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  1. Hey guys I am new to the board and I wil be graduating medic school in the summer and I just wanted to know about private amb. companies in Ny. I am planning to relocate in the near future to work for one of the companis in one of the 5 Boroughs up there. Are their any good companies to work for, do they offer good benefits, union, good pay, flexible scheduling etc. I also wouldn't also mind working in the outskirts of the city to. I heard about a couple so far Transcare, and Citiwide ambulance, does anybody know if there good companies. All information is greatly appreciated. :mellow:

    DONT GO TO TRAS-SCARE...THE WORST COMPANY EVER!!!!!!!!

  • Two Emergency Medical Service ambulance workers face disciplinary action because they waited for sandwiches in a Bronx delicatessen before responding to a report that a man was suffering a heart attack in a church one block away, officials said yesterday.

    Two Emergency Medical Service ambulance workers face disciplinary action because they waited for sandwiches in a Bronx delicatessen before responding to a report that a man was suffering a heart attack in a church one block away, officials said yesterday.

    The heart attack victim, Anthony Solla, 68 years old, died Wednesday at North Central Bronx Hospital.

    ''We found that the crew failed to respond immediately to the request,'' said James Kerr, director of the Emergency Medical Service. ''Our procedures require that they respond immediately.''

    Mr. Kerr said he did not know whether the delay contributed to the victim's death, but insisted that ''even if the delay did not figure in the patient's demise the crew still failed to follow our procedure.'' On Lunch Break

    Mr. Solla suffered the attack at 8:30 P.M. Wednesday in a first-floor meeting room of the Church of the Mediator, at Kingsbridge Avenue and 231st Street in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, the authorities said. Friends of Mr. Solla who found the two ambulance crew members in the delicatessen and asked for assistance said the two responded that they were on a lunch break.

    ''It seems that they waited for their sandwiches before calling the dispatcher,'' Mr. Kerr said in a telephone interview.

    The preliminary investigation determined that the two paramedics, whose names have not been released, remained in the store for four minutes, he said, before leaving and calling the dispatcher. It took seven more minutes for them to get to the church, one block away.

    Under E.M.S. regulations, Mr. Kerr said, the two should have left the delicatessen immediately and called the ambulance dispatcher while en route.

    The paramedics have been reassigned to office duties pending a disciplinary hearing, Mr. Kerr said. They face possible suspension or dismissal.

    Mr. Kerr said one had joined the Emergency Medical Service in 1984 and the other in 1985.

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...751C0A96E948260

  • You want to put your skills to a test?Why don't you do a couple of long distance jobs with premature babys that need vents and hart monitoring.

    Just imagine your self in the back of the bus.

    Just you and the baby for the next 5 hours.

    Every pot hole you hit on your way to the hospital will make you vomit with fear!

  • How many times have you been in your truck on a scene and heard the most ridiculous thing and wish you had it on tape. here are some of the craziest!

    (1)

    Dispatcher: [unit] 7xx.

    Unit: 7xx go [ahead].

    Dispatcher: Respond over to xxxx xxxxx street for the swollen penis.

    Unit 7xx: (keys the mic but is laughing so hard he can't talk. His partner, not realising the mic was on, said:) what the f*ck?

    (Of course my idiotic partner had to put in her twe cents and said "no cussing on the radio." But I was just gonna die laughing!)

    (2)

    EMT: Central Send us medics for an AMS

    Central: Aren't you down the block from ######## Hospital

    EMT: Yeah

    Central: So take the Pt to the hospital

    Few min later EMT:are we gonna get medics?

    Central: PUSH THE COT ACROSS THE STREET TO THE HOSPITAL

    EMT: Uhhhhhhh, OK

    (3)

    Supervisor: What's everyone's status? (After a second call)

    Unit 1: I'm clear

    Unit 2: I'm clear too

    Supervisor: We're all clear!

    Unit 1: PUSH TO SHOCK! PUSH TO SHOCK!

    (4)

    Unit1: There is no one answering can you try the callback

    Dispatch: are you at the apartment door or the building door

    Unit1: the apartment door.

    Dispatch: Standby.. oh wait the text says she can't come to the door, I'll have to send you resources for entry.

    Unit1: That's great, now you notice, what do we do in the mean time?

    Unknown Unit: Huff and Puff and blow the door down!!!

    (5)

    Dispatch: EMS 125, respond for an assault, outside the Have A Nice Day Cafe

    (6)

    49D: Conditions 49 (the supervisor) Just got hit by a car we need another conditions supervisor!

