Chief1C

The head shouldn't be taken PR, causes hypoxia and leads to threads such as this.

Damn blonde's, offense intended.. I'm sitting in the drive through line at McDonalds; there is a minivan in front of me with Utah plates. The girl is clearly placing an order for six people. She reads off the numbers, and then goes; Okay.. I guess I don't understand how this works. .. I start tapping my thumbs on the wheel. Now she gets on to the apple pies, two for a dollar; aka .50c each. She orders ten. "Okay, so that's only $5?, how does that work?". I said out loud, O.M.G., and start tapping all of my fingers. Now.. We get to the free Coke Glass.. Oh boy.. But how much is it? I want a pink one; we only have green. But the sign shows a pink one, do they not make a pink one, or how does that work. A guy behind me beeps his horn. Now, I'm slapping my hand violently on the dash, making loud, rude comments to my passenger. She ended up pulling aside and going in to place her order.

Louisiana EMS has another one of those not-so-easy to navigate websites.

We see these all the time. It's an easy way to explain a crash caused by stupidity. Why exactly did you crash on a straight stretch with no trees or ditches? Oh.. Uhhh.. A deer ran out in front of me. It was explained by my insurance dude, that if you hit a deer, they'll pay for the damage. If you swerve to miss it and crash, you weren't in control of your vehicle, therefore the accident is your fault; and they'll be less likely to pay.

http://www.paramedicsforchildren.com/

The only reasonable fix I can see, is going nuclear.

As a Christian myself, however agnostic after being in EMS.. Yes, that's right.. I've seen stuff that no figure could ever do to a person for a good purpose. Furthermore, why would a God want us, to see such horrific, gruesome things that can happen to the human body? I just don't buy it. I think when you leave the house in the morning, odds of returning, are 50/50; no matter who you are, what you do, or how much you pray. That said, God would want you to be a good, moral, responsible person; do good for your fellow man/woman; be loyal to your church and pastor; but you also have to live your life for yourself. God would probably be okay with you partaking in a good career, that focuses on helping others; bringing them from danger and pain and all that mushy stuff. Do what you gotta do kid, but YOU have to live your life, do let someone map it out for you.

1. Would you give Osama Bin Laden CPR If his life depended on it? :roll: You have got to be kidding me... I wouldn't. Some people just deserve to die, especially Bin Laden. Hell, I'd kill him, even if he wasn't dead yet. I'm betting everyone in the military would too, and every one of the family members of the 9/11 victims too. Won't see me saving the life of someone that wouldn't think twice about killing every single man, woman and child in America. Have me fired, Noob.

For the love of Gawd, fix the title already.

Nope paid. Didn't look that bad; Falsifies reports, cheats on gf, lives with parents, Mormon, that about covers it.

Took a while, but I finally noticed she had a face too!

Ahhhh... SVA. I believe that surfaced because of our neighbors to the east? New Jersey, gives every volunteer a bad name; dragging EMS kicking and screaming back to 1940. You really can't group us all with Jersey. I think we should do a solid, and give Jersey back to the English, the French, Spain, hell.. Iran. Drill, blast and set it afloat.

I absolutely hate that show.. WTF. What kind of person would find it entertaining, to watch someone humiliate themselves, their spouse, their entire family; possibly ruin the marriage; for money. Not just that, but what kind of person would risk losing the love and respect of their entire family, when they may not end up with any money at all? It's kind of sick.

Until I was on a crew that did it frequently, I had not heard the term "jurisdictional grievance". Some people get royally pissed off when you show up at their call, before they are even tapped out. Cops would call in wrecks, or state on the air that someone called them instead of 9-1-1; hell we'd get on scene before anyone was dispatched. :twisted: Don't do that anymore, guess it doesn't matter about the patients life. It matters who is in someone else's sandbox.

No, they usually do it because back in the day, funeral homes couldn't keep up with federal standards. Or towns just didn't have an ambulance, and nobody wanted to do it; so groups of citizens got together and formed rescue squads, or first aid crews, etc. A lot of good came out of that, it's not all bad, it just depends on how things work in each individual town. Some people have done it, hated it; or got burned out and moved on; or just don't understand how it works. I don't have the patience to explain it. Anyhoo, people created ambulance services so their towns, no matter how big; or how dinky, were not so far from other services. Or maybe they thought they could do better, than what was already in place. Today, either municipalities won't foot the bill; or there are so many services, that everyone couldn't go paid because they wouldn't bring in enough cash. If it were planned well, and you replaced every three or four services with two staffed ambulances; it could probably be pull off. But there is no way to make every service paid, they'd go bankrupt too soon after. A few i.e. hundred or thousand; would have to be dissolved. Smaller areas don't need 10 ambo's; larger areas need 20. As many years as EMS has existed, it will take twice as many, to solve all of it's problems. I believe the solution is consolidation.

Obviously the topic was started to cause a pissing match. Rather than seeing the same old, "we're better than you" arguments, I expected links to the other two hundred topics that ended with similar results.

Wrong. It was a turtle that ducked and covered.

lol

I don't think it's possible to reach many locations in our coverage area in less than 8 minutes. I may take as long as 35 minutes to drive from the station to the scene. That is on a clear, sunny day; when it's snowing it could take close to an hour.

Cesarean.

Perhaps their system is flawed. However, I think it's quite common to wait for an ambo, anywhere. Small town, big city; there will never be enough ambulances for everyone that calls. Someone is always going to be at the farthest point in a coverage area. Maybe if officials made a decision to stop sending out ambulances like taxi's, this wouldn't happen so frequently. I bet just with in the last ten minutes, a dozen heart attack victims had to wait, because someone was shuttling a BS call to the ER.

After that one, I came across this.. Kinda funny, in it's own 'wtf way'.

At the very least, you'd have to be 16 years of age to be an EMT or First Responder. Next, your state would have to recognize you, if they don't allow someone to be an EMT or FR(CFR) under the age of 18. What that means is, you can take the class as early as 17yrs/o; however you must be 18 to take the written and practical courses. Everyone will argue something different, but each case is different, as far as age requirements. If you look into your states' Child Labor Act, it may outline what kinds of activities you can be involved in at the ages of 14-17. I would suggest starting w/ CPR, Standard and Advanced First Aid, at your age (as it shows, 15). Many areas, like Wendy said, have explorer programs. That would probably be the best place to start.

In this region, there is actually an EMS Tax. Emergency Management Services. A LOT of people assume it's E... Medical ..S. I dunno what that funding goes toward, I assume EMA/CD.

No. and No. Just my opinion.