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Post du jour Talking as a newbie medic, I feel that the limited exposure to client's actually requiring advanced airway adjunct's plays a major part in the decreased proficiency. I mean come on, I know of times where there may be a total of 4-5 clients who require intubation in an entire month...

Well like I said before, not trying to preach. And while I do have success stories with that type of situation, they are scattered at best. I live in a rural area as well, and have run into the same problem many times before. Just thought I'd throw my two cents into the kitty. In the end, I...

I was 18 and Xray school was a year away,so I figured what the hell. Got my basic in between classes, started working part time at the local hospital based EMS and just kind of never left. Tried nursing school for a year or so, but it was a wash. So medic school seemed like the next logical...

Just an Idea... She is lonely. Plain and simple. All the other posts I've read give really good advice on how to handle it from an service/agency standpoint but, I think if the root of the problem were to be exposed it would show a pattern of behaviors that directly relate to depression and...

Chinese Fire Drill When EmergyStat went tits up, we here in Mississippi were left scrambling. It really was the proverbial "Chinese Fire Drill".Everybody was left steppin' and fetchin'. I had the great pleasure of working the night EmergyStat was forced to suspend service across the state...

Nicknames When I was first setting up my Hotmail account when I was around 15, I was asked for a user name. So always being a huge Sir Sean fan, (and not wanting to be cliche with any 007 reference) I chose one of my favorite Connery movies for inspiration. So, "MedicineMan" = The Baddest Mofo'...

Get this immediatley! Ive been where you are and I have three words for you: external hard drive. Now a days, there almost essential. I have a Dell and I expreienced a hard drive failure. Fortunatley, I had just recently purchased an external hard drive and was using it as a storage device and...

I started training in Shotokan karate when I was 7 after getting my !@# handed to me at school. a couple of times. My pop took me to the local dojo and told the instructor what was happening. My pop said that he did'nt want me fighting but at the same time he did'nt want me to rolled on a daily...

The Muskrat Code Let me just say that were I work we have the "distress button" on our radios. But if you used it you had better be in grave need of police prescence. That being said,if one needed to alert dispatch or others about a possibly hostile situation there were few to little options...

The Muskrat Code :rolleyes:Like I said, totally nonsensical. Yet, totally effective.