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Thanks for this post, crimecop. My 10yr old is being raised the same old school way. I just wish more of his peers were.

Very sad for her and her families, both off the job and on. But do NOT blame the breed. Blame the upbringing of the dog before she took it in. My mastiff/German shepherd is 145 pounds of mush to those she knows but will probably shred any dummy who enters my house unannounced. We rescued her from a shelter as a wee pup of 20 pounds. She's eaten a LOT since, obviously...

seriously? sad, no. disgusting, biased and not even proven factually accurate, yes.

Gotta love typing too fast and spell check. Sorry for the war and the jeep. LOL Hopefully you get the jist.

Please consider something less boring than a gym or the related equipment. I have all of that...the Nordic track makes a great Nordic coat rack... Try karate or krav maga type training. You'll run a little, do some situps and pushh ups, but more importantly you'll get your heart rate going enough to burn pounds and build the endurance you need to be good at what you do. And the perk with krav training is that you'll get hit war less often by EDPs and drug addicts looking to fight. Humor me... Www.Kmny.us I gain nothing if you join, but if it jeeps you alive longer, I as the local ER nurse, will be soo happy! My greatest day at work is when I don't have to care for my brothers and sisters. Seriously.

Hilarious! Id buy and wear that on a tshirt. To the new pilot... awesome! People like you rule because you are actual flying superheroes.... kinda like my favorite guy, Batman. Way to go!

Equal parts hilarious and sad. I think I know that guy. Flunked out of nursing school. Still lives in his moms basement. Posts on Lohud A LOT.

Wow. That was bizarre. Hope it gets their point across to the legislators. Truly bizarre. Who thinks of these things? LOL

One question to all involved: why the hell have SO many people been hit by mnorth trains lately?? Seriously, 3 or 4 employees in 2 weeks, plus a few civilians trying to off themselves, almost all in croton. What's the new trend about??!!

The trooper was temp insane and so far out of line that the line was a dot to him. That said, Abaduck is right with most of his opinions. Concurrently, the offended officer was also justified in feeling defensive and annoyed because abaduck often stirs the pot one too many times. Call a truce and move on.

Forgive me if this post posts twice. I typed away, hit add reply, and it all disappeared. Annoying. Anyway, I need to say a few things: 1. We are ALL buffs. It's part of why we all do what we do. We love the thrill, we love helping, we love a pat on the head if and when it happens. 2. If we were not buffs, we would, at the very least, suck at what we do. At worst, we would hurt or kill people with our ineptness (is that even a word?). 3. There is absolutely NO screening tool to differentiate between just the typical buff and the closet EDP who is going to start fires just to be the hero who puts it out and saves lives, or the nurse who is gonna slip a little extra K into an IV just to be the hero who resuscitates that patient. 3.5... If 90% of us in EMS, police, fire or in-hospital care were subjected to comprehensive psych evaluations as a condition of employment, we'd ALL BE WORKING AT McD's instead. Don't throw stones when you, too live in a glass house. 4. If you never met this young man, you can't understand the collective confusion and sadness that has blanketed his community. He was always energetic, enthusiastic, respectful toward staff and empathetic toward patients he brought into the local ER. A lohud article and facebook page do not give you the right to judge this young man's character or level of obvious mental illness. 5. Sleepy Hollow FD and VAC: hold your heads high and know that those who actually know you and work alongside you still respect you. Tapout

We all respresent each other. We ALL represent EACH OTHER. WE ALL REPRESENT EACH OTHER. This simple line represents and perfectly sums up EVERYTHING we ALL do as EMS and ER healthcare providers. Say this line before every single shift you work. If you believe it, get to work! But if you don't, call out and consider submitting your resignation. Then consider another job because you won't be good at what you get paid to do and you will be eventually fired for being useless and ineffective. We all represent each other. If you love this job, you will be a perfect example of those of us who also love this job. You will make me look great and I thank you in advance for all of the gratiitude I'll get! But if you do badly because you don't love this job or do it for the wrong reasons, YOU MAKE ME AND ALL OF OF US WITH GOOD, ALTRUISTIC INTENTIONS, LOOK BAD. I will have to defend myself for YOUR lame actions and I will wish you ill in all kinds of ways. I'm harmless but Karma isn't. Never forget that and good luck with the fallout. I won't back you because you didn't back me. Tapout

