EMTtoCorpsmen

Its a horrible thing for a small child to die, and even more terrible to witness it. However, knowing that you were trained to help and did your best should give you some small comfort. On my 2nd day of clinical during EMT school we had a 6 y.o. boy who fell out of a three story window onto concrete below. I was working in the Trauma room that day and the medics who brought him in worked him all the way in and then we resumed cpr in the trauma room. However, as i'm sure you know, cpr secondary to trauma really can't fix the leak so the doctor called it. While the nurses and doctors were crying, I walked over and started prepping him for his mother who had just arrived at the hospital. We could hear her crying from the trauma room and it broke my heart to hear her. However, I kept it together and did my job. I'm blessed with the fact that my family is all medical so I was able to talk it through with my family as well as my instructors. I also knew that that young soul is in a better place. Then, much to my delight- I helped deliver a new baby boy the next week. Life and Death. We never really know whats coming at us- the thing is just to be prepared and do our best. My heart goes out to you, it takes a certain kind of person to be in this field.

These are very funny... I won't send them to anyone else but they're silly just the same.

I saw one of the new self-lifting and lowering stretchers actually drop a patient while lowering it. The thing lowers them down nice and slow and then halfway through- drops them to the ground. I'd be happy with the standard 30lb old metal frame... so much easier and much more dependable.

Hey there guys, I'm an EMT in the US and I've just enlisted as a Hospital Corpsmen for our Navy. However, once i'm out, I'm considering moving up to canada and working in your guys medical field either as a RN or a Medic and I was wondering how the pay is up there. Not that thats the only thing controlling my thoughts but its something to consider you know. I've got citizenship though my mom so getting up there wouldn't be a problem. Thanks!

Well I think its a great idea to create a way for U.S. medics to go over to the UK, God knows that trying to apply for anything over there is hard enough and some help on the other side would be great. And its really up to that medic if they want to go over, the surroundings might be worth more than the money.