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Call me Nuts, but would you believe you can actually get a medical air evac for as low as $50 -IF: 1. You purchase a annual membership for $50 from Air Evac Life Team, and 2. You have no healthcare insurance, no medicare, no medicaid, and 3. It is truly a life threatening transport Now having said that, if you do have insurance, care or caid, it still only costs you the $50 out of pocket, but they will bill your insurance and accept what your carrier pays. Includes the Pilot, one R,N, and paramedic

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Ruff, I agree 100% I might add keep off your freaking cell phone while driving the truck code three or I WILL THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW!

FTD - Fixing To Die Usually associated with a stubbed toe, headache for past two days, or any similiar call when the patient feels immediate ambulance transport is necessary!

It's NOT a hefty ambulance bill if she had caid - didn't cost her a dime!

Responded to a call by a man requesting we help his wife back into bed. She was non-breathing, mottled, and cold! He said he had difficulty waking her sometimes.

Life threatening = running hot everything else = not! A good EMT should be able to recognize the difference in most cases.

I am not necessarily against unions, although I prefer to negoiate my causes, problems, salary, etc,. with my manager - rather than paying someone to do it. Yes I do realize there are some real blood sucking (money grubbing) services out there, but my service is small, less than 20 employees, county owned, tax supported and not for profit.

Tattomama Another great book I would recommend, was wriiten by a gentleman I personally know named Bob Page NREMT-P who has actually worked in EMS - 12 Lead ECG Interpertation for the Acute Care Provider. It is available on Amazon!

Sounds like a very logical reason to me.

Sorry I was addressing a completley different issue, don't understand how my earlier post ended up here. I am on occasion absent minded, but usually not that bad!

Most medical facilities require photo ID to be worn by their employees, perhaps you can make an arrangement with one to do photo ID's for your volunteer service. Most have their own computer software and can easily make an ID in whatever format you want. I do carry a license in my wallet, but have never been asked to present it for any reason, other than copying for an employer or renewing my license. Sounds like people there are too anal requesting to see your license or maybe too trusting here. Anyways, Good Luck!

I am not necessarily against unions, although I prefer to negoiate my causes, problems, salary, etc,. with my manager - rather than paying someone to do it. Yes I do realize there are some real blood sucking (money grubbing) services out there, but my service is small, less than 20 employees, county owned, tax supported and not for profit.

Being a paramedic, doctor, or dog catcher would not influence my vote. The job of being the President is probably the hardest job in the world and I base my vote on their views. I am probably on the opposite end of the political spectrum of most EMS Professionals.

On legit runs we refer to it as the truck. If we have a loaner because one of ours is in the shop we usually call it POS and from my banner below you can see how we refer to it at other times!

Sorry, our service would not hire you! Good Luck!

I know everyone has heard something similar to this before, BUT: In 23 years of EMS I have honestly, only worked ONE accident where I had to unbuckle a dead person _ seat belts save lives! What kind of message are we sending to our families and communities if we refuse to wear them! It is irresponsible for us not to be wearing them. I wonder if these guys skip wearing gloves during patient contact!

Nope, idiot #2 here! Don't get me wrong I love music, in fact Black Betty is one of my favorites, but I usually have to concentrate keeping my partners off their frigging cell phone when they are driving code 3.

Unfortunately, Ebaum enjoys the same first amendment rights as the person who splatters shit on a painting of Christ and calls it art! Fortunately, It's the same first amendment rights that allow me to call him a dumb-ass, with no respect for human life and values!

The service I work for gives us two set days per week. We have very little turn over of employees. Part timers are utilized to fill open spots if available and if not, we can work the extra hours if we choose to. Presently I work only Thursday and Friday - no weekends. Newest employess usually get stuck with the crapiest shifts until an opening is available. I would definitely say our scheduling caters to the FT employee and not the PT employee. I think if PT employees were scheduled first it would cause a lot of resentment by FT staff. Sounds like with the scheduling system you mentioned, that they are actually working around a Part time employees, fulltime job somwhere else!

I'm from Missouri and I can't imagine the Missouri Unit of EMS ever signing off on this!

I also have never heard of Morse Code being used in EMS. I tried several internet searches on the subject and came up empty, although there were several instances in which Emergency Management had used it.

Good point, I stand corrected! I just find this inconceivable that anyone would even toss this idea around.

I agree 100% - it's not within our scope of practice and we all better hope it never is. Hire Professional Hangmen!

GA Sorry, I didn't misunderstand what was reported. I just included the links so people could read the articles for informational purposes. I was not advocating there is a vaccine, just reporting what I read.