The other day, the snowy commute proved horrendous. At the rollover between Peekskill Hollow and Bryant Pond Roads, so many Good Samaritans intervened and helped a hurt, scared lady who skidded off the road in her minivan and came to a stop on the vehicle's side against a tree. Thank you to the off-duty EMT I saw running into the woods toward her vehicle. Thanks to the guy trained as a first-responder who also was a life-long Boy Scout who just wanted to help if he could. Thanks especially to the several off-duty NYSTroopers who stopped, provided invaluable scene safety (with loaned flares- ahem) and helped to speed up the BLS response. And thanks, George the medic, for getting there to relieve me and allow me to get to work in the local ER (looking and feeling much like a wet, half-drowned rat). Evereytime I start to think that people in general just suck and don't care about anyone but themselves, Good Samaritans like the ones I met the other day prove me wrong and restore my faith in mankind. Thanks, all of you, for that.

I'm here working at the local ER. I had just intended to lurk but you called me out! LOL Seth. I agree that ER nurses should attend call audits for the exact reasons Seth mentioned. Medics and RNs are so similarly trained and relied on. They should sit and discuss cases from literally beginning to discharge. And is love some ridealong time too! Got my emt from OLM and had a blast answering stacked calls and driving on sidewalks... kidding. Lunch over gotta run. Be safe and thanks for the post Seth.

Welcome, young new EMT! Please, please oh PLEASE always be a good EMT. Never forget good, solid BLS. In CPR, never stop compressing that chest... even if you hear pops and breaks of ribs. Never ever wait for ALS to bring you meds or a defibrillator. Do your thing. Chances are YOU will be the one, with good solid continuous CPR, who actually saves the life of the person who went down and out. I love medics. I married one. But in the moment of BLS arriving first, IT IS THE EMT MOST TIMES WHO SAVES OR DOESN'T SAVE THE LIFE OF THE PATIENT. Your job is soooo much more important than you realize. Thank you for choosing this path. Now own up to it and never underestimate your value when it hits the fan. Gratefully, An old ER RN

Work in any ER or on the streets as EMS for 3 consecutive full moons. You'll THEN get my point. Till then, though, you just honestly don't get it. No studies among scientists in controlled environments will back what we KNOW in the real world. It's not about the tides in your brain. There are none, dude. It IS however, about the water bathing that brain and the magnetic pull the moon has over all of that water. To those who get my point, having actually been there: Be careful and be safe. Be careful and don't let your guard down. If you do, as a former trauma RN, I'll be waiting for you with bilat 14g's. You soooo totally don't want that. Trust me. T.O.

The silly name "Super Moon" was coined by an astrologer.... you know, the lady with the turban who reads lines on your hand and tells you your future. It's crppp. But what IS real is the reality of ANY full moon on a Friday or Saturday. And even an almost full moon is bad-- 2 days before the full is when the ER/EMS chaos actually starts. I worked last night in a local "small community ER" and dealt with babies "accidentally" fed Adderall, a PCP smoker convinced he's gonna swallow his tongue who needed 20 of Haldol and 3 of Cogentin just to calm him down, a kid who drank 2- 40's and 10 shots of Yeigermeister and can't understand why he's vomiting up his breakfast from 3 days ago and his socks... and tonight was even worse. Full house by 3pm and they still kept coming. And fighting. And screaming. Please, EMS, police and my fellow ER staff: BE CAREFUL.The worst of people comes out on EVERY SINGLE FULL MOON, and starts 2 nights before the actual full moon presents itself. The moon pulls on water. People are comprised of over 70% water. Brains are bathed in water. Add mental illness and/or drugs and you are virtually guaranteed someone normally in control now completely out of control and ready to fight AND HURT YOU IF YOU LET THEM. 20 years as an ER RN and I have NEVER, EVER, EVER had a mellow 2 nights before full moon OR a full moon night. Never. Consider yourself forewarned and therefore forearmed. Be safe. Tapout

