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Hey all. Some of the flow is off in this, but I'm working on it...slowly but surely. :wacko: Any critiques or ideas to make the flow better? I know some of you are fire-fighters... so if there is anything in there that's WAY off from common/standard procedures, please let me know? Thanks...

So I'm trying to find a t-shirt to get a paramedic/firefighter friend of mine for christmas. he is married so it can't be anything racy... and besides; it's not like that... :P I found 2 tshirts I really like... but which one? "when the beast is raging.....tame it" "Some show courage...

So what's up with the "rivalry" between cops, firefighters and emts/medics? In some cases, it seems more like barely-contained hatred. And it's not just the individual; it's the person in the uniform. I mean you have an emt walk into a room with a cop, and said emt does all he can to make sure...

I missed most of the "I'm new" threads.... so welcome to EMT-Life from me!! :P

Brand new women's EMT pants by Gall's, bought them off Ebay but the crotch hangs WAY too low for me. They are size 12 x 31 (which equals about size 5 in womens pants). I'd like to sell them for the same price; $22 for the pants, $5 for shipping.

Ok... placement of the groin straps... Last year in my class, we were told to really see-saw them, and to get them in the crack, "like a thong." This year, I was trying to teach the new basics to do that, and heard from the grapevine that one of the students said I had "something up my crotch"...

A paramedic friend of mine was telling me about a run he had been on the other morning. Said they were paged out for a 36 year old PNB female. Got on scene, found a 33 year old PNB female, cool to the touch, with her jaw clenched shut. He said that the other medic tried everything to get an...

We've all got those stupid things we've done or said that someone remembers. Those stupid things that we will NEVER live down.. What are they? Last year in my basic class, my partner and I, (before the b***h abandoned me); were in the cardiac station. My "patient" was having difficulty...

So I'm 9 miles away from my mom's house, heading back to my dad's house so I could go to work this morning. I was on the road a little after 8:30. I had my radio in my car, and (as I said), I was about 9 miles or so away. I heard our tones go off so I pulled my car to a stop. All I heard was the...

how do you make them work? I found one (the purple hippo riding the pony saying "i'd hit it") but how do you get it so it's animated?

Thanks CelticTigress for this... got it from your myspace... :ph34r: A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students. "Human beings are the only animals that stutter", she says. A little girl raises her hand. "I had a kitty-cat who stuttered", she volunteered. The...

This may be a really dumb question - but are there any EMS professionals that aren't perverted? I'm an instructor's aide in the EMT-B class that I just graduated from. It's both Tuesday and Thursday nights with 2 different classes. Tuesday, one of the aides is hounding me to sleep with him. I...

I GOT MY STATE LICENSE TODAY!!!!! :wub: I can officially run with my group of first responders now!! :beerchug: Ok, so I'm just a little bit excited right now... I've waited over 2 months for my license...and i got it!! I'd hug my mailman if I knew who he was... ^_^

What language or country of origin does "paramedic" come from... and what does it mean? Not the definition of the word... but... you know what I mean? :unsure:

Just got done watching Flight 93, mopped up my face, and decided to write my "review" on it. I don't know how to put it into words. I don't want to say "it's a great film" because it portrays a horrible event in American history. But personally, I think it is a good movie. It portrays the...

My best friend was killed in a car accident 2 years ago tomorrow. He was riding in the back seat of his grandparents' car with his little brother; and grandparents were in the front. A pickup truck hit them going approximately 83 mph (according to the experts). The back seat was pushed up an...

So I sent in for my state license 2 months ago. I've talked to people who said they've gotten it back in as little as 2 weeks, and as long as a month. I'm getting frustrated, so I called the state's department of health/ems stuff. Know what I get? An answering machine. Well... at least we know...

A friend of mine got into a car accident today and I went into the ER shortly after she got there. She was still on the board with the head blocks and c-collar, etc. The doctor came in after however long, and the first thing he did was remove the head blocks. Ok... no problem. Then he...

http://www.jems.com/columnists/bledsoe/articles/111046/ This is a very interesting study on spinal immobilization. Raises a few good questions, at any rate.

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