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  1. I need some advise on what to do. See about a year ago my chief and I had a disagreement over something that he wasn't suppose to be doing with the EMS budget money and I questioned him about it. He really didn't appreciate me questioning him over the money. He felt as chief he could do anything with the money at any time. Me as EMS Capt. felt I had every right to question him. I would have preferred to question him in his office, with only one other person there, but the chief felt that bringing up the budget in front of the other officers I would back down. Well I stood my ground in front of everyone else and things very heated. He became extremely angry at me in front of all the officers. He stated "we will talk about this later!" I said " no I think we should talk about this now" looking to my lt. and friend for help. She acted like I was talking about the sky was blue today and just sat there. No one wanted anything to do this helping me nor talking about the budget problem. So it was dropped and we moved on to the next item of business and I knew that my job as EMS Capt was done. When the meeting of the officers were done we all left and he walked up behind me and said I want to see you in my office right now. I wish I had a tape recorder, and I wish I know then what I knew then. I walked into that office and my Lt. came in behind me. So I thought, I had a friend on my side. I couldn't have been more wrong. He stated that I could no longer be EMS Capt. that was fine by me, but the real in the gut was I could no longer run ems calls. He felt that due to my illness I was becoming too dangerous on the street. Well I was a great EMT, I trained EMT's every junior wanted to run on my night, after they passed their test they would ride on my night and I would decide when they were ready to ride by themselves. called the town ship and th man in charge of personnel stated that due to my illness I was too dangerous to run calls. Sound familiar? So when I called the town ship for my records that my chief sent to them about my medical condition, they stated that all they received from him was a phone call stating that we had an argument an officers meeting then he changed then the guy from the town ship realise that that would leave them wide open for a law suite so the twp guy called my chief. my chief and my so called friend, my Lt who is a nurse told him to change it to a medical problem. So hence a medical problem was born and the twp wanted all my medical records and any all medications that I am taking. Who said I was taking medication? Who said I had any medical problem but the nurse who just so happened to be acting as my friend and taking me to the hospital several times and listened to me as I told the hospital what I was taking. The last time she was at the hospital and she was there I lied to them about what I was taking when she was in the room and when she left I told them and explained to them why and told them not to let her know what was going on due to hippa. I didn't want her to know. I came to find out that she told some one just 3 weeks ago all this time coming to the hospital even this last time I was in ICU at the beginning of the month that if I was to run in the back of her rig that I would kill some one. She feels that she is a much better emt then me and the person that she was telling this too started laughing saying to her that she never treats at least I always treated and knew how to talk to the hospital and knew when to fly the helicopter. She needless to say go very anger with her. Back in the winter we had a very drunk man hit a tree and the steering wheel. He broke his femer and that's all she and another nurse was concerned about. But I happened to be Capt so I thank God over ruled them. I called the for the helo and they both got all over me saying that our local hospital can handle that. I told them to check his stomach that it's getting very ridig'd they totally missed that just looking at his blooding nose and that fact that he thought he could walk on his broken femur and how funny it would be and they kept up the fact we didn't need the helo. They even tried to get the chief to recall the helo. He tried but thankfully county at the time wouldn't allow the fire chief to over ride the ems chief. Then the paramedics came and over road all of them and went along with me and told them I made a good call. Shut them right up! Everytime she says I'll kill some one in her rig I remind her A) it's not her rig and remember the truck mvc and you thought we didn't need the helo? Anyway back to the Question. I go see my twp guy tomorrow, I'm taking some one with me for starters, But what should I say to this total waste of air? I want to see my file this I know. I know there is no file. The chief never had me sign anything and I know from the twp idiot that he didn't receive anything. I did get a letter from my doc though clearing me to run. my doc said that would be a like twp you can't stop me now thing. so anything I should say? Ask? Thanks for your help and for listening!!!!!!
  2. Yea Glad to Hear it Ruff!! Welcome Back!!!!! 2Wheelie
  3. Happy B-Day

