMS, WHETHER THEY BE THE PARAMEDIC THAT KEEPS THE BLOOD FROM GUSHING OUT OF SOMEONE'S BODY OR THE POOR GUY THAT SCRUBS THAT BLOOD FROM THE FLOOR OF THE UNIT AFTER THE RUN! SECONDLY, I AM ONLY A LAY RESCUER DUE TO THE...

i just get so p.o.'d because people say "oh, there goes the ambulance driver!" that really gets me torqued because it does not come anyways near describing everything that responders do or all that they put up with. i have ranted and raved on that theory for the past 2 years and have found more...

yes i must say that my grammar is poor. i have excellent writing skills but i am not very computer friendly and i don't type on home row like you're supposed to; i do the old 2-finger peck and jab at the keyboard-type deal. i dont have time to go through and use caps, punctuation and all that.

the local CO. that i ride with has 2009 Navistar Med Duty units built by TraumaHawk (i love that word, i dont know why though) and they are all LED. everything. the RapidResponse 4x4 tahoe has an LED light bar and LED red/blue flashing street-glow neon underneath. it's cool because at night you...

for one thing, it is not "ambulance driver"!! that is one of THE BIGGEST insults to a Paramedic! once when i was on a ride we got into it with this snooty CNA at the ER because she told us that she didn't need an ambulance driver (uggh, i hate that word!!) telling her how the patient was doing...

congrats, and welcome to the EMS family!!! i'm glad you have chosen to be one of America's best and make a difference in your community. as to your question, any ambulance company will arrange you a ride provided you sign off on liability and sign that you will abide by their rules and reg's...

holy crap that would be nasty! lucky for all of you it wasn't one of those cases where the pt. spurted blood out of a severed artery while you were doing CPR. i've seen it happen before and believe me it's nothing like the sprinkler in your back yard. the pressure is intense and it just goes...

i would like to get my hands on this piece of trash!! if i ever see him i swear i will use the power given to me by God to serve justice!