Recent content by PapaBear434

I have never heard this before, but thanks to your colorful description I agree. I too like to be one of the "Ambulance People." Though I prefer to arrive in a puff of smoke or slowly creeping fog than a corn field.

I've found that ice will do a lot. I don't know if it's a placebo or real for them, but hey, anything that helps. When I was a trainee we had a known and frequent hypochondriac named Billy. I watched an old timer start an IV and give him a dose of "normasaline." Pronounced, of course, as...

I'll admit that I've gotten a little jaded as far as dealing with old people. Not a big fan of seeing "74 yom..." on my computer. I don't treat them any differently, but on the way there I'm a little grumpy. That said, most other calls I'm still giddy as a school girl. I can't help it, I...

I had a newbie partner that insisted on playing "Artist in the Ambulance" on the way to any decent sounding MVA. He is no longer with us. I'm a little fuzzy on the details, because I blacked out when my eyes rolled back in my head and the voices started, but I may have beat him with an O2...

I'll come out of my long dormancy and also join the chorus in saying "this is pretty obviously fake." It's like a bulleted checklist from a Powerpoint presentation of what might constitute police brutality. Seriously. Hollywood could have come up with a more plausable brutality case.

I think you missed the part where I was joking about that. Not your fault, as I am not that great at expressing sarcasm in text. I thought "Poopy Head" would have done it... Don't get me wrong, I have legitimate concerns and criticisms of Obama. He hasn't shut down Gitmo yet, he hasn't...

And you missed the entire point of the comment... I'd rather leave this entire thing up to Obama ALONE than leave it into the hands of people that think name calling is the way to win an argument.

Autodidacticism is a great quality, and some people can pull it off for things as complex as medicine. But I imagine that a lot of folks who think they can, really can't and shouldn't. And I think that for the percentage of people that can pull it off, it's really not worth organizing a...

You can live without car insurance. You can take a bus or walk. You can live without life insurance, just keep your bills paid and don't have a funeral. But health insurance is a necessity. You WILL need it some day, no matter how healthy you imagine yourself to be. And right now, even the...

And this is the part where rational people stop listening to you.

I believe the part about taking taxes to defend and promote the "general wellness" of the United States. Besides, the Constitution was meant as a guideline, not a blood oath to the death. When it was written, medical care consisted of getting your leg cut off if you got a wound deeper than the...

You're covering a pretty narrow realm of health care. Some people are going to get diabetes no matter what they do, it's just in the genetic cards. Some people are going to get MS. Some people are going to be born into Huntington's. Others will be hit by a bus and be brain damaged for the...

Yes. Buzzwords solve everything, despite reality. They should have taken personal responsibility for themselves and not have selfishly went out and got cancer.

A little trick I picked up from my proctor. If you have someone who thinks they are dying, but are actually by all accounts fine ("I'm having a heart attack!" with a completely normal rhythm but they are just freaking out over indigestion), you hang a bag, start an IV, and let it flow. You at...

Thing is, you can survive just fine off the food bank and soup kitchen fair food. Tenderloin tastes better, sure, but you will get the same life-sustaining nutrients from the beef stew in a can. The free clinic isn't going to cover dialysis. They aren't going to be able to give you chemo...