    80510 hope you enjoy your day

    from 2wheelie

    (anna)

  4. I game i've been an emt for 23 yrs you can 2wheelie to the list! Really good thing you are doing! Rock on! Just send me what you need! 2wheelie
  5. I totally agree, in m fire co my officers use to start every year out saying the same thing and that they are going to change it. But I find that each year they are the biggest offenders when it comes to not wearing gear. But I'm just as guilty I wear the jacket try the helmet but I would take it off because there wasn't room. But exam gloves no I never wore exam gloves, I keep a pair of ems black gloves. But we are never dressed right for the situation. So the only thing protected right was my hands. yicks!!! that sad. I need to do better at protection myself. Thanks for the post! 2wheelie
  6. welcome tydek07

    hope you enjoy the site, you notice everyone's nice here! welcome

  7. Dispatchers have a difficult job in my humble opinion, they don't know what the patients are trying to fully say over the phone. Some people have a very hard time trying to tell people what is wrong.then add a phone between them and it's even more difficult Some people don't call it's a third party caller and then it's whole different ball game. In todays world of every one suiting everyone else the question comes up about running hot a lot. I this world of having everything right now, the dispatchers have to transfer the information they get from a couple of seconds to a couple of minutes to the EMT's and then together they need to decide if they should run hot or not. So going to a call here we run hot responding to a call every time. Then after we evaluate a patient and spend time with that patient and will continue to spend time with that patient while transporting them we decide not to run hot, no lights or sirens but since you are continuing to be with that patient and reevaluate then at any given time if they need to they can go lights and sirens at while en route. So no need to run hot on every call when with what EMT's are taught to always know whats going on with your patient! Knowing that then we don't need to run lights and siren and even air horns to every call.
  8. Thats all well and good to think that you can or want is a better word to get the volunteers out of the service of ems. but they are the back bone of ems and many communities has relied on volunteers. They take the same classes as the paid and go through the same training as paid. This is crap the way that people talk about the volunteers. Yes more work and less complaining would be the order of the day. Not all volunteers are siren hungry lazy emts. But if there was one thing to change about the ems I feel that we need to be more professional whether we are paid or volunteer. How we carry ourselves and talk and treat patients is so very important in any level of training. I don't care if you have a master if you mistreat patients all our hard work to change the view of ems will go out the window. So lets keep those sleeves rolled up and keep working to a better more professional people caring ems.
  9. hey firedoc too bad we dont live close to each other i was in the hosp myself fluid around the heart and between the lungs and ribs closasping the lung. in for over a week and then home for 2 and back in. i did everything the hosp said myself but boom back in again and they don't have a clue of why nothing was working. those steroids are horrible and make me horrible to be around. finally this weekend i could breath with it feeling like my husband was sitting on my chest. no no just sitting and crushing my with a sword in the the side. amen i can breath and i thing the roids are finally working! congrads on not smoking i know how hard that is i watch half of my family struggle with the same thing and not win. i thank god i never started so i dont have that problem. just lupus that has a terrible mind of its own. good luck doc and ill be thinking of ya!!!!
  10. Here in NJ we had 3 earthquakes just recently with in the past couple of months that I'm sure most people missed all together and we had a tornado run through my old neighborhood when i lived there and some homes were ruined. Thank god ours was missed but the local shop rite lost its roof and was shut down but the local fire co. people were in a panic. So the thought of having something happen is a very real thing even in a small town in south jersey where people think nothing will happen. Thats crazy mother nature can strike anywhere any time. So these be ready bags and stuff are a great idea and we all should take heed and take examples from them to suit our needs. I have taken a little from each quote and wrote it down to get right on it,because shameful to say we don't have on here, we did in our old house but at times it seem my illness rules this house and i need to change that and get back to the way it should be where i rule and these safety features are put in place. Thanks for the reminder how important these things are!
  11. I really liked your post about the jobs, i have seen my husband from the time we got married 23yrs ago to now he has changed jobs and path at least 3 times. always he's dream job would have been to be a fire fighter but very hard to get around here at times esp is your a white male. It just seemed like I would have a easier time getting that job then him and finally age now has made it not possible to get his dream job. Just he's recovered and has gotten a job not even close to fire fighting on a company. He is the first responder and fire fighter for his job but he's also the only one there half of the time. Day shift he has visitors and needs to be on the look out for them but on the night shift he's there all by himself no one till they come to relieve him in the am. So anything can happen to him and no one know till 6am when he's getting relieved. A very thing for me every time he is in on the night shift. We have always said some jobs no matter what will stay around. They have too. Paramedics, emts, pharamacy's and every one that works in it. Health care workers are well needed. No matter will be here to stay as we get older and people keep getting sicker then that creates job safety,! I myself know that all too well, I'm a health care worker that has been stricken down by a non curable desease and at time unfort, i need the ems system. This year it was called twice unbeknown to me. Had a seizure and diff breathing that i passed out. I then woke up at the hosp. i could have used it just recently when i couldn't breath and heart rate was 20. But pride and I'll never willingly call 911 I drove myself to hosp with violent chest pain and sob. So I can see where these jobs will stay around no matter what!
