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Where can I get all levels of EMT training in or around charlotte? Will my EMT acreditation be valid in california?
Check with the local community/junior colleges. They are the places that most of the EMT-1/Basic classes are offered. Some community colleges offer paramedic training, too. There are also private EMS schools across the county that offer EMT courses. I believe that if you're nationally registered (NREMT) as an EMT-Basic, you can easily get an EMT-1 cert in Calif. For the complete story, check out the Calif EMSA website at: www.emsa.cahwnet.gov for more info.
FYI, paramedic school takes some commitment. I've seen lots of people drop-out or not pass.
Erik, Calif EMT-P
I'm interested in locating a copy of the film "Life or Death" that I saw 17 years ago in my original EMT course. It's a comedy/drama contrasting the EMS system of the old "load and go" days, with two guys from the local gas station running the ambulance vs. the modern system of today's EMTs and was used as part of our training. I have no idea what year it was made or what person or organization produced it, although judging from my recollection of the modern ambulance in the film, its' probably from the late 70s or early 80s.
If anyone can help me find a copy it would be much appreciated!
Aaron Hadley, EMT-B
Special Events EMS
Salt Lake City, Utah
Depends on the EMS system you operate in. Most have a list of "presumptive" signs of death, things like no head (injuries incompatible with life), no pulse/respirations for a certain verifiable period of time, valid DNR, etc.
In the past few weeks, it seems like a new TV show is announced for DVD every day. Now, it's Emergency!'s turn. Universal has just announced a whole slew of shows, and one of them is Emergency! No details have been announced, but the hope is that the show will be released in season box sets. That's a strong possibility, if they follow the specs of their new Baretta box. I just hope they include the cartoon and other spin-offs, such as the Sierra pilot.
I think the other shows will be of interest as well--especially Dragnet.
Hi, this is a great site. Thanks also for the tip on Emergency on DVD. I went to the site wwwtvshowsondvd.com and they did,nt have a release date yet,but you can vote for Emergency(when registered). It also had a spot where web page owners could list their Emergency related site, if anyone would like to do that.
Since after a fire our gear is usually saturated with water, the first thing is to dry them. Either with a machine or hang them out to dry (out of direct sunlight). Most depts do have the means of washing gear. When gear is dirty, it doesn't provide the same level of protection that clean gear does. Also, there are so many contaminants in a fire that become enbedded in gear, washing is almost a must. Also, we sometimes wear our gear on calls besides fires. Such as fire alarms, food on the stove, etc. Most citizens don't want a bunch of firemen with dirty gear tromping through their clean house. I hope this helps.
I guess it's just common sense, but they just didn't show the guys on Emergency washing turnouts! Anyway, I have another question that I forgot to ask earlier. Are firemen/paramedics routinely fingerprinted as part of employment? If so, when did this practice start?
Most departments will fingerprint when they are doing your background check. As for the turnouts being washed a lot of engines now have class A foam which is like a soap. Sometimes if your gear is really bad you will decon at the scene and get hosed down.
Thanks, Joe. Do you have any idea if fingerprinting for firemen was done back in the 70s? I know that it's pretty routine now but I don't know about earlier.
I wonder, you know how on EMERGENCY! Dr. Mike Morton, and sometimes, Dr. Kelly Brackett have a lousy bedside manner? Dr. Early has a good bedside manner, but is that something that is learned from when residents are on hospital rotation, or is that just part of the personality of an individual doctor?
Are all doctors hot-heads like Brackett and Morton, or are there some laid back "Dr. Joe Earlys" in the bunch
I'm just curious, because, I bet some paramedics are like that, and how about Brice's cold and clinical vs
Gage and DeSoto's warm and compassionate? I swear I think Brice is an android from another planet. (LOL!:O)
its a common nurse saying thats really true that the doctors with good bedside manners are always incompetent and you want the ones with the bad bedside mammer takikng care of you even if theyre rude theyre better doctors. nurses say this all the time my mom is a nurse and shw swears its true.
Bedside manners Training, and The Ruder, the better
by Rhonda
I'm sorry, but I have to dissagree with the statement that rude doctors are better doctors and those with good bedside manners are incompetent. I am a nurse and that just has not been my experience. That also is not a very common saying among my colleagues.Yes, there are some really good doctors that are really rude, but I know of quite of few rude docters that are not so good too. Likewise, while there are some incompentent doctors with good bedside manners, there are many with excellent bedside manners that are the best around. We are lucky at our facility ( a major university Medical Center) to have some quite a few doctors who are considered among the best in their field who also are very nice and have a great bedside manner.
