quint

Dude I would search google and some of the FF forums before you make THAT leap!!! :shock:

go to Watchdesk

check out their forum, the site is down for awhile so you will have to wait

i just have to remember.............

:twisted: Take it as I love being on top! :twisted:

Slow and ON TOP!!! :twisted:

QUINT

SLOW IS GOOD

:3some:

So I went to the trouble of trying to be the last post and make it good.........but like my momma always said I'm alittle slow! :tongue3:

suck-up

bacon :wink:

Does a shirt negate "naked"?

TPBM has traumatic memories of an ice cream truck driver

I'm not bitter, but let's talk. Don't come out swinging :-D

Looks like the swingin's already been had :roll:

Only because I am not a morning person, or is it that I passed out in my clothes? Hence making them PJ's???

Or is it because the person below me was just looking at internet porn?

Good Luck AngryPenguin, you have a lot of work ahead of you no matter what EMS road you take. I will give you a little advice, never stop advancing your knowledge in this field, regardless if you move to ALS or not.

Good post Coach! =D> I started as a volunteer, went paid as an EMT now I am on a paid fire department, don't see the connection to being a whacker (I believe that to be an individual not a status issue)

I often sit back and wonder which cocktail I can make with the medics drugs that won't show in the coroners report. um......... no really, I love my medics honest!! :bootyshake:

88+22=????

man I wish I was that cool!!! dude if you are gonna bash do it with class!

Asys, mine was in fun, all my medic bashing is in fun! I just didn't realize you had posted the medic one when I clicked on the basic one, but I DID give you credit atleast for the ideas LOL

And Canadian medics dual post, what's your point??

TOP TEN SIGNS YOU'RE WORKING WITH A WANNABE SUPERHERO EMT-Paramedic MORON

10. Can dish out jokes, but can not take them.

9. He reminds you constantly of how Basics are the subordinate (usually without provocation and without proper employee supervision training).

8. The wraparound sunglasses never come off, even on cloudy days, indoors, or on moonless nights in the middle of the forest. (My own experience was a couple of Medics doing this)

7. Constantly hovering over patients due to lack of "sticks" needed for recert.

6. The police officers on scene really don't care how many thousands of hours of training he has, but will humor him and listen anyways.

5. Has to make up as many excuses as possible why he could not perfom intubation or could not get a stick.

4. He spends more money on stethoscopes, PDA's, and EMS magazine subscriptions then he has on shampoo, toothpaste and deodorant in the past five years.

3. Patients suddenly "feel much better" when they arrive at definitive care.

2. Patients are blissfully unaware that he has his panties in a permanent bunch.

1. He gets really, really, really, angry when you tell him "I'll drive!"

***Credit given to asys for providing a "working foundation" of ideas to post this!!

I knew you would.........it's me new t-shirt

"Why do men have nipples? What's with toes? Can't you get rid of Pat Robertson?"

=D>

oh poop, now i hear thunder

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At this point, I am talking strictly about the funding issue, which is not specifically what you started the topic about. You may have found nothing about plans to elevate rural EMS in your search (though I can't imagine why not), but there is plenty of discussion here about funding. Try a different search.

Why is it that everybody who starts a discussion that has been covered a billion times in the past thinks that their topic is somehow more important than all the previous topics? Why is it that they don't understand the simple concept that nobody likes repeating themselves like a broken record just because somebody else wasn't listening the first ten times?

It's just that on this particular subject, you're annoying me with the repetition and inability or refusal to understand the answers. You aggravate me. I aggravate you. It happens. It's not personal. No harm done. Move on.

Dust, I started this as a subject of bridging a gap that I see about to happen if what you, Rid, and other medics get what you want. That problem being rural EMS, the fact that funding got brought up as a side bar should not lessen the effect of the thread. The only thing that lessens this thread is when you go to a thread about "medic assistant" education and then come in here and rip on this one because some questions that are unrelated to the original post are posed! Why is it that if something directly connected is brought up it is then a repeat that should be moved from a current discussion and placed elsewhere, so you have to make two posts when you could easily make one in one thread covering a subject that is multi faceted?

I'm sorry but to say everything is so simple is an ignorant comment, when you as an educated person should know that this is a very dynamic situation. Anytime you talk about increasing wages and raising taxes you know you are in for an uphill battle.

And no I don't feel my topic is important just because I typed it, I let that solve itself with the quality posts that appear.

Quint, read previous discussions. This has all been covered ad infinitum.

Funding is not a problem.

Parents' wallets don't get raped to send their kids to school, yet we manage to fun hundreds of times more degreed teachers than we do paid paramedics. You really don't think they can do the same for EMS? Use your imagination if you're too lazy to search the forum.

Dust if YOU had read the first post there was an invite for YOU to point out if this had been covered, I looked found nothing that I thought this would go under, somebody else pointed out posts that were not even close.

You have made statements about covering topics again and again when it comes to education, but yet I see you participating in recurring discussions on MI's, MVA's and others of the like that have been covered "ad infinitum".

Why is it when somebody "lesser" than you asks something they become "lazy" or stupid? (you have made none of these comments on the "Medics Assistant" thread, and it deals with education issues. Is it because your "peers" started the discussion?) Why bash on them? You show that you are not part of the solution by continually running others into the ground!

I agree with the fact that we need to advance, but my question is how to best do it. Yes I may seem to the "educated" as not "getting it", but I am far from the thought that seems to prevail around here that money is easy to get/find/and have! You have the education solutions, I will give you that. You have the nationalized system, I will give you that. You have everybody getting paid, YAY! But who will pay for all of this, until I see a solution that doesn't involve raping the patients wallet I will continue to look for less "obvious" solutions. So until then I will remain the one who just doesn't "get it"!