tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post2616669831633474373..comments2023-06-11T09:28:29.271-06:00Comments on Baby Medic: The Routinefiznathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01887628791335787626noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-18187089739603589112008-06-01T20:35:00.000-06:002008-06-01T20:35:00.000-06:0090% bulls***, 10% oh s***!90% bulls***, 10% oh s***!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-15811039349156234622008-05-29T23:30:00.000-06:002008-05-29T23:30:00.000-06:00I feel you, and am in the same place. Keep your he...I feel you, and am in the same place. Keep your head up, bro.<BR/><BR/>-MMMedicmarch.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08290237833227525429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-14783138354973152872008-05-29T19:38:00.000-06:002008-05-29T19:38:00.000-06:00Heh NJ EMS I tried that already! Spent a year the...Heh NJ EMS I tried that already! Spent a year there (not working EMS) and I don't doubt you for a second! That city is NUTS.fiznathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01887628791335787626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-66328666654265876472008-05-29T18:44:00.000-06:002008-05-29T18:44:00.000-06:00Just move to Newark NJ.You will eat stabbing and s...Just move to Newark NJ.You will eat stabbing and shooting morning noon and night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-53211337218462029142008-05-28T00:48:00.000-06:002008-05-28T00:48:00.000-06:00In my experience I look at every call as a new exp...In my experience I look at every call as a new experience. I have been in EMS a long time and yes calls can become mundane, the same old calls. I try to find something in each call that makes it unique. My partner has been with my company for a little over a year and he makes it a point to learn something new everyday. I thrive for the fun calls, but sometime these mundane calls can be an opportunity to learn something new, an opportunity to help someone else, maybe even help them come up with a plan. I provide my care to the fullest and get a sense of pride when I drop my pt off in the hospital, when the pt thanks me for being there. A thanks is something we see offen in the city environment. We have medics that follow the routine, provide substandard care or just enough care, I am not like that. In 20 years, yes this job can be frustrating, but I come to work with an open mind.YankeeMedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03512048811750702984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-39272639918592282022008-05-27T22:07:00.000-06:002008-05-27T22:07:00.000-06:00I am no EMT but would hope that if I was in the sa...I am no EMT but would hope that if I was in the same situation I would just be thankful that no one's lives were being changed by horrible accidents or untimely deaths. I am sure it gets boring but the good stuff to you is actually the bad stuff for everyone else.Christian Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10400614534690575254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-73749288686822902402008-05-26T07:38:00.000-06:002008-05-26T07:38:00.000-06:00When I look back now after retirement on twenty si...When I look back now after retirement on twenty six years as a medic. It is not the complicated that come to mind first. It was young single mother at 3 am with a baby and no one except us to help here. The baby simply had a cold we made sure she got him the care he needed. The look of thanks still resonates. It was a young man with a debilitating disease that was watching his life slowly ebb away and he began taking it out on his mother the only person in his life. We got them the help they needed. Nothing big just got them to the hospital where they hooked up with a social worker. My partner was stopped by the mother weeks later. She told him we had changed their lives, seeing the social worker had helped. It was the code where everything was a struggle and nothing seemed to work but we delivered her to the hospital breathing and with a heart beat. She died a few days later but the family sent us a basket of fruit in thanks. Those days had given them time to say goodbye. You don't know. I came to believe it was not about the medicine as much as it was about helping people.Roger Huderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08902938182583399119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-79165143074345373162008-05-25T22:20:00.000-06:002008-05-25T22:20:00.000-06:00I'm starting Paramedic Academy in the fall, and wo...I'm starting Paramedic Academy in the fall, and wondering the same thing about this career I'm heading for ...tanglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15207392923536069583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-60025699815428735332008-05-25T10:54:00.000-06:002008-05-25T10:54:00.000-06:00You never know when you are going to make a differ...You never know when you are going to make a difference and many times it is the little ones that you hardly remember. I know how it can be. Read the following posts for my perspective<BR/><BR/>You Never know when you might make a difference<BR/><BR/>http://dispatchesfromthestreet.blogspot.com/2008/04/you-never-know-when-you-might-make.html<BR/><BR/>The Little Ones<BR/><BR/>http://dispatchesfromthestreet.blogspot.com/2008/04/little-ones.html<BR/><BR/>One of the biggest challenges for all of us is finding our own unique reason for continuing the face of what can seem like an endless stream "sick, lame and lazy" as they use to say in the service. If you don't it can get in the way of the good parts of the job.Roger Huderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08902938182583399119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-61957747155873385962008-05-23T04:52:00.000-06:002008-05-23T04:52:00.000-06:00Leave the job at work. When you're out with your f...Leave the job at work. When you're out with your friends, the first 45 minutes are allowable for work-related conversation; after that, the offender buys penalty shots.<BR/><BR/>The words my mentor in Newark told me:<BR/><BR/>1. Treat everyone with respect.<BR/>2. Do the right thing.<BR/>3. Never compromise yourself.<BR/><BR/>She told me that when I was at a burnout at the beginning of the year, and I find that is what's keeping me sane.Herbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04983841837966551290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-67877664090040377652008-05-22T19:28:00.000-06:002008-05-22T19:28:00.000-06:00As a brand new medic myself, a class behind yours ...As a brand new medic myself, a class behind yours actually I am truly beginning to experience the "mundane" myself. I can say however though that you will find the mundane anywhere you go. We had a motto in the military "Hurry up and wait" you train and train and train for ever for combat and you hurry up and wait for it. By reading your posts I see your obviously intrigued and want to purse further things in medicine, and my advice is appreciate the mundane for it will be there too. The mundane patients we deal with on a regular basis, well we hand them off to the ED RN's and MD's who in turn deal with the same daily mundane. So I say keep your head up high, sit back and enjoy the mundane with an watchful eye for one day the mundane might be much more then you thought it was!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-50992128756454237272008-05-22T16:15:00.000-06:002008-05-22T16:15:00.000-06:00I feel the same way about my line of work. There ...I feel the same way about my line of work. There are only so many times I can handle Fido coming into the clinic for his yearly vaccines and physical exam. I too like the cases that make you think.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13096325361955898317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-27808364557197541732008-05-22T14:44:00.000-06:002008-05-22T14:44:00.000-06:00when you find out please let me know!when you find out please let me know!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856030010029791557.post-27073543123742216292008-05-22T00:54:00.000-06:002008-05-22T00:54:00.000-06:00How does that saying go again?... "hours intense o...How does that saying go again?... "hours intense of boredom followed by moments of shear terror"...'tis the nature of EMS. We could all be working desk jobs where the hours of intense boredom are not followed by anything but more TPS reports.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com