We received a post- arrest the other night in the local ER. She (a dialysis pt who missed her rx due to the winter storm) called 911 saying she couldn't breathe and "was probably having a heart attack." 2 minutes later PD broke down her door and found her asystolic-- started CPR. 2 more minutes later ALS arrived and loaded a few rounds of Epi and Atropine into her. Got a pulse. Gave 1 more of Epi and 1 more of Atropine. Scrambled her to me in the local ER with a pulse of 40 (mostly ectopic, med-based beats). We immediatley began the hypothermia protocol (AKA Code Cool). Fast forward: 2 days. She was warmed back up in our ICU from 93 degrees to 98 degrees and was extubated the day after. 2 days later she was extubated and asked ME, the one who received her and wrote her off as non-viable, ""What the Hell was I thinking bothering you people with my medical problems??? I'm so sorry I bothered you all!" WE broke her ribs, tore her lip tubing her, and jammed lines and tubes all over the place in her tiny body, and she's apologizing to ME. This is why I do this. Beyond words. Seriously. There's so rarely a save post-arrest, and if the person survives, he/she rarely comes out of it as much more than a plant on a window sill. And she thanked ME. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, all. NEVER forget why you do what you do and NEVER assume your efforts are fruitless. This woman was proof to me to always the assume the outcome is going to be a GOOD ONE.

The Sleepy Hollow EMS fallout from the recent CO poisoning incidents won't die, given the fact that Phelps has a MULTI-victim hyperbaric chamber for CO treatment that has more often than not been un-staffed for the CO poisonings that occured in the Phelps 'hood. My brothers and sisters, please post your demands for a better-staffed chamber for CO exposure and your reasons for the need. Post specific incidents in which you could have easily brought CO-exposed pts to Phelps but either diverted knowing Phelps was "off-hours and unstaffed"., or still brought those victims into Phelps and had those pts transferred out to an OPEN hyperbaric chamber like Jacobi. I have an open and willing to listen ear who might help us at Phelps find $$ to staff that chamber for more than bankers' hours, but I need to justify the need and I need YOUR help to justify such. Thanks in advance. Happy New Years to all! Be safe, please. Tapout

Efdcapt115... excellent post, though you seem to think I am referring to myself as one too discouraged to post, thin skinned, etc. Not at all the case. I was speaking on behalf of a few cop, nurse and emt friends with whom I have shared this site and got an earful about the feedback. I personally like the site and most of the discussions and when things happen on my own job, I'm happy to post it so people learn from the event. Ok then. My 2 cents are here: enough about the truck nuts. It's stupid and juvenile and a direct reflection of the eunuch who instead wears them on his vehicle. Lame. Happy healthy holidays, everyone!

Know what, guys? We here are not all firefighters. There are plenty of ems and hospital care providers who try to post intelligent stuff here, and very often get picked apart by non ems and non hospital people. Then there are the cops among us who try to post and get jammed up by their own IAD. Only FF's seem exempt from most of the criticism that keeps the rest of us from posting.

Barry, your post is the funniest thing I have heard all day. Rough shift. Needed it. Thanks, dude!

True, though the mom and kid were both unconscious and brought in. No one spoke a word of English. No one had insurance. Probably wasn't even a legal apartment. All IRRELEVANT. I am still so happy all picked up on what we were dealing with early and acted appropriately and aggressively. Because of it, they'll live to tell the tale. We have 3 fancy, expensive Massimo pulse ox AND CO monitors. Not end tidal CO2. Actual CO. Bring us anyone seizing and febrile. Chances are it is CO poisoning. Hopefully it will be during the day so we can also use our big azzz hyperbaric chamber and fix them on the spot.

People are already coming up with their own versions of this crppy4loko. Had a guy in the ER last week who downed 12 muscle building supplements.... basically niacin and caffeine. Then he drank 10 beers. He was drunk, wired and itching to fight. Fun times. People will find their own creative and stupid ways around this 4 loko ban. Job security.

You are right, B. But actually the FD readings and the carboxy numbers correlate closely enough to each other. So 5 in air or blood are both limits. These pt readings were the same from pulse ox CO sensor and by mixed venous blood. Thanks.