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Pringles, yum. Take it. Leave a can of Pepsi.

And Koalas! Gotta be careful about them marsupials...

Leave it (slightly used? erm) ...offer Phillies t-shirt

And make those kids work for it, too! However, Dust, there should be an option for those "experienced" providers to be able to go back and get more of an education. Have maybe one or two spots each year for them. But hold them to the same standards as all the rest, if not slightly higher.

These pants would probably suck if you're short, what with the ankle pockets. 5'2, and the thigh pockets on my pants are at my knees. (I like the extra pockets, since it means I can have things like extra pens physically on me)

Bah. Don't listen to Dust...Navy is where it's at! But hrm...paid medic program...do you have a job right now? There ya go.

Kiss your life goodbye. I'm in medic school right now, and it is a college-level program, one that eats up every single moment of my spare time. If I'm not at work, I'm at school. If I'm not at school, I'm in a clinical rotation in the hospital (usually the ER). If I'm not in the hospital, I'm doing my field rotation (I started early, since I can't do the massive dump that everybody else can). If I'm not in the back of the ambulance, I'm studying. My last vacation was a weekend with my family, celebrating a birthday...and that was only because I didn't have anything other than pharmacology and cardiology scheduled to study. I average 5 hours of sleep each night. (Tonight was zero...work, then straight to a rotation) I'm dumping my fiance this week, provided I can find someplace to live. My home is a mess, but that isn't my problem anymore once I get my stuff out of there. After being completely independent for the past few years, I had to ask my parents for money to help pay for this class...and now again to find someplace to live and for cash for furniture. I'd move back in with them, but they live too far away for me to make the commute to everything. But, I wouldn't trade this for the world!

Something in hospitals just tears me up...nothing serious, but annoying enough! Haven't figured out just what it is yet, but so far it has been only from extended exposure. Dropping a patient off? No problem, blow my nose when I get back to the ambulance. Spend a few hours there? Ummmmm...time to start popping the benedryl, sudafed, etc.

Another way to enlarge the text is to simply click on the page where you want to start reading. The page can be enlarged to fit a 17- or 19-inch monitor, so if you're using a small laptop, there will be a lot of scrolling. Haven't been able to try that on a computer that isn't a laptop, so I don't know if a regular monitor eliminates the scrolling (click and drag) aspect. Really don't know what to think about the article; it seemed a bit disjointed to me.

The issue has hit ABC, now... ABC news report And let me just say that Kearny's comments are beyond stupid.

Intercellular transport mechanisms. (Kidding.) Cancer? Lots of research papers out there for that, and you've even your choice of genes to look at. (BRCA is very popular, lots of research on breast cancer these days.) There's always antibiotic resistance; very big in medicine.

Dust - some schools separate their anatomy and physiology classes. Confusing as all get out, but that's how they do it. Anthony - bandwagon jump, but if you're going to take classes, finish the entire quarter and start medic school in August. I would not recommend taking microbio (this coming from somebody who focused on microbio in college... ) simply because it is four days a week and you wouldn't be able to shuffle work around it - ergo, it would be work or school. If you are interested in micro, take it after medic training. (It really is fun...but you need A+P to fully understand a bunch of it.) Class recommendations from me, then, would be anatomy 1, and the psych course. No more than that, since you work rotating 24s. The question that you have to ask yourself is would you rather be a full-time student, or a full-time worker? Anatomy II appears to be designed to be taken after anatomy I, wouldn't recommend attempting it concurrently. Speech, eh, looks fun, but if you add one of those two classes into your schedule, wouldn't you be approaching full-time student status, with 10 credits?

Yes, because hey, the cops are there...the ambulance isn't. Private sector really isn't all that much better sometimes, when it comes to EMS in Philly. The entire area needs an overhaul, between protocols, personnel (or the lack thereof), and public education.

Maz - there are EMTs and medics out there on all sorts of medications. Most companies want to know that you are healthy enough to lift patients and won't pass out on a call or become a patient yourself. As for coming over here and becoming an EMT; you will want to check with where you want to train and then ultimately work - most places will want a green card, which means that your next question is this: do you want to become a permanent US resident? I know that there are visas for education and work, but I don't think that EMT training and work is considered - well, critical isn't the word, really, but high profile/high priority enough. You will want to check with your local US consulate.

It depends on a few things. How long it has been since you were a student, study habits, how long you've been an EMT-B (habits and little things that you may have picked up and developed while working)... It is really up to the individual. I know that personally, pharmacology is kicking my butt right now, but same with everybody; and we all came in as EMT-Bs. Some of us are getting near-perfect scores, some are barely passing, some may have failed out at the last test. Motivation is another big part as to how easy or hard it will be. If, for whatever reason, you find that you aren't learning stuff in class, you will have to start teaching yourself. Same with if there is something that you don't understand - you can go to your classmates or teacher, but there is always that chance that your classmates will be just as confused, and your teacher will say "look it up," which means pulling out the textbook, going online, or asking around at work or in a hospital.