https://www.emtcity.com/discover/EMT City - All ActivityenOlder with more aches and pains doing transfers. 🤮 Patients are getting fatter and fatter. Seems like most start out at about 275-300 lbs.Fri, 01 May 2026 15:05:32 +0000Blowing up my inbox today! I just let my EMT-B lapse. Haven’t used it in 3-4 years, and didn’t do any CE in the last two. Probably a good thing there isn’t. Can’t imagine what these kids today would be doing with it. 😂😂😂😂Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:43:19 +0000Semi retired. Forgot this account was still active.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:53:17 +0000Not a Medical Director anymore, just running an EMS fellowship and teaching the fellows how to be medical directors.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:43:31 +0000I come around rarely no longer in fire or EMS but still buff it and send out an emergency alertsWed, 29 Apr 2026 16:36:34 +0000Yup. Still around... Left EMS about 10 years ago to go and teach Nursing at a community college here in the Netherlands. Hi to all the golden oldies... CarlWed, 29 Apr 2026 14:47:52 +0000I'm still around. Just about to hit 11 years as an ED nurse at my level 1 trauma center, work nights as a charge nurse. Still love emergency medicine though I joke it's kinda like Stockholm syndrome at this point lol.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:40:19 +0000Yo. I'm back. I'm an EMS medical director in a "big" city and an ED doc, so living the dream. How y'all been?Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:10:29 +0000I'm still around, not doing much with ems anymore these days, I taught for a number of year but now not bedside nursing anymore.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:23:19 +0000Been a long time! Hi all!Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:19:00 +0000Wow , been like 15 plus years ….. still here just haven’t been onTue, 28 Apr 2026 20:59:42 +0000As others have mentioned, every state has its own regulations, as does every hospital. I can give you some insight into work for an EMT as an ED Tech vs. EMS: my son is an EMT(B) and found a great job as an ED tech in a busy hospital. There they trained him how to do IVs and was just selected to be trained on ultrasound-guided IV insertion for the hard sticks. He does splinting, EKGs, straight blood sticks, and occasionally urinary caths, so his scope of practice as a B is in *some* ways wider than when he was riding the bus. His salary is roughly the same as when working EMS; his benefit package is a bit better. Hours are better; three 12 hour shifts weekly vs. 24 hours every three days. The pacing and physicality of the work is surprisingly similar - instead of hauling Strykers with bariatrics through fields he sprints over with a Lucas to help with compressions when a code is called on a medsurg floor. He says it is nice having MD-level care right there, all the time, when things go deep south, and an hierarchy that appreciates his work, although he misses some of MacGyvering of field work. He definitely has enjoyed a better dating life surrounded by 75% female nurses in the ED than by 85% male coworkers in EMS, but misses some of the guy-bonding in EMS. Opportunities as a hospital ED tech vary by both state and by hospital policy, but at least in rural Virginia ED techs are in short supply and are a welcome addition to the ED team.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:23:10 +0000*blowing dust off my account* Poking in. Is there not a chat room anywhere anymore?Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:42:39 +0000Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of transferring from Nremt to NJ ems? And is there a way to fill out and submit the EMS 64 document online?Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:18:05 +0000Rat is back. I couldn't get a link to get into rat115, so I had to start a new name. 🤫 TonyaSun, 22 Mar 2026 21:48:12 +0000I haven't been on the City in a l-o-n-g time. Because of cardiac issues, I've been out of the EMS field since late 2021. I'm going back to school and am working one a research paper for one of my classes. I'm working on a paper about access to mental health care for first responders. If you would be willing to take this research questionnaire, please follow the link below. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeF7gFjwT655fUu_YCwz_gndgl6S8XE794f5eOVuz2IwvZ5nA/viewform?usp=header Thank you! TonyaSun, 22 Mar 2026 21:38:40 +0000For all the older folks on here.... It's rat. I lost my login info under rat115, so I had to change my name. How's everyone?Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:34:48 +0000Massachusetts just passed a law that EMT’s A’s and Medics can no longer work in a hospital (except a hospital based EMS service) or in a walk in clinic/doctors office. You can not do private hire events like football games or set medics unless you are on payroll and assigned by your service that is a MA Licensed EMS service or Fire department. So look at the state laws before trying to work in an ER clinical setting.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:26:08 +0000Yup the OG “Medic One” still here since 2005. Good old days with Dust, we had some great online chats and the old days of video chatWed, 04 Mar 2026 19:52:39 +0000Still here.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:23:33 +0000I I had a seizure, this is in Deltona, FL, for some reason the cops came. NEVER before had the cops showed up before the EMT in the past. Now when my dad was dying of cancer and I was taking care of him on hospice. We've had to call 911, There was a DNR. and he was on hospice. MY dad was my world, at the time my mom was in a mentally Facility because she had a break down watching him die. He was diagnosed with cancer and in 10 months died. I was upset telling them to take him to the hospital. He didn't need to be resuscitate anyways. I never threaten her or got violent in any way. WE got into an argument. she told me "she would fix" me. I didn't know what that meant. After I calmed down, remind you 4 days prior on Thanksgiving 22 my brother in law of 25 years died in our home, they came up from polk county n at 330am he was found unconscious pronounced dead of an overdose sometime later, before they took my dad to hospital in tears I apologized.(6 days later my dad died) Next day after seizure, I had psychosis. Never had before in my life. I had an addiction to pills for 15 years but have been clean 8 years now. since 2018. Volusia cty police showing up first. There officers need to be trained on how to handle people having seizures and psychosis. I have no memory until two days later waking up in Halifax mental part. When drug test came back clean again urine and blood, they were ready to release me. The police were violent with me, my family even trying to tell them. They lied to Halifax why I was being backer acted, they treated me awful. HOW CAN I FIND out why Volusia police comes out when 911 is called for me?Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:17:23 +0000Willing to train only. Army combat light infantry medic, level one emergency RN. ICU, and surgical RN. Extreme combat medical treatment using what's available.Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:37:22 +0000There are a couple of options you might have. 1. take a job at a local ER as a tech or a paramedic 2. work a transfer truck 3. Move to another state - if you can. Minnesota gives their licenses out just for applying. But that's a big move. 4. Find a volunteer service you can help out at. This might be the only response you get from this site. If you move to missouri let me know, I can point you in the right direction of the services to look at on the west side of missouriMon, 25 Aug 2025 01:52:37 +0000Hello, It seems like there has been a couple of posts here over the last couple of days or weeks. Honestly you would be better served by finding a facebook group or other group as before the posts since june, the previous post was a year ago. This used to be one of most popular EMS Related discussion group but facebook sort of put this group out of commission because the responses were not instant. You won't get many responses to your posts if any at all. Sorry.Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:47:28 +0000hi, Im Bmad25, my username reflects my real name, take the first letter of my first name and the three letters of my last name and smash it together and you have my username. im a radio operator i have two club affilations: RVARC, LARC. I like working public events the two main races that i work is, the virginia ten miller and the mountain masochist foot race. i got my EMS credentials this year as an EMT-B. i plan on getting my PHTLS and work public events and ball games. I own a yeasu fTDX710 AESS and a Kenwood TS680s. my older brother is a Trauma nurse in Virginia. I like pinball and have membership at a local pinball joint. Favorite foods: Itallian food. NFL teams: Green Bay Packers, New England Patriots, Huston Texans. im also working on a mystery/thriller: Do Humman Men Dream of Wired Dreams.Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:40:13 +0000