Where are the Canadian texbooks?

[tniuqs]

Americans work harder than any other nationality.

Ever been to China ? Kind of a blanket statement there Kaisu.

ukcanuck

Would you guys say that the Theriault text would be a good book to get to study medic/legal aspects for the Ontario MOHLTC exam?

Rob Theriault would be the right guy for Ontario ... you can also contact him on the PAC website.

In passing one of the biggest reasons that Canadians do not wright or publish EMS books is because the Market is just not big enough to make any money at it, the legal issues are far more relaxed generally speaking, but having worked many places on the north american continent and in a few capacities the physiology and drugs are very similar.

cheers

[WolfmanHarris]

Ukcanuck, your best bets are to go to www.ambulance-transition.com which has a library of all the MOHLTC documents. There you'll want to grab BLS Patient Care Standard, ALS Patient Care Standards (even as a BLS provider all of our SAED and SR protocols come from that document, the Ambulance Act and the new DNR supplement (which I think is up there). That should cover almost everything you'll need to know for reciprocity as far as protocol and medico-legal. I'd also suggest a browse of the Highway Traffic Act for the sections on emergency vehicles.

Hope that helps.

[spenac]

As a far south Canadian I have never found any problem with the big 3 paramedic books. :?

[mobey]

Americans work harder than any other nationality

Australia named the hardest working nation

Australian workers hold the dubious record of doing more hours in the week than any other nationality, a survey by The Australia Institute has revealed.

The Monday-to-Friday, nine-to-five working week is gone, with employees logging on via laptops, mobiles phones and blackberries at any time and on any day.

Increasingly employees can't escape work and feel compelled to respond immediately in case they miss out on important messages, the survey says.

Clive Hamilton, from the think tank The Australia Institute, believes the trend is damaging lives and relationships.

Dr Hamilton told the Nine Network's Sunday program this week that Australians no longer lived in the land of the long weekend.

"In the early 1980s the long historical trend of falling working hours reversed, and we started to work longer and longer hours, to the point where now, Australians each year work more hours than any other worker in any other rich country," Dr Hamilton said.

"More than the Germans, more than the Americans who generally only have one or two weeks' annual leave, more even than the Japanese who are famous for this phenomenon called Koroshi — or death by overwork."

Dr Hamilton says many of us are caught up in a live to work, rather than a work to live, state of life. He believes we've become seduced by the dollar and materialism.

While many workplaces have offered more flexible work structures because of technology, the new workplace could be a double edged sword, he says.

"Now flexibility is generally … a very positive word, but in this case it can be a very negative word, because it means people are flexibly working at nights, flexibly working on Saturdays and Sundays and this is having a really big impact on the personal lives and indeed the health of those who are hooked on this work and spend cycle."

But on the plus side, flexibility on the job has enabled more working mothers, and fathers, to juggle the commitments of parenthood, while pursing careers.

ACTU president Sharan Burrow says government policies need to offer more to workers, to retain them in the workforce, and providing flexible options, particularly etc etc etc......

Nice try though

Whats with the shots back and forth between the borders in the threads lately?

Congrats Kiwimedic