  12. This lifting into the ambulance kits are cool and all but is't lifting into the rig one of the easies things to do once the pt is loaded. For stryker it is to me, the carrying up and down the steps and such is the hard part, with half the stretcher in the rig thats the lightest and easiest on me at 53 110lbs. i do all my lifting and did like the side of the stretcher till we go the stryker but the stretcher still helps a little with the lifting up to get ready for the rig, except one thing the stryker stands pretty high and for a shorty like myself getting it all the way up to rig level is a challenge. We issue everyone one of the back braces like the guys at lowes and home depo uses to help with the back!. Some one told me that the back braces causes back injury. I haven't seen it but if anyone else knows of something I would be happy to hear about it, before some one get hurts on my account!! i also seen in hawaii the back door is all on unit and slides down like the doors on a fire truck but much big. One big back door!
  13. The problem with using it is that we leave too much open to the dispatchers. If they miss understand what the patient is saying then the out come can be devastating. Some people just aren't good at explaining whats wrong with them while others have learned how to be very good at it. This puts a lot on the dispatchers to make the right call when they already have enough resp on them and then you have the dispatchers that are like some in the ems, not for the right reasons and is playing with fire. This is just my opinion from years of experience in the ems field and human nature.
  14. There is no place in ems for someone who acts like that, makes me sick to my stomach that someone even thinks that is cool!. I agree with the everyone here and if someone does feel it's cool you should find a different line of work to do and not subject the poor people that call 911 to you and your need for control. a medic that slams the narcarn or takes his time to give the pain medication is no better a mental abuser. So lets go on a leave and try a new career. Here's to all the people in ems for right reasons and make someones worst time of their life a little less stressful!!
  15. I live in nj and the last snow fall we had like that back in 2002 we had two people who ran the ambulance and rescue assoc out in a parking lot like that and doing the same exact thing. but they didn't get off as easy. They ripped off the bumper of the rig. The under carrage of the little rescue that the town had given them 75,000 for a refurb. And it was met with just through it in the back of the veh and we'll deal with it on monday and be able to explain that we need some really good 4 x 4's for running calls. But the people dept and the fire dept and the sister co with the same equip as them got through the snow without a scracht. so have fun explaining that. no excuse even for nj! There favorite statement was it's better to ask for forgiveness after then to beg for the use of it prior to. That was never an excuse then and seeing this video reminds me of what a couple of people portray the nj ems system as something we all wanted and hoped that our system needs some real role models, for the juniors coming up I would love to be all their role models of what is expected of them as an emt. an honor to take care of someone at their worst and that person be you. step up nj and be the best!
  16. some wowa pics.... i've been there with that car cut in half and no one was hurt!!! believe that? lo ving the pics!!! never said i was normal. while i'm home recoop from stay in icu keep them coming!!!!
  17. I totally believe that that is what happened. I have seen it and when someone is holding on and you go to there bedside and tell them it's ok you can go and that's it they are gone. I have lupus and sjogrens that is a sister to lupus so a double wammy on my joints and now my orgins. I just spent a week in the hosp. Icu and then pcu. well if it wasn't for my husband being there at the worst times and just letting me know he's there and things will be ok, i don;t know things were pretty bad at times. so yesi believe those people instead of incourgaging her they drug her don't and she no longer believed in what she was doing that was working. she believed in them and there is the proof. so sorry. we need people to keep us up esp when we are sick. sick with a long term illness mostly! so keep that in mind also. as soon as someone gets a long term illness that doesn't take us fast enough that's it this world doesn't have time for us! lets all remember that everyone needs to be encouraged.
  18. Sorry to hear you were sick firedoc!!! welcome back!!! i too was just in hosp for over week several days in icu and then the heart floor in cooper pcu. fluid around my heart and lungs, and now need to go get biopsey on lymphs. i got over 70% change of being lymph now they did cap scan and several just lite up. having lupus has made things very complicated. keep me in your thoughts all!
  19. happy birthday marcusmay!
  20. happy birthday!

