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Aidey I am not arguing that boarding people is not all that effective, hence the reason I hate doing it. However, it is in the protocol and we have to do it here. Yes I asked her if she had pain I didnt lead her at all. The first thing she said when I asked her if she had pain is that her...

Aidey, what dont you understand about this? You cannot move the patient until they are boarded and collared if they fail the C-spine protocol. What is so hard to understand about this? Your a medic, arent you? I didnt turn my attention away to yell at a drunk. I informed my partner the...

Aidey, seriously? We explained everything we were doing once the idiot was removed from the scene. We made sure we padded the appropriate side of the board that way she was not lying directly on her back. We followed our protocol to a T, The hospital left her in the collar for quite a while...

USA, yeah he basically said that we are not the police or FD and we have no right saying those things about people on scene. He also said it makes me seem "dangerous". Whatever the hell that means..

What everyone said is accurate. the pt had to be placed on the longboard because not only did she have head pain she also had neck and back pain secondary to the assault. As I said, she was hit in the face,thrown against a truck and then kicked in the stomach. Her anxiety alone was a...

Aidey he wasnt the patient, the patient was the female assaulted the man who i referred to as jackass was the guy who assaulted her also PD was on scene and removed him. I said that as he was being put in the back of the wagon.

EMS, he threatened to go to management because when he asked me what was going on i said "I couldnt get the story because that guy was being a jackass and was yelling too loud". He didnt like that I said that to him while we were still on scene.

he was upset because i referred to the guy who beat up the pregnant woman as a jackass

NYMedic, unfortunately this is the mentality I now have. Its unfortunate but it is what it is.

I recently started working with a new partner about 3 weeks ago now and its clear as day that I cannot trust the guy. Here is why. We went on a call which came in as an assault. We got updated during the response that the victim was a pregnant female who was having abdominal pain and could no...

Pretty much what everyone said is what i would suggest as far as bringing your lunch and dinner ETC from home. Make sure you pack enough snacks such as nutri-grain bars, maybe some string cheese, wheat thins ETC. Also don't buy sodas and try to avoid the midnight runs to McDonalds if your busy...

I was sent to the bus station one time for a frequent flyer of ours. This night he called because he wanted a ride to the hospital triage area so he could use the hospital's computer to check his email to assure that his state check had been deposited in his account. No lie. He was arrested...

Linuss has a great point. The b/s calls we go on are now not being covered by medicare/medicaid. The knee pain since june at the shelter I had the other night is going to be on the hook for the bill despite having medicaid and he will not pay it of course so now my company is out that money...

I don't think I am overly exaggerating abilities of medics at all. I think Medics are highly skilled and highly unexaggerated. Yes, we have protocols but it does not mean there are not bad medics out there that don't get in trouble for messing up. Thats my point, the responsibility falls on...

What makes me think they deserve more? Really dude, lets see, first off Medics and other EMS street providers are required to think for themselves and make clinical choices based off their experience and their training meaning all the responsibility falls on them this is especially the case...

Schulz, we all get burnt out at times. I'm not sure what sort of system you work in but I am sure it is something worthy of this knowledge. The reason people in EMS get burnt out is not always because of their attitudes. It is the low pay, the lack of respect we get as a profession and...

#3 covers #1 nicely actually. Most people who consider themselves clinicians will intervene when called for. ^^^ Exactly what my point was, well said.

We have all been there, burnout syndrome. Rather it be from working tons of hours and running on sleep, to picking up the same patient over and over again or the low pay we have in EMS. It could be a combination of them all. For me I would have to say it is the relentless b/s calls we get...

NVRob not exactly, what I mean by treating patients to protocol is if a patient is vomiting their brains out giving Zofran or Reglan if it is appropriate to do so. Not just withholding it because they do not want to do the paperwork which unfortunately is all too common from what I have seen...

This is why family and people that have no medical training in general need to stop self medicating. These people have no clue how much actually goes into these medicines and if you give the improper dose to someone or god forbid they have an anaphylactic reaction to the medication then it will...