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Greetings all, Just curious, is there any body out there who is in EMS and has to deal with Diabetes? I have been a medic for 6 years and found out two weeks prior to graduating that I have diabetes. :sad: It just means that I have to watch myself even more than a regular diabetic...

Just to show about the other way around. My father gave me a book from Saint John ambulance when he first took a FA course in '62. It shows techniques like the Sylvester technique for AR... It will be funny to see in some years to come the improvements in EMS. We will be the anoining old...

This is a short one but still funny. Me and my partner were overseing the newbie in the service when we arrived at the hospital with a patient in full c-spine immobilisation. When we arrived in the ER and were to transfer the patient on the ER stretcher, the newbie tells him:"Don't move sir...

I've been at it for the past 6 years now and still going strong. I take very good care of my health and take time for myself when not working. It all depends how you handle stress also. If you are someone who gets stressed out easily, you might be prone to "burn outs" it is hard to tell just...

Have any of you ever worked a code with an auto pulse? It's a board to put under the patient and then there is a band that wraps around the chest of the patient and performs chest compressions by doing uniform compressions of the thorax. Works great. It can be brought right into the house...

Easiest money made by a MD. One of our regular once told me that before she let her boyfriend move in with her, she insisted he passed a virginity test. So buddy goes to the MD and askes for a virginity test and the MD brought him in the office and apparently he passed his test and was able to...

I love this.. it is too funny Marc: Farmer full name: Sewage worker??? (pass the deodorant) Dizzymedic: New SATAN????

Same here, the man knew he was infected and spit on them intentionaly. We endure too many things on our day to day job and i find it's good that someone puts their foot down.

I have a link here that shows quite a lot of them. Feel free to check it out. http://www.dafydd.com/emtlist.html Later.

Was in judo and wrestling. Never had a chance to hook up on any other martial art as I injured my hip in a basket ball tournament. The pain came back everytime I trained with my Judo / wrestling buddies so I had to quit for now.

Born and raised on the East coast of Canada. I m a PCP working in Bathurst, NB. I spend all day today on the beach with my feet in the water.

Ham operators are vital to EMS. When I worked for the red cross, we had a Ham operator assigned to every district in case of disaster. I never had the chance to take the training tought.

I find this hard to swallow. Around here, the officer hand guns and the Tazers. Plus the officers here have so much paperwork to do each time they draw their weapon, i'm very suprised one would mistaken one for another. It's like going to get a spine board and come in with a scoop stretcher...

Greetings, I really enjoy doing simulation projects. I've done a few of them aroud town. I'm a casualty simulation instructor on my spare time. Last one we did, we had a whole arena full, a smoke machine, two crashed cars, FD, PD and two medic crews. I'll try to find some picts to post...

I am an addict... I know it... I acknowledge it... I refuse to do anything about it... I love my diet Pepsi or any diet drink for that matter. I got off all the rest of the junk but cannot and will not get rid of that one...Did I forget to say I was an addict?

My first call was kinda odd. It was an 16 year old girl who tried to commit suicide. She bought this stuff (it looked like colgate toothpaste) off the street for $20 and told us it was supposed to kill her within the hour after ingestion. Still don't know what it was but someone got an easy...

Ouch, those are tough calls. We had one like that last summer. The kid was 16 years old and had saved all winter for a four wheeler. He was enjoying his new bike when he was climbing up an offramp and didn't make it up. The ATV tipped over and he fell with the bike. He landed in the water...

Greetings, Myself, i wouldn't dare ask an officer to remove his weapon before entering my rig. When an officer gets into my rig, it's because i have a fellon, criminal or suspect in my bus. If things get ectic, I want that officer to have his full arsenal to deal with the situation. As far...

Greetings Jenn, I feel really sorry for you. This kind off situation should never happen to anybody, especially to someone new. We got individuals (that is the only civil term I could find) in our service that are like that. Once I worked with their "leader" and it was horrible. You feel...

Greetings all, I'm new to this forum and already i love it. My name is Marc and i'm a primary care paramedic in Canada. I've been involved in EMS for the past 12 years. I've touched pretty much every subject in EMS (teaching, FF, Dispatching, Lifeguard, cas sim). I am pretty much...