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So my partner and I were talking yesterday and he said that one provision of our (California) Ambulance Driver License is that if we are off-duty (in our POV) and get pulled over on suspicion of DUI the BAC cut-off is .04 instead of .08. Anyone have experience or knowledge of this? He claims his...

So I'm sitting here posting for a while on a nice sunny day, and my partner and I are curious:how does YOUR company number the ambulances in its fleet? I'll start. Ours are done based on the model year, and the order the ambulances were purchased. For example unit 912 was the 9th ambulance...

You are assuming the person went out the night before based off overhearing people talk about weekend plans. Did you actually see the person out drinking? If not then you do not know anything. Later in the day, my partner admitted to staying up until 0300 and having a beer shotgunning...

Thanks to everyone for all the advice and suggestions. I spoke with my supervisor today and, given the nature of the situation and the cumulative details, the company is going to open an investigation into it. Thankfully I work for a great company and (whether YOU think he was impaired or not)...

Thanks for all the suggestions. We still haven't had a call and my partner seems less impaired. Looking back I should have immediately called the sup instead of waiting a couple hours to make a decision. Now it's probably too late... And did I mention my partner is kind of a ****? When they...

So, my partner showed up for our 0700 shift today and reeked of alcohol. I know he/she went out last night because a few coworkers were talking about their weekend plans at station earlier in the week. He/she was asleep on the station floor (no couches) when I arrived to clock in this morning...

Staff bathrooms at ERs....I will usually only use the bathroom at a SNF if it's an emergency. Most of the SNFs we frequent have that certain odor to them where I really don't want to put my butt on their toilet seats. Otherwise, Panera has nice bathrooms and doesn't mind us coming in to use...

I've been doing crossfit for almost two years now and LOVE it. Definitely helps with being able to lift our more portly patients. So most of them.