Recent content by Sparky79

This is seriously messed up. I don't care how long someone has been working as a basic, they should never be paid more than a medic. In my opinion, a first year medic should make more than a 30 year basic. In my full time career I am an electrician. An apprentice electrician will never make...

This is my situation as well. I can't justify the cost and time commitment involved in becoming a medic as a part time job. I think this is a common amongst part time emts. Most of the basics I know that do ems full time have plans to go to medic school. If ems is your career you'd be crazy not...

I hate ePCR's A report that I could handwrite in 5 minutes, now takes me 30 minutes to do on the computer, half of which is filling out ridiculous NEMSIS data for government statistics. As far as the billing thing goes, I could care less. But, that's mostly because we're a municipal...

Not EMS specific, but I think the Smartphone was a huge step forward (though sometimes it seems like a step in the wrong direction). I could never go back to not having all of the conveniences a smartphone offers. Having the power and information of the internet in the palm of your hand 24/7...

It sounds like malpractice/negligence to me. It's not your job to determine the value of your patients life. Your job is to treat your patients according to the accepted professional practices. Whether you feel they are worth saving or not, if your patient does not have a DNR withholding...

I'm an electrician for my fulltime job. All electricians are called sparky by the other trades on a jobsite. I was born in 1979

No, the male threads point towards the fire. The female threads (even though they are internal) point towards the truck (aka, exit)

We call it "long lug out" , and as Medic417 said it has to do with the hose couplings.

Yep, seemed pretty clear to me also.

The way I read it, private companies would not be affected. The law is for municipal police, fire and ems only. FWIW, this country needs less union involvement, not more. Unions when they were created served a purpose. They fought for employee safety, and fair working conditions, overtime...

I'm an electrician so I may be able to help here. There is no need to design a device to do what you are talking about, they already exist. The device is called a non-contact voltage tester (in the trade we refer to them as "tic tracers") and as DrParasite said already they operate by sensing...

Austin Powers didn't seem to have any complaints about his. :P

I visit this forum as well as Firehouse.com on a regular basis (as well as multiple electrician and construction related forums). I had been following the OP's thread on Firehouse and then when I saw him post the same thing on here (with a few increased "details") I felt the need to share it...

This is the OP's post on Firehouse.com on 10/16/09 This is not only an issue of whether or not he should put lights on his POV, this kid as some other pretty serious issues to deal with and some maturing to do before even thinking about being involved with any aspect of public safety. For...

I tend to agree with this statement. If you CHOOSE to make a career doing a job that thousands are willing to do for free, what do you expect? I would bet that even the oldest, most experienced medics that have been doing this for their entire career knew when they made the decision to get into...