Recent content by smvde

I guess I'm not "most" as described by this poster, I for one have NO FREAKING DESIRE to be a firefighter. I disagree with shocksalot's statement about staying in EMS, but I will say that it's a young mans field, and those of us getting long in the tooth tend to leave for less stressful and...

Oh yes, glorious 911 job. getting covered in puke, piss and blood.

Gut feeling, NO DICE. The DUI kills you in just about any service I'm aware of. I've seen job ads that have the disclaimer at the bottom. "DUI need not apply"

Depends on the service and the training officer. My current job, I started as a part timer, walked in, someone threw me a shirt and said "You're riding with Dee on M3." When I went full time, I had to do two 12 hour shifts as a ride along, and pass a skills test, but there had been a Major...

As I have stated before, and told every student in paramedic school I know. The key to success in medic school is simple. 1. Save the war stories for smoke breaks or lunch. 2. Read all materials at least twice before class. 3. Listen at least 20 times more than you speak. 4. Remember...

Jesus, all this talk about places that have only so many paramedic slots, and require paramedics to work as basics has given me a headache. Thank God I'm here in south Georgia where we use common sense. If you are a paramedic, licensed by the state, you wear a paramedic patch. The services...

I agree in part, but the knowledge and theory you learn is school is tatamount to becoming a good medic. So true as we all soon learn Dead on the money. Having experienced/suffered through, several Zero to Hero medics, I agree.

I can only hope that you weren't driving while filming that.

Best advice I can give goes for both male and female. Simple advice really. Keep your pants on at work, or if you prefer, never get your honey where you get your money. Too often I've seen EMT students and new hires who immediatly try to screw everyone at the station. Sort of like badge...

I'll go with that, but lets make the line a little lower, say Blakely, and call the lower part Real Georgia and the rest Atlanta Metro South. I think that the OP will find that the pay scale in North Georgia or at least the ATL area will not support a single man well, much less a family...

My best advice would be to avoid Atlanta, we in Georgia are trying to give or sell it to Alabama.

Again I say, Whatever.

Let me clarify for those of you who take offense to any and everything, my little idiom was intended to make the point that new EMTs, First Responders, etc are so quick to obtain a jumpbag, fill it full of things they have little or no use for, and seldom maintain. My father founded the first...

Perhaps the best thing to do is follow these following rules. Read all materials prior to class at least twice. Listen 90 percent more than you talk. Save the war stories for after class. Keep your ears and mind open, mouth shut. Use common sense. Pay attention. It works...

Just wait till you hit medic school, you will look back fondly at those small clinical requirements