smurfwhore

That is so tacky. I hate tacky shit like that, esp. EMS tributes, slide shows with enya songs, EMS prayers, the 'if you only knew' poems. If you want everyone to call you a hero, you're going to have to become a fireman or a police officer. This crap just makes me want to hit someone. I don't see the need to romanticize or try to make people shed a tear for what we do.

The American Heart Assoc. offers an online ACLS course, not really geared toward a certification, more so as a practice type course and exam. However, it is nonetheless as challanging an exam, as you would find from a classroom course.

Because that would be an assult upon the American justice system. Allbeit flawed, a teenager with a bag of marijuana certainly does not deserve the death penalty. I believe that every sentence served should be done so in a manner to serve the citizens that were endangered by their acts. Ontop of every prison term, tack on a hundred.. or several hundred hours of guarded community service. I know a lot of city blocks that could have grafitti panted over.

I feel a better public education system geared toward Emergency Services and Public Safety, would greatly improve the image of EMS in the minds of the general public.