Asysin2leads

See, all the media ever does is report the negative. They don't mention that there was a 100% pass rate on the grueling "Kitten in a tree" scenario.

Mom? Is that you?

Oh, I'll still be sticking around here. Its not like I have a life or something, lol.

To all my friends here on EMTCity, This is my announcement that today, September 15th, 2008, Asysin2leads, paramedic, Hazmat medical technician, and terrorizer of supervisors and students alike, has had his leave approved and for the first time in 10 years, will not be working as an EMT or paramedic, not counting vacations, sick leave, and really bad hangovers. I now have until 2011 to figure out if I want to come back to my current position or find something better to do. Part of the reason I am going on leave is my upcoming marriage. To answer your questions, she is far more sweet and kind than I deserve, and has a real desire to see me not try to do myself in day after day. Plus the fact we already have a daughter together kind of seals the deal. I'll still be around here and add my $.02 in when its warranted, but for a little while, given that I will not be working on one, I hope to not see any ambulances anywhere around me.

I get a little annoyed when people use the analogy of BSN and PhD in nursing and PA to MD. There is a huge difference here in educational standards. What people don't realize is that when people like me say that paramedic should be the only standard of care for EMS, its not because I'm saying that everybody should strive for the highest level possible, although ambition is still a good thing, its because I believe that the level of training and education for a paramedic only starts to scratch the surface of what is needed to provide quality care to the critically ill and injured. So, I reiterate my point that I believe everyone should be at the bare minimum level if they are responding to a 911 call. My opinion.

Rich, I think a more appropriate title for this would be "EMT and all around good guy knifed by shitbag coward."

Oh, right Dust, I throw a 17 year old Michelle Trachtenberg look alike at you who thinks there is nothing cooler in the world than a Lifepak 12 and you'll go "Oh, Ick, get me a real woman." Please. You'll be practicing intubation techniques until you run out of Surgiliube with her and you know it, just like the rest of us.

I think the worst part is that most of the people on this site who have been in the business long enough will read my post, laugh, and then think "You know, he has a point." And I mean some of you women too! You know who you are!

Because there is a lot of sex in EMS, and if we can't legally have sex with you, and you are not old enough to get you drunk to facilitate the sex, than you are not an adult in our eyes. Nothing ruins a good game of "Drunken Make Out With the Rookie" like a couple of federal charges. 16 will get you 20, brother.

Guys, don't even bother with paramistress. We've had her type before and we'll have it again. How many times will we have some vollie (and they are ALWAYS from NJ, I tell you) come in here beating their chest, priding themselves on their own ignorance before we realize you just can't talk to these people? There are two types of EMS workers in New Jersey. Those who realize how much it sucks, and move, and those who stick their heads in the sand and sing the theme to Third Watch so they can't hear other people's rational arguments. I know plenty of people in the former and she is just another one of the latter. Its really no use. But for what its worth, I'd say tales of elderly people waiting 20 minutes for ALS and being internally defibrillated over 300 times while brave NJ volunteers sit by and watch helpless does a lot more to ruin EMS' reputation than "not supporting our own." And also for the record, I do NOT count someone who refuses to educate themselves or work to support the field they work in as "one of my own," because for the last 10 years or so I've been doing just that. You're not like me, and I don't support you. I'll put on my class A and say nice things about you at your funeral, sure, but just because you wear a patch similar to mine does not make you my brother, my colleague, or even my friend. And if I am sounding a bit harsher than usual it has to do with the fact that we are about 3 hours away from the anniversary of one of the worst days of my life, and the only thing that makes it even worse is to know that there are families of my true colleagues who will be suffering tomorrow and everyday like it, because their loved ones did not receive the same pay or benefits of others, and that is in part of people who were willing to do their job for free.

Let's get that Palin woman in there to boost morale. I hear she can really put out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the people who stay won't be rescued. Uh huh. People drowning in flood waters during the RNC? I don't think so. Poor, poor, Coast Guard et. al, risking their lives for the assholes who stayed behind.

As a firefighter, you'd think he'd know that. #-o

This time they locked the doors to the Superdome. Dammit, people may die, but them scumbags ain't gonna mess up the Superbowl! Where's Brownie when you need him?

Stayed with his partner, f*** everyone else. Why is that even a question? Or do you cats in Colorado just leave each other to die in the continued quest for personal glory and possible CNN coverage?

Hatzolah is a special group of people. Just like any vollie group they have the good and the bad. People have to not put prejudice upon them just because they dress differently, keep to themselves, and only pick up people of their own religion. In the same way, Hatzolah needs to recognize that if you dress differently, keep to yourself, and only pick up people of a certain religion, some unenlightened people might maybe just get a low opinion about you. If you ever deal with Hatzolah, its best not to mention the Crown Heights riots around them if they are discussing discrimination.

My answer is to go the extra mile for your significant other. Remember that your job takes more of a toll on them than anybody, and if you love them, you'll put their feelings before you're own. That means maybe having to suck up your moodiness and on those days you just want to crawl into bed and hide under the covers, making the extra effort to get up and cook them breakfast instead. And if at the end of the week you can't do all the things your job requires of you and be there for the person who is in your life, then you either need to end your relationship or find a job that allows you to do both. Because people may understand your moodiness and when you had a bad day, but if you have a bad day every day, then its time to find something else to do.

He wasn't a soldier. He was a firefighter. God bless him and his family.

The fact that there are non-intoxicated people, right now, in America, debating whether you can catch a bullet in your teeth or not says much.

Yes he was discharged a fortnight later after losing several stone in weight to the vapors.

I thought you were talking about some equivalent of the CCRB, or Civilian Complain Review Board. CCRB, making you regret saving someone's life since 1983.

Let's call him up and tell him to go f--- himself.

If you mean "keeping a low profile" then yes. If you mean dressing like 50 cent and flashing gang signs, then by all means, no.

Rich, I'm pretty sure that if a bail enforcement officer engaged in activities that delayed or hindered rendering medical care, he could be held liable. However, I just wonder if somewhere on the fine print of a bail bond agreement it gives the bail bonds agency or its agencies some sort of power of attorney over the bailee. Yes, surprise, surprise, I've never been arrested so I don't know the bail process.

You know, I'm kind of lost here. I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert on the ghetto. I've worked my little slice of East Harlem for several months now, and have done tours (as in tour I, tour II, tour III, not tour of duty in Southeast Asia tour) in the South Bronx and Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, but, in dealing with the residents, I've always gotten the impression that easiest way to get offed is to be an aggressive redneck armed to the teeth and demanding to know where people's family members are. There is something I am really missing here. Don't be frontin', yo.