Very general question here (for Paramedics).
Do you ever feel like it's been a waste of time to spend three years taking full-time courses in college to make less than 30,000 dollars a year when those with a GED can make twice that working on an assembly line?
We were sitting post and got moved by dispatch because our second truck took a call. My partner started to get up out of the back and come drive (she had gone back there to sleep), but I told her to stay back there - I'd drive. So she stayed back there, and I took off.
Was in town and almost...
I have a question. Really basic question that I'm unclear about.
Transporting a patient Priority 2 to the hospital when you encounter a rolled-over car.
Continue to hospital, call dispatch and let them know? Stop and do something with the original patient in back?
Related to the EMT Multitasking thread in this section:
My service requires nothing to be done during downtime. Lately, we've had some very slow days. Like, 0-2 calls in a 12 hour shift slow. I've been wondering if I could do something productive during that downtime to earn a little extra...
Hi. Quick question, if you don't mind.
I consider myself healthy. I've recently been tested and cleared of everything from diabetes to heart disease. I'm 21. I am 5'11 and 130 pounds. I have what is described as a runner's body, virtually no body fat. My biggest issue is an allergy that often...
Ok, quick, strange question. Anyone out there default to a front approach to intubation as opposed to the standard method? As in, instead of positioning oneself behind the patient and pulling up with the blade, positioning oneself in front of the patient and pulling down/forward. I initially...
This is such a stupid thread, and I know it, so please try to forgive me.
I'm a great medic. What I am not great at is directions.
My biggest fear about jumping into an EMS job is not in treating patients or anything of the sort. It's being able to get where I need to be.
So.
How big...
Anyone else use FISDAP currently, or previously while training?
If so, can you briefly describe what kind of statistics you ended with? Did you meet the default goals?