    Dispatch: Is the supervisor all right?

    49D: 10-5 (repeat)

    Dispatch: do you need another bus for the supervisor?

    49D: Oh yeah I guess so. (can you feel the love)?

    (7)

    54V: Central put us down mechanical at XXX and XXX, the bus won't go

    Central: 10-4 54Y and 47A respond to 54V job.

    1 min later: 54V: Central be advised the Pt came to us, we are treating at location of breakdown.

    Central: 47A and 54Y new location is XXX and XXX in 54V

    47A: 10-4 We are pulling up behind 54V now.

    54V: cancel 54Y we will transport in 47A

    After call: 54V: 54V comming out of hosp ## being escorted back to our broken down junkheap via 47A

    Central: 10-5 (repeate)

    54V: comming out of hosp## hitching a ride back to our broken bus via 47A

    Central: (laughing) 10-4

    (Cool

    Dispatcher: Unit 69

    Unit: 69

    Dispatcher: Unit 69 report to 123rd and Elm Code 4 (transfer)

    Unit: 10-60 (more info)

    Dispatcher: 123rd and Elm, There is a schizophrenic man at the pay phone of Quicktrip, who ran out of his meds and dose not have enuff money to pay for a cab so he called us and wants a ride to the hospital so he can pick them up.

    Unit: (EMT Laughting in background) Paramedic: 10-4 in route (mic still keyed) Oh-Goodie our first call of the evening.

    (9)

    Mather hosp we are enroute to your facility with 2 patients, the first complaining of resp distress, and psychiatric emergency, the 2nd c/o psychiatric emergency, our ETA...

    Not soon enough.. er 5 min.

    (10)

    ALS Provider: The patient Awoke Unresponsive.

    +++++++++++THE REST++++++++++

    ALS Provider:Can I give an ventolin updraft?

    ALS Provider:Can I give thiamin IM

    MC: Why?

    ALS Provider: I don't know but you can give it IM right?

    MC(for an RMA): Who called you?

    EMT: Medcom

    ALS Provider:What should I do with this patient?

    ALS Provider: The patient is unconscious

    MC: Does he have a pulse?

    ALS Provider:No

    MC: Are you doing CPR?

    ALS Provider:No should I

    EMT (to ALS Provider): he said to give an epipeane and atroephine.

  • How many times have you been in your truck on a scene and heard the most ridiculous thing and wish you had it on tape. here are some of the craziest!

    (1)

    Dispatcher: [unit] 7xx.

    Unit: 7xx go [ahead].

    Dispatcher: Respond over to xxxx xxxxx street for the swollen penis.

    Unit 7xx: (keys the mic but is laughing so hard he can't talk. His partner, not realising the mic was on, said:) what the f*ck?

    (Of course my idiotic partner had to put in her twe cents and said "no cussing on the radio." But I was just gonna die laughing!)

    (2)

    EMT: Central Send us medics for an AMS

    Central: Aren't you down the block from ######## Hospital

    EMT: Yeah

    Central: So take the Pt to the hospital

    Few min later EMT:are we gonna get medics?

    Central: PUSH THE COT ACROSS THE STREET TO THE HOSPITAL

    EMT: Uhhhhhhh, OK

    (3)

    Supervisor: What's everyone's status? (After a second call)

    Unit 1: I'm clear

    Unit 2: I'm clear too

    Supervisor: We're all clear!

    Unit 1: PUSH TO SHOCK! PUSH TO SHOCK!

    (4)

    Unit1: There is no one answering can you try the callback

    Dispatch: are you at the apartment door or the building door

    Unit1: the apartment door.

    Dispatch: Standby.. oh wait the text says she can't come to the door, I'll have to send you resources for entry.

    Unit1: That's great, now you notice, what do we do in the mean time?

    Unknown Unit: Huff and Puff and blow the door down!!!

    (5)

    Dispatch: EMS 125, respond for an assault, outside the Have A Nice Day Cafe

    (6)

    49D: Conditions 49 (the supervisor) Just got hit by a car we need another conditions supervisor!

    Dispatch: Is the supervisor all right?

    49D: 10-5 (repeat)

    Dispatch: do you need another bus for the supervisor?

    49D: Oh yeah I guess so. (can you feel the love)?

    (7)

    54V: Central put us down mechanical at XXX and XXX, the bus won't go

    Central: 10-4 54Y and 47A respond to 54V job.

    1 min later: 54V: Central be advised the Pt came to us, we are treating at location of breakdown.