    enjoy marcusmay!!!

  21. sporty- I'm with you. I don't know what i would have done but let me tell you this you did what I feel you were led to do. There was an exchange that no matter what call you would have taken that day wouldn't have touched you or her nearly as much. To me it was appropriate and i believe you were put there that day just for that lady. you moved me with your story. Keep up the good work!
  22. Hi im 2wheelinemt I have been with emt city for awhile but everything is changed and i'm lost. So I thought i'd say hi. I'v been involved in ems / rescue for 23 years. I love it everything trauma, ems, and and anything to help the public understand to help themselves or help ems / fire when we come knocking or they call 911. I started the vials for life over 10 yrs ago when no one else had anything like it. Since i was an cpr instr i wanted all my neighbors to learn cpr free by me! I'll go to my grave helping my neighbor no matter what it is. so hi to all and know my love and desire run deep with certain things involving ems /trauma and helping my fellow man!
  23. I like the idea of wearing the bracelet whether just that is valid or not. It gets you to remember for the dnr paper if you see that bracelet. We like to keep everything the same or try and think how it will work. We don't know, just because one state it worked one way doesn't mean it will work that way in a different state. That is what NJ suffers form let all the other states make the mistakes and we'll just sit here and say see I told you so! Crazy stuff. We haven't moved forward in years because of that. Hek we can even make up our minds if we want to continue giving the Natl emt test instead of just the state test. ugh! Everything has to be soo hard, Not! Everyone makes mistakes and here we are waiting till there are no more mistakes from the other states, well we have a long long time, Because even the wonderful docs make mistakes. Were all human!
  24. [iam sorry but I had to jump here on th one comment that was made about who would you rather have put a tube in? Well I was in he hosp for the past two weeks and the so called peope standing around that hae just ONE job to do intead of 5 different skills, well they messed up big time. I was getting a line in the neck and they totally blew it and sent a bleed into my neck and what the docs no thought to be a bleed into my chest. So whom is ready for what want to know?
  25. [seat belts save lives. yes maybe there be one out there that if they weren't wearing a seatbelt they would be alive. But in my past 22 yrs experience I have seen first hand that seatbelt save lives no doubt. On a personal not I was involved in a head-on collision and that seatbelt saved me. Yes the engine came in and broke my leg and trapped me but if I didn't have it one I would be dead. My car hit a car head-on and them spun 3 more times I would have been killed from that. So yes I even wear it when driving and sitting in passenger seat of ambulance.
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