Richard B the EMT

Suggest asking the supervisors to borrow a crew, and stage an incident. Everyone is an actor, as well as a provider. Also, ask the local LEOs if they can lend support, as that part of their training can probably be imported to EMS work. Works out great. Some EMS folks become Leonardo DiCaprio and Demi Moore, others become Ron Howard and Penny Marshall.

Yes, I recognize a F/W model 30 with Trendelenberg function. Has to be an old picture, as the EMTs are not wearing their yellow personal protective gear.

While I have not yet formulated an answer to the morality issue of assisting at an execution, I am glad someone mentioned, in addition to Lethal Injection, other ways, the Gas Chamber, Electrocution, Hanging, Firing Squad, and in some countries, beheading (France doesn't use the guillotine any more, does it?).

Probably not, as they have those plastic tie cuff thingies.

As a conspiracy theorist, unfortunately, that makes sense.

I wonder how this will affect the 5 counties comprising NYC, and/or the FDNY EMS? I only ask, as I live in NYC, and, while maintaining my EMT "cert", am an FDNY EMS retiree.

PCP, seems to me, the guy had an allergy to stainless steel bracelets, hense his hesitation to getting out of the car, and if the LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) knew of the order of protectiion's existance.

I somehow get ther feeling that the safe speed of an ambulance is a combination of how fast the road engineers feel any and all vehicles can go safely on the roadway, the driver's attitude as to how fast is safe, the condition of the vehicle, contributing weather factors, actual skills of the driver, and the driver's physical and emotional state.

FDNY EMS policy is, per the call type, respond L&S, or as a regular vehicle, stopping at all red traffic signals. Once your crew gets to the scene, at either BLS or ALS level, the crew can determine the actual condition, and use, or not use, L&S, while enroute to the hospital, dependant on that condition.

Perhaps these hopefully nice folks can be of help? http://www.aarc.org/

She would qualify for Runner Up if she'd gotten hurt. Perhaps she wasn't thinking, but everyone seems to think her untrained-as-emergency-responder heart was in the right place.

(BLS personnel responding) Dehydration? Also, were you administering saline or glucose via that IV?

Do you also see it as possibly becoming a requirement for being a Doctor in an On Line Medical Control center? Either way, it seems to be a good thing.

Coitus interruptus canineus? (Had to say something)

I ask for a clarification, here. To me, a "doc-in-the-box" is a freestanding ER/clinic, not physically a part of a hospital building, for basically "Fast Trak" type patients. Anyone who needs actual hospitalization from one of these locations has to be transported to a hospital somewhere else. Are you using the phrase "doc-in-the-box" to refer to "On Line Medical Control"?

It still, even all these years after seeing it the first time, sets me to giggles.

I have stated this before, and probably will do so again: I like the Mets, as they are my "home town" team. I like the Yankees, because I like tradition. AND... I like any team beating the Dodgers, as both my parents came from BROOKLYN! (This concludes the Sports section)

This sent me today, and causing me to recall a few years ago, when an FDNY Fire Fighting crew did something similar, but to their firehouse... The story takes place in Illinois. =

Here in New York City, the majority of EMS calls do not need the NYPD on the scene with us. Admittedly taken out of context, but would not having, in no particular order, a combination of proper medical training for the personnel, driving techniques for the vehicle operator, and the lights and siren available for use by that trained vehicle operator, instead of delaying transport awaiting a LEO vehicle fot it's Lights and Siren, be a better thing? I think I have the correct paraphrased quote, applicable here, from Theodore Roosevelt, that one can get better results with a carrot and big stick, than just the carrot. Also, while I don't believe I know you, I have to think you've never seen any Emergency vehicles being operated in Emergent mode in New York City, especially on the city's highways. Too many times, I have seen drivers almost in collisions, and actually colliding, trying to force or bluff their way through the traffic, by trying to appear that they are convoying with the ambulance. I'll reopen some of my old strings re vehicles following ambulances, and the dangers of Emergency vehicles convoying under L&S, in the near future.

Happiness, re the patient who you KEDed in the ambulance, I must presume, on your paperwork you followed the mantra:

To all EMS personnel working in or near Boston: I appear to have made a bad misstatement, to the inadvertent detriment of the Boston area's EMS providers, for which I most humbly apologize. It remains my hope that the individuals working under falsified refresher EMT certifications and/or licensing be taken from the midst of the rest of the collective EMS community, who earned and/or maintain their training status by actually doing the studying and test taking as proscribed by either local community and/or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Health standards, or under whatever the proper name of said agency, which I also regret not knowing.

OK,. I was going on GIGO memory, as what I thought I had been told was "Boston Health and Hospitals Corporation". I stand/sit corrected. (GIGO= Old computer programming phrase, acronym for "Garbage In, Garbage Out")

OK, the complaints about it seemingly specifiying Boston are on me, as I am the original poster. Boston EMS is a part of the Boston Health and Hospitals Corporation, if memory serves, and was actually started up as a similar operation to the NYC HHC EMS, with their help, years prior to the NYC EMS being moved to the management of the FDNY. There is at least one Boston Fire Fighter mentioned, and specified by name, but I think the BFD is NOT in the EMS business.

Most here in the City know about this, and that it has been under investigation from last spring, at least.

Depending on circumstances, some here view that as a blessing, others view it as a curse, while others might vary on the direction due to what happens on a particular call. Sometimes it is not even our own service. I am still a bit haunted by hearing a scanner on local NYPD Division, with an Officer yelling "10-13! 10-13! (Officer needs assistance FORTHWITH) Shots fired! MY PARTNER IS DOWN!!!"