    Central: 47A and 54Y new location is XXX and XXX in 54V

    47A: 10-4 We are pulling up behind 54V now.

    54V: cancel 54Y we will transport in 47A

    After call: 54V: 54V comming out of hosp ## being escorted back to our broken down junkheap via 47A

    Central: 10-5 (repeate)

    54V: comming out of hosp## hitching a ride back to our broken bus via 47A

    Central: (laughing) 10-4

    (8)

    Dispatcher: Unit 69

    Unit: 69

    Dispatcher: Unit 69 report to 123rd and Elm Code 4 (transfer)

    Unit: 10-60 (more info)

    Dispatcher: 123rd and Elm, There is a schizophrenic man at the pay phone of Quicktrip, who ran out of his meds and dose not have enuff money to pay for a cab so he called us and wants a ride to the hospital so he can pick them up.

    Unit: (EMT Laughting in background) Paramedic: 10-4 in route (mic still keyed) Oh-Goodie our first call of the evening.

    (9)

    Mather hosp we are enroute to your facility with 2 patients, the first complaining of resp distress, and psychiatric emergency, the 2nd c/o psychiatric emergency, our ETA...

    Not soon enough.. er 5 min.

    (10)

    ALS Provider: The patient Awoke Unresponsive.

    +++++++++++THE REST++++++++++

    ALS Provider:Can I give an ventolin updraft?

    ALS Provider:Can I give thiamin IM

    MC: Why?

    ALS Provider: I don't know but you can give it IM right?

    MC(for an RMA): Who called you?

    EMT: Medcom

    ALS Provider:What should I do with this patient?

    MC(on a RMA):Do you think this patient should be seen.

    EMT:UH..........

    ALS Provider: The patient is unconscious

    MC: Does he have a pulse?

    ALS Provider:No

    MC: Are you doing CPR?

    ALS Provider:No should I

    EMT (to ALS Provider): he said to give an epipeane and atroephine.

  • May 6, 2007 -- The two EMTs who resigned in disgrace after secretly videotaping patients for their own amusement could lose their state certification.

    The state Department of Health says it wants more information on the alleged misconduct of David Campbell and Kevin Edell.

    "The department is very concerned that this incident may have violated patients' rights," said spokesman Jeffrey Hammond.

    "We've informed the state," FDNY spokesman Frank Gribbon said late Friday.

    The state regulates emergency medical technicians, inspects ambulance services and investigates complaints. Rules require EMTs to "at all times maintain the confidentiality of information about the names, treatment and conditions of patients."

    The state also can strip an EMT of certification for deceit, incompetence or patient abuse. Discipline can range from a reprimand to suspension or revocation, and fines. Unless the state bars them, Campbell and Edell, who resigned from the FDNY under threat of termination, can still practice as EMTs elsewhere, officials said.

    John Hassett, executive director of the Nassau Regional EMS Council, said Campbell can continue to serve as a volunteer in the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department on Long Island if he remains certified.

  • One of my partners is transgender.Sounds like a women looks like a women but can pick up a 200 pound tank of O/2.

    The only thing that matters to me is that she/he has skills in a hairy situation.If he/she doesnt care that Im strait I don't

    care that he's gay.I feel that Im very lucky to work with she/he.....Im getting an education on hormone therapy and the effects on the male body.

  • I don't know if it's tradition but.....I was put in one of the worst parts of the Bronx.Hart attacks back to back...baby delivers back to back super violent psychs back to back.....and that was my first day.9 jobs in my first day 31 jobs my first week.I heard this over the nextel that week "yah gotta be kiddin he still be kickin with you guys.....go white boy"My partner said it was not meant as a dis.....he was surprised that I could tuff it in the ghetto with them.I will never know but it felt like a traditional hazing.

  • It's a little early but I started getting some links together for you guys.

    This is not just for NYC.If you have links for you area I will put them up.

    If you work in NYC the hospitals will have all able body patients out in

    front of the ambulance bays giving out sponge baths and hair cuts !

    http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/pr/2003/051203_1703.shtml

    http://www.ncemsf.org/about/publications/emsweek/

    http://www.nycremsco.org/news.asp?intCateg...ntArticleID=247

    http://www.emsbikeride.org/

    http://www.emsdinner.com/

    http://www.emi-lvh.com/

    (Blue/Orange/Blue)Empire state building colors for EMS week

    http://www.esbnyc.com/tourism/tourism_ligh...ule_current.cfm

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