Comments on: People Care http://medic22.com/2009/04/people-care/ A collection of disjointed ramblings of an EMT. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:08:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Medic7 http://medic22.com/2009/04/people-care/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Medic7 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:57:00 +0000 http://medicseven.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/people-care#comment-507 Hey Walt... good to see you're doing well. I read the "notes from captivity" every day. Blogging helps keep you sane. <br /><br />As someone who working in the field for over 20 years, the radio thing is scary. I left the biz a year ago to go back to school and don't regret leaving it for a moment. My wife is still in radio, although she's on the sales side. As things continue to slide, it's becoming pretty bleak. Our long term goal is to get out in 5 years or so and buy a B&B in New England and she'll run that while I work EMS somewhere...or teach. Or whatever.<br /><br />As for at we do at "IFT", it's just BLS. And the "patient level" is my own creation... more so to be humorous than anything else. The Level III guys are the ones that bitch about everything. These are the ones we do most often. However, we do take some gorked out patients (most of those are GCS 10 or less) to dialysis every other day. I think it's a shame that the families of these people continue to have them dialyzed and we're relegated to working as moving men... picking up a package and moving it from Point A to Point B. But, such is the state of health care and the reluctance to every let anyone just die, even if it is their time.<br /><br />And yes, the big meeting is tomorrow at 1400. I think we're going to get the final word on what happens and who stays and who goes. I'm rather ambivalent about The Borg. One one nd, it's still going to be IFT for a while. On the other, it pays much better. So, I guess we'll see what happens. <br /><br />The medic school entrance exam i in a couple of weeks... so it may all become moot in September anyway. Hey Walt… good to see you're doing well. I read the "notes from captivity" every day. Blogging helps keep you sane.

As someone who working in the field for over 20 years, the radio thing is scary. I left the biz a year ago to go back to school and don't regret leaving it for a moment. My wife is still in radio, although she's on the sales side. As things continue to slide, it's becoming pretty bleak. Our long term goal is to get out in 5 years or so and buy a B&B in New England and she'll run that while I work EMS somewhere…or teach. Or whatever.

As for at we do at "IFT", it's just BLS. And the "patient level" is my own creation… more so to be humorous than anything else. The Level III guys are the ones that bitch about everything. These are the ones we do most often. However, we do take some gorked out patients (most of those are GCS 10 or less) to dialysis every other day. I think it's a shame that the families of these people continue to have them dialyzed and we're relegated to working as moving men… picking up a package and moving it from Point A to Point B. But, such is the state of health care and the reluctance to every let anyone just die, even if it is their time.

And yes, the big meeting is tomorrow at 1400. I think we're going to get the final word on what happens and who stays and who goes. I'm rather ambivalent about The Borg. One one nd, it's still going to be IFT for a while. On the other, it pays much better. So, I guess we'll see what happens.

The medic school entrance exam i in a couple of weeks… so it may all become moot in September anyway.

]]> By: Walt Trachim http://medic22.com/2009/04/people-care/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Walt Trachim Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:26:00 +0000 http://medicseven.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/people-care#comment-506 You're dead on regarding streaming and live audio over broadband or satellite. I give ground-based radio 10 years at most before it goes the way of the Dumont television network.<br /><br />Thom Dick is a wonderful writer. I have a copy of "People Care" - in our business, they are words to live by. I've loaned out to different people I either currently work with or have worked with in the past. It has made more than half of them stop and reconsider things like attitude, work ethic, that kind of thing. Very powerful little book.<br /><br />Do you guys just do BLS transport or do you do ALS/Critical Care with the level I patients you have? Just curious; noticing the level of patients you have listed it makes me think your system is similar to the system I work at in NH. <br /><br />Is it true you're getting sucked in by the evil empire? I worked for them for almost 5 years and I still have nightmares... You’re dead on regarding streaming and live audio over broadband or satellite. I give ground-based radio 10 years at most before it goes the way of the Dumont television network.

Thom Dick is a wonderful writer. I have a copy of “People Care” – in our business, they are words to live by. I’ve loaned out to different people I either currently work with or have worked with in the past. It has made more than half of them stop and reconsider things like attitude, work ethic, that kind of thing. Very powerful little book.

Do you guys just do BLS transport or do you do ALS/Critical Care with the level I patients you have? Just curious; noticing the level of patients you have listed it makes me think your system is similar to the system I work at in NH.

Is it true you’re getting sucked in by the evil empire? I worked for them for almost 5 years and I still have nightmares…

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