Richard B the EMT

OK, so I am not going to look up, agan, the Who's On First routine.

This begins to sound like an Abbot and Costello routine. "Take this package over to Mel's house. It's for Mel to Hide". "What is it?" "Formaldehyde." "But what is it?" "Formaldehyde. For Mel to hide."

A bickering married couple was accosted by a gun wielding robber. He told the couple, "Your money or your live!" The husband started walking away. "Where the hell do you think you're going? I said 'Your money or your life!'" snarled the gunman The husband responded, "I thought you said 'Your money or your wife.'"

Continuing off topic, one of the female voices of "The Archies" was the late Ellie Greenwich, composer and lead singer of the song "(That's when I fell for) The Leader of the Pack".

Timmy, are you referring to those 2 rodeos you mentioned, a bit more than a year ago, on a different string?

Paramedic ALS crews in NYC go in with a "Jump Kit", Defibrillator, Drug Bag, O2 Bag, and, unless we know we have the space to bring the cot in, the carry chair.

We always talk about making things idiot proof, then they keep improving the model of idiots.

While this is not me, it is one of my most asked for songs, when I pick up my guitar.

We keep the Mark 2 kits on the trucks, and do not open therm (sealed number tags), unless and until ordered by a "General Order" from OLMC at the MCI.

Rumormill has it, FDNY might go this route, unconfirmed

Single role, as Fire Fighters fight fire (and effect rescues), and Paramedics (and EMTs) handle and treat patients. Neither does both Fire Fighting, and patient care. Related: LEO based EMS, we don't arrest them, we just reverse Cardiac Arrests (Well, I thought that was funny, anyway).

Sure didn't see that one coming.

I turned over my first edition Orange and Yellow books to Chief J P Martin, FDNY EMS Command, who was then the "curator" of the FDNY EMS "Museum", at the FDNY EMSC Academy at Fort Totten, Bayside, Queens County, NY, as well as the academy commandant. As of my last visit to the museum's room, the book had not been added, and the room seems to have fallen into a state of some disrepair. As Chief Martin is no longer the Commandant there, I won't fault him.

I see that as being across the boards, no matter which union, IAFF, Teamsters, AFSCME, or any other that I don't immediately know off hand.

RobertsFiction, as to the medical aspects of the professions of EMTs and Paramedics, some here have told you to become one yourself. Short of that, might I suggest you invest in 3 of our training textbooks for research on what we do, and get the latest edition of the first 2, Emergency Care (Brady), Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons), and Emergency Care in the Streets (Carolyn). Some here a while call the Brady and AAOS books, the Yellow and the Orange books, respectively. I apologise for the attacks on you, as some of us try compartmentalizing themselves by not bringing home the bad, or even the good, calls they did on any particular day, and what they do here is, for some, a release by telling others what not to do, or the inverse. Others may have assisted someone in writing a story, and gotten burned by the author, some might be as they stated, not wanting association with a bad storyline (I don't know you, obviously, so I cannot claim what quality stories you do or do not write). Others might be writer wannabees (myself included), and don't want their "war stories" stolen and copyrighted away from them (NOT nessesarily me). You've read reference to "Mother, Juggs and Speed", here. Some see it as humor, a bit at our expense, others see it as an attack. Then, there's "Bringing out the Dead", written by a Paramedic as a way of self expression, as suggested by his psychietrist, due to "issues" he was then dealing with.

If you remembered where you put things, you wouldn't lose them.

By the sounds of it, the patient must have been hanging by a thread, and it broke, unavoidably, on your watch. Won't specify, but been there, done that.

Just thinking out loud, but have you seen a massage therapist? Also, I totally forgot what RICE is, the E is Elevate?

Where did you last see this lost game, and where do you normally keep it?

For 38 years, but strictly as a joke, that has always been the "suggested" treatment for nosebleeds for those in my classes.

Perhaps I need glasses, took me over 90 seconds.

I seem to recall it fell from favor, as personnel would use the procedure on an arm they had just put large bore IVs into, defeating the reason for the IV.

And there's people who believe the moon landings were faked on a soundstage somewhere, because the moon is actually made of Cheese (gorganzola?).

Historically, that is a bit of a misstatement. In New Amsterdam, what would over the centuries evolve into New York City, they had the "Rattle Watch", a group who would do a security patrol at night. Primary function: if they found a fire, they would sound a "Rattle", a kind of noisemaker, to sound the alarm for all the neighbors to respond to form bucket "brigades" to throw water onto the fires. As for EMS in the FDNY, I always say, the Fire guys do their job, me and my EMSers do our job, and both of us do those respective jobs well! That must be why the guys from Engine 265/Ladder 121 seem to like me, in the first combined FD/EMS "House" in the city, as I have made that statement in their presence numerous times.

Whatever you're going to do, just know that Civilian and Military Triage protocols are supposed to be at opposits in many categories.