In answer to the original post, yes, there really are doctors like Dr Early out there:) As for as training,I don;t know if any classes are routinely offered in human dynamics or other bedside manner topics or not. I do know that as with anyone, outside forces or perhaps being in the wrong field can affect personality. I know of a Resident who was the rudest , meanest, and not incompentent, but not the best either of one of the suregery disciplines who decided to switch to anesthesia. When she switched to anesthesia the change was remarkable. She is now the sweetest, nicest, and most competent anesthesia resident around..and has an excellent bedside manner to boot. We hated it when she was on for her sugical discipline service. We love it now when she is on call for anesthesia. (And no, I'm not saying that everyone that is rude needs to change fields, etc.. some people are just rude:) )
This is probably more of an answer than anyone wanted.. but Oh well:)
Re: Bedside manners Training, and The Ruder, the better
by Anon
I am a nurse, and I have seen time and again a LOT of truth in the statment that doctors with good bedside manners are incompetent more often than not. I remember one urologic surgeon who literally would leave patients bleeding out in recovery for some other doctor to take care of, but got away with it because his patients just LOOOVED his bedside manner. He should have been sued many times over, but never was.
The insurance companies teach doctors 'bedside manner' classes as lawsuit prevention. And they send doctors to refreshers on bedside manner if they get sued. Not refreshers on their medical skills, refreshers on bedside manner! It's shameful. If the general public knew half the stuff about doctors nurses know, they'd never want to go near one! Most doctors are scum, inside and out, and not worth knowing. Hospitals need to stop covering up for them; nurses need to stop covering up for them.
I have yet to meet ONE SINGLE good bedside manner surgeon I would want touching me. I'm a surgical nurse and I know damn well which ones stink. It's usually the nice ones. Give me some arrogance and attitude any day.
Do any of you watch DOC on PAX TV? BRC as Dr. Clint Cassidy is so cute, and has a good Bedside manner to boot. He is very nice to his patients, and does everything he can to help them. Unlike Dr. Oliver Crane, who is egotistical, not very nice, and may just be in it for the money. Dr. Derek McGrath is another nice doctor, who sometime ends up being a pt. When Dr.
Cassidy and Dr.McGrath get together, they are good.
Dr. Cassidy had to remind Dr. Crane that he wasn't God.
The dr. I would avoid if I were at Westbury Clinic would definitely be Dr. Oliver Crane. He doesn't even treat his staff right. He's always antagonist towards Dr. Cassidy, who even has Christian ethics to back him up. Sometimes, I think BRC and his character are an angel in disguise.
He's nice sometimes, and he's an ogre sometimes,
and he knows he stuff. Like the incident with J.P. Demont in Publicity Hound. Demont was being a horse's patootie anyway. Dr. Brackett had to get roug with him, and in Hang-up, the rude surfer dude! Boy, was he a twit! Going surfing with a cast on.
Dixie: Good God! You could've drowned.
He deserved that chewing out. Some patients don't, maybe they just needed to be guided in the right direction, but others need a good verbal chastising.
I have a really good doctor, who is very nice, and very competent. I wouldn't trade him for all the world. I wonder if there are doctors, who would take advantage of a female patient, like OB/GYNs, who don't have a nurse in the room with them, when the female patient is having a pelvic exam. I wrote a story about that happening, not connected with EMERGENCY!
Have any of you ever known that to happen?
You know how Craig Brice was "The Walking Rule Book"?
Yeah, well, and in "The Nuisance, he was so cold and clinical. Well, if there was ever a Craig Brice type in real life, and maybe a patient complained to the doctor or somebody like that, who maybe trained that paramedic, about his bedside manner, would it be recommended that that particular paramedic be removed, and find another line of work more befitting his anal retentive personality? That is what I'm writing about, and I was wondering if anything like that ever
happens in real life.
I don't think he would be asked to leave...maybe lighten up some...just because you got no people skills doesn't mean you can't do a job to the fullest.
Ciao
When Marc died there was a sweeeeet song. There was sang "Somewhere over the rainbows...". I need this song sooooooo much. Can anyboy tell me who sings this?????? Post me a mail.
GRAZIE!!!!!!
Lenka
