Recent content by SHFD

Settle down there, hero. I don't know how it works in other states, but around here EMS as a separate entity is becoming more obsolete, as many FD's are beginning to do all their own EMS. It makes the most sense. To say that FD's are not at all patient centered is ignorant, FD's have evolved...

If you can find a decent area to volunteer that would be my first choice if you can afford to. Privates are frustrating because IFT's only offer experience to a point, and you begin to adopt bad habits in that kind of sleazy environment. When there's no profits involved, it becomes about having...

EMS is mostly customer service because most of your pts aren't having a true emergency, so you spend less time using skills and more time using Jedi comforting skills. But every so often customer service is thrown out the window when you have a very sick patient, and it's imperative you make no...

First you have to realize whether or not you even want to be a medic. What you think being a medic entails, may not be what's cracked up to be and you might get burnt out on it and realize you wasted 9k grand and 2 years of your life. Secondly, you need to the confidence you gain from...

I'm actually dual certified in NH which is NREMT, and MA. It' necessity for me because I work on the Northshore, and Somerville area, but I'm a volly FF in NH as well. Living in the cape, being NREMT won't matter unless you decide to look into moving to another state for work, or just farther...

At my company they silently encourage lapel pins that I got tired of putting on my uniform, which are definitely professional but not necessary. I do use a whacker belt for my radio which is just practical as hell when you have a lapel mic to diddle with, and it's great to have something that...

The nicer school in fact remains to be the only accredited school in my area.

I know the philosophy of getting a degree is primarily that the source is irrelevant, as long as you have the piece of paper, but is medic school an exception to that rule? One medic told me to go to the cheapest school I could find because ultimately the curriculum is state mandated and i'll...