MidwestMedic

Gotta love these comics.

http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/2006/11/know-it-all.html

I didn't get a good look at the trivia card until the comment above...awesome...too funny.

Anybody else recognize the equation for the speed of light the Donny Osmond is dacing in front of...good example of white & nerdy there.

I'm going to have to go though the whole video now and look at the details more...i suspect the web pages have funny things too. I noted his myspace friends but Weird Al is great at putting so many details into things.

Weird Al's MySpace (the real one)

this is awecome, thank you for sharing.

totally funny ad.

great find

nicely done.

I suspect with a bit bigger budget you could have done something like the state of new jersey. Have you seen it?

Roll With It

The Flash/Broadband version is the best. Check it out.

My wife has gotten jealous at times over the years as well. Sometimes I have given her reason to, but not every situation is as it seems. When you're in this career, you spend a lot of time with your partner and a few things can happen.

1) You and your partner hate each other and never talk while off duty and sometimes not even on duty.

2) You and your partner become very close. This due to stress creating a common bond.

3) You and your partner become intimate. This happens. It's a reality, but not the only option.

A lot of partners share inside jokes. Jokes that may seem like something totally different. Also, it all depends on perspective. If you are concerned, then the best thing to do is address the issue. Letting it fester and boil will only make things worse. Talk with your spouse today. Not tomorrow or next week, but today. That way you will both be able to get it over and done with. I know I have always appreciated my wife letting me know what she thinks. May not always like it, but it makes things better and you can correct things before they get out of hand.

I am not sure what I can add that was not in this post. My wife gets jealous of the hours I spend with my female coworker. It's something she is not used to dealing with becuase I have not been in EMS full-time for that long. But, I do hope it is something she will someday understand.

In an attempt to offend half the people out there, here is some related humor.

Taken from this web site: http://www.livejournal.com/users/mcsnee/433748.html

A New Theory

Yesterday, President Bush endorsed the idea of teaching intelligent design 'theory' alongside evolution and natural selection in schools.

I'd like to propose a third alternative theory. I call it the theory of "Design by Unintelligent Hand," or "DUH" for short. The basic concept? The Creator is an utter dumbass.

Consider the evidence:

1. The dark. One of the big ideas behind Intelligent Design is that there's no way an eye could evolve. My contention? There's no way a Creator who wasn't a goddamn imbecile would create eyes that don't work half the time.

2. Toes. They're just dangling there, off the end of your feet, with a bunch of fragile little bones. Combine these with #1 above, and you've got a recipe for disaster. You think Jonathan Ives would have created something as stupid as toes?

3. Nonspecific urethritis. I can understand a Creator trying to enforce draconian anti-sex measures by punishing people who break them with oozing pustules and fiery pain when they urinate, because, hey, that's what Creators do. But random urinary tract infections? Just, y'know, out of the blue, not being able to take a piss without screaming? That's just stupid.

4. Gravity's acceleration. Stuff breaks when it falls at 32 ft/sec^2. A little gravity's good--you don't want your coffee to go flying off the desk, after all--but why's it got to be so heavy? And don't get me started on what happens when you drop a bowling ball on #2 up there. You think the Creator hasn't done that a time or two and thought to himself, "Good gravy, I'm a fool"?

5. Tiger cubs. They are almost unbearably cute--so cute that if you saw one, you'd want to take it home. But then it grows up and EATS YOU. Good thinkin', there, C!

6. Genetics and natural selection. Anybody who's ever smushed a generation of drosophila melanogaster except the ones born with red eyes and has then seen the next generation born with red eyes understands the principles behind heritable traits and the idea that selecting for those traits makes it more likely the next generation will have them. So we have a Creator who goes to the trouble of making this simple, effective system, and then ignores it completely to create a billion or so species out of thin air. The sharpest tool in the shed? I THINK NOT.

Obviously, this is a theory whose time has come. Please join me in demanding that DUH be taught alongside evolution and intelligent design in our nation's classrooms. It's easy to support: just copy and paste this html into your journal!

yeah, I know what the ACLS protocol says. Our services protocol has a slight alteration for some study. If the pt has been down for at least 10 min and is intubated, you can give bi-carb as early as you can fit it in without slowing down your other treatments.

Yeah, we follow ACLS, like most people. But, I like the idea of vasopressin giving me one less thing to keep track of for a bit.

But, we do not use vasopressin for asystole. Mayeb for the next set of protocols.

What we have found locally is a very good save rate IF we arrive with a patient in v-fib and they are still in v-fib after the stacked shocks, that epi-shock followed by bicarb-shock. Note: by the time we arrive (average of 8 min or less) and we get that far in the protocol, the pt has already been down at least 10 minutes.

OK. I have to say I have only read about half of this thread. So, apologize profusely for any repetition.

I did some Webster searches and I think these apply to this topic.

Faith - see 2B1 - http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book...amp;x=0&y=0

and the quote below from http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=hypothesis

HYPOTHESIS, THEORY, LAW mean a formula derived by inference from scientific data that explains a principle operating in nature. HYPOTHESIS implies insufficient evidence to provide more than a tentative explanation <a hypothesis explaining the extinction of the dinosaurs>. THEORY implies a greater range of evidence and greater likelihood of truth <the theory of evolution>. LAW implies a statement of order and relation in nature that has been found to be invariable under the same conditions <the law of gravitation>.

My point(s)?

1. Belief in God (any higher being) requires Faith. Don't bother trying to prove or disprove it 100%. It's not gonna work. Also, any level of belief in the interaction of a higher being with the world or themselves in particular, also requires Faith. It's just not something you can prove on a chalk board or computer model.

2. People tend to misunderstand the use of the word theory in scientific jargon. Yes, I learned it in high school. But, not everyone is as much a nerd as me and remember the definition. It is common for people to interpret "theory of evolution" using a different definition of theory and not understand how much testing truly has gone into this. This, of course, has been a fact that special interest groups have taken full advantage of. The "it's just a theory" argument.

3. Belief in a higher being and belief in evolution/adaption are not mutually exclusive. It is now well known that the Earth is not the center of the universe (thank you Copernicus) but rather it travels around the sun as one of 10 other planets (yes, I did say 10, not 9, things have changed again). That does not change the nature of the debate about a higher being. Why should evolution? Apes and "Man" share a common ancestor, it has been highly researched with lots of proof being "dug up". You can still have Faith in a higher being and believe science can yield truths. If God created everything around us, the whole universe, and it is obvious he gave us free will, why can't things change and given the scope of time here, why cannot things change A LOT.

which gets to my last point.

4. Some people believe that the bible is the literal Word of God. I'm sorry, I cannot believe this. There have been to many translations, to many monks transcribing and to many politicians (King James) meddling with this stuff over the years. I believe that Genesis is an allegory written by someone to teach a lesson. If it was written today, I suspect it would be changed to encompass dinosaurs, and early animal life etc. Heck, if it was the hand of God helping the original writer, maybe it was included and it's just been lost over the years.

Just my 2 (or 10) cents. No attempt here to argue or offend anyone. Sorry to be so Christian centered on this post, but it is the perspective I know best.