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AMA. At my core I like helping people. 3 years of experience, with scattered jobs everywhere. Jack of all trades, master of none yet. Give me time to respond to answers at my own pace. Please don't be scared by [the pony]. [the pony] is here to help.
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I should add this is all FORMER training. I'm currently between work. Not malpractice or anything, I have to take care of myself. Helping others helps me.
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Dec 2, 2024 20:42
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Following this thread. I joined the local volunteer fire department 2 years ago. I took EMT classes and passed my NREMT this spring. I just now started a full time EMT job. I will still be on the fire department as an EMT also. I'm also taking my firefighter classes this winter.
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Dec 17, 2024 23:24
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It's burgin' time! 
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Have you flown in the helicopters? Do you get to wheel people to other parts of the hospital or just the ED? How often do you get stuck in traffic?
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Dec 21, 2024 22:47
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Hotel Kpro posted:Have you flown in the helicopters? Do you get to wheel people to other parts of the hospital or just the ED? How often do you get stuck in traffic? I have not, but will get a chance to do a ridealong in the future. There's a guy I'm on the fire department with that is a flight nurse. We typically only bring people to the ED. Traffic is a non issue in our primary area since it's a rural department. People do drive dumb around ambulances and fire trucks though. Our issue isn't really traffic, but distance.
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Jan 8, 2025 03:59
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Hotel Kpro posted:Have you flown in the helicopters? Do you get to wheel people to other parts of the hospital or just the ED? How often do you get stuck in traffic? I get stuck in traffic unrelated to job, which is now lack of job. I moved to a more urban environment but I'm probably headed back to a car based lifestyle in a terrible traffic ecosystem, so I'm a pretty defensive driver. Know when to go, when to push, when to pull when to turn. Never did learn evac driving though, so I'm a sham in that regard. All should mention all my training is former. The place I volunteered for while working another job wasn't respectful of my time and made me participate in running state sponsored gambling. Bastards. Anyway, let's review. 1. No 2. I don't, but I know a lot about the job. Basically you get to know each individual hospital. My hospital was the main branch of a larger organization, so it received a lot of money. I was never involved in transport, just patient care. 3. More often than I should.
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Feb 9, 2025 15:57
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Are doctors the worst to deal with in hospitals? I've heard stories but so far haven't met lovely ones yet
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Feb 10, 2025 02:50
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There are some places where you never encounter a lovely soul, but doctors also took about 9 years off my life and gave me heart problems so there's good and bad in every category. I've been a patient at rural hospitals where the doctor is one of the worst people imaginable just because he has 0 time, but then also doesn't stay late to make up for it. I've also seen nurses who are completely blind to the needs of their patient. And then sometimes you just have a rough patient who's being vulgar, pissing everywhere, and making a lot of noise because they're drunk. At least doctors are trained in something and do an actual job at the hospital. Patients can range anywhere from "this person needs and deserves care" to "I am sworn to do no harm but this guy is being a problem for other people and he needs to just sleep". I worked nights at my most recent hospital job so I didn't see a lot of doctors! Mostly nurse practitioners, nurses, techs, imaging techs, sitters/patient safety advocates (what I was, basically the front line of defense for staying with patients and making sure they don't harm themselves, even if it's just an old person getting out of bed.), but then all kinds of other support personnel. Just not a lot of doctors outside the ER, and ER docs are usually pretty drat busy and another breed. It's sort of like... yeah they might hold a mean streak, but keep in mind they might be the smartest man in the room when it comes to 99% of treatment in an emergency setting, so great power and great responsibility but even that 1% is going to keep him up at night if he's one of the thoughtful ones. I look up to doctors a lot, good ones anyway. There are definitely hacks out there, but it's a lifelong path for the most part. People who took on the role because they wanted to help other people. Worst to deal with though... I want to say like a psychiatry worker who's just in it for the paycheck? Those get pretty bad. edit: that or security guards lol, but they're usually just doing their job too. Maybe not doing it right all the time but I just keep people safe on and off the board.
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Feb 10, 2025 14:58
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ToastGhost posted:There are some places where you never encounter a lovely soul, but doctors also took about 9 years off my life and gave me heart problems so there's good and bad in every category. I've been a patient at rural hospitals where the doctor is one of the worst people imaginable just because he has 0 time, but then also doesn't stay late to make up for it. I've also seen nurses who are completely blind to the needs of their patient. And then sometimes you just have a rough patient who's being vulgar, pissing everywhere, and making a lot of noise because they're drunk. Doctors don’t really get any training in bedside manners. Especially compared to nurses, which is a much more holistic education.
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Feb 10, 2025 18:11
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I took an EMT class two years ago over the summer with my partner. We're both full time software devs and passed our NREMT that December. We only do volunteer EMT work where we get to pick the org and venue and I always feel like I'm fake or not real EMT because I'm not dealing with a 350lb 1 footed diabetic who poo poo themselves on the gurney in transport or holding dying children while their mothers are wailing on the side of the road in 911. Do EMS workers who do it as a full time job look down on those who don't?
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Jul 4, 2025 02:06
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Dispatch question: I'm wondering what happened after a recent 911 call. This weekend, a car in the lane next to me on the highway veered off the road and flipped over. I had my passenger call 911 while we kept driving. The dispatcher took the information down, but then stayed on the line as they bounced us around to a couple different county services. We were able to give a description of the car, highway + direction, and the mile-marker at which it happened, but the county-level services first referred us away to another county, who then insisted that they needed the nearest exit instead of the mile marker (which I didn't know). Then the cell dropped and they didn't call back. What happens in that situation?
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Aug 11, 2025 15:56
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EMT here, not a dispatcher. In my county they'd have sent us out with a "MVC reported somewhere around here, go look around for it". Law enforcement in the area would also look around for it.
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jiffypop45 posted:I took an EMT class two years ago over the summer with my partner. We're both full time software devs and passed our NREMT that December. We only do volunteer EMT work where we get to pick the org and venue and I always feel like I'm fake or not real EMT because I'm not dealing with a 350lb 1 footed diabetic who poo poo themselves on the gurney in transport or holding dying children while their mothers are wailing on the side of the road in 911. I personally don't and I know many that don't look down on vollies either. I started off as a volunteer on our town fire department. I thought about going full time when I passed the NREMT. My last job was laying people off and cutting hours of production and that was my motivator to do what I wanted to do. It was a pay cut, but this company has much better benefits. Lately, I've been partnered with another EMT on night shift. The other night shift unit is an EMT-Medic unit. We have to keep the medic inside of our PSA so that means any transfers are done by us (the EMT-EMT rig). There are nights where we've been on the road for drat near the whole 12 hours. I've met a couple paragods and many more great medics who have been nothing but help to me. I still work the volunteer service as EMS and Fire (I passed my fire exams and practicals earlier this year). I think volunteers deserve some extra kudos sometimes since many of them also have full time jobs and families on top of serving their communities. It's also harder to stay fresh on all the protocols and equipment when the call volume is low.
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