TechMedic05

Greetings! I've been lurking for a couple years now, hopefully not completely forgotten. Long and short, there's a possibility I may be moving far from home, and am hoping to scout out a few employment opportunities prior to sitting across a desk in an interview. Is there anyone lurking about who has potentially intimate knowledge of the private EMS companies operating out of the Worcester, MA area? PM's are appreciated, no need to toss dirt on everyone in public. Thanks in advance! Techmedic05

Hey, guys. I've been lurking around the forums for a year or two, since being actively involved... I'll be down in Baltimore for the conference. Hope to run into some of you guys. Tech

I agree we shouldn't talk about it, but...well, I can't talk about that here. "...I think a Hippapotomous just walked by..." 8) 8)

Cosgrojo - I'm not trying to be entirely pessimistic here, but if it's the company I -think- it is, then, my suggestion would just be that it either a - Doesn't trust it's BLS emplpoyees, or b - doesn't want to lose a BLS truck for the short time it takes to do a local transfer, etc. Just my thoughts.

Try lookin' at the "Bash BLS thread...

Pretty much right on the ball...Simplified, but on the ball for Prehospital scenarios. Except for the COPD part. They can get mostly everything they need, they just can't get rid of what they don't.

The official name is "Medic [number]" So, for radio callsign, paperwork, documentation, it's Medic 31, or whichever truck you're on. The BLS crews are all numbered, starting off with a letter designation standing for their station. ex: "Kilo-74". On the radio, numbers are typically all that's used. unfortunately, people aren't bright enough to figure out to not have a "November 31" on the same day you have a "Medic 31" on. Other than that, 'Get in the truck.'

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Overtime must be nice, though :wink:

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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. "Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer."

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There is no quick and easy answer. Anything should be somewhat supported.

Much like the rest of healthcare, EMT's are cheap, dispensible, easy to come by, and most often readily willing to practice our skills. It's not our fault they throw these things at us, it's EMT's fault's that they accept it. Many should be like Rezq304 and emtkelly, and aggrevated that others in this 'professional field' of 'medicine' would expect us to work against Hippocratic Oath, especially if done because they don't want to, or feel comfortable doing it. We don't need to constatnly be the Bastard Child of medicine.

Medication Administration is, in fact, within the scope of practice. It is that those medications are outside of protocols. Unless you count "Murder" as a Scope of Practice Item.

As far as verbal or written directives, it is still outside of scope to administer such things. I guess there's the lengthy argument of what is in and out of scope. Technically, IV Medication administration is within the scope, so it is allowed. Until protocols come up for "Lethal Injection", it shouldn't be done by EMT's. Regardless of what a Doctor orders, we are still limited by protocols. I never said any other way was perfect. Sure, mistakes happen. The idea was to remove any aspect from an EMT's hands. Isolate and deny. Isolate those who do it [to on-healthcare providers], and deny entry to any EMT who wants to. Either way, it is still a consequence of the healthcare provider. And no one can say, 100% definitively, that any patient passed over in a MCI would be dead or not. So, is it safe to say that if the EMT is providing care to someone else, that it is acceptable to contradict the Hippocratic Oath, and cause further harm by not treating a patient? I guess what I'm trying to point out is to watch your gatekeepers. Medicine, overall, will want to deny approval or isolate anything dealing with the death penalty. Why? We obviously don't want to be associated with death, and dealing death. It's dirty, people fear it, and we'd look bad. We already have enough of those issues. But change the taste to a MCI, and we openly admit that it's acceptable to allow people to die. So, What is it? I don't know. MCI is an essential tool. There's no changing that. Being active in the Death Penalty? That's something that would be incredibly easy to shove off onto someone else, and free the hands of medicine with.

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Exactly, besides, I'm sure there's more creative ways to execute people. Remove all medical components, aside from a MD to say "Yup, he's dead Jim, dead.", and hense - remove all controversy with the medical field.

I'm not quite sure irony is the appropriate word... We'll make EMS classes all about skill sets, abilities, and lighten up on the educational aspect, but if there's anything controversial about only utilizing skills, we'll say it's icky and bad, and stay away at all costs. What about triage? I understand that not all will survive, in an attempt to [theoretically] save the most amount of lives, but why make exceptions now?