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As others have pointed out, you obviously have all the answers. Your expansive understanding of how things work obviously trumps everyone else's knowledge and experience.

That depends on where you work. In some places, if you step outside of protocols you could be fired. In other places, protocols are more of guidelines and it's expected you use critical thinking and sound judgement to treat your patient, since most of medicine is not black and white and the...

Or at least that have been caught yet ;)

Sasha, MrBrown, medicRob- you've missed some good ones...

That's a quote that's on the bottom of every one of my posts...

Wow, somebody is a little defensive :rolleyes: I literally said nothing in this thread. How do you know my stance on this subject?

*needs to reference for pedi vitals*

1) Yes. 2) The hell is a bronchospasmolyticum?.... o_O 3) This is your homework I assume?

These aren't from that moron who ran that Paramedic AF page, are they? Isn't that what he called himself?

That's too much education...

Not a chance in hell I'd work for them. Don't have time to elaborate more at the moment though. Well, I suppose it does also depend on what other options you have, though

The curriculum seems fine. It looks like you have two choices between curriculum- one shorter and one more in depth. Me personally, if starting off, I'd have liked a more in depth class. Their pass rates aren't terrible either (appears to be 91% for 2015). Though pass rates can sometimes be...

Same here. I haven't had one since October. Was easily drinking 2-3/day, plus coffee. Now it's just coffee, and not even as much as I had been drinking with the energy drinks.

But it has what medics crave...

Especially my IFT days. Now, they couldn't care less. "Do your thing, just dont end up on the news..."

Read it and learn what it says. There's really no trick. It's not as hard as you think it might be. For the most part, the treatments will be what you learned in class. Focus on the things that are different from class.

Gotcha. Yeah, definitely not that big. We have about 2,000 uniformed positions here. And yeah, if I decide to go for battalion chief, it'll be in my mid to late 30s, with deputy possibly a few years after that. Not sure if I want that headache though... Lol

For FDNY? If so, that's a much lower number than I'd have expected from them