09-13-2007, 09:30 AM
wjbillock,
I've tried to be forthcoming with you, to no avail. I've tried to be facetious with you to know avail. So this is going to be my last response on this subject. And here's the outline for the response First I'm going to vent a little and the I'm going to try, for the last time, to use reason.
Vent:
You should be dam thankful you have rural medics to respond to you when Heaven forbid you're pinned in a smashed up automobile or God for bid your family member grabs their heart in the middle of the night or falls of a roof etc... The job does not pay well here and it's is even worse there on the BI (I've checked into it). As well it is very taxing on the medics families.
You seem to want to make this in to a public safety issue and I think you need stop and think about those that you're targeting.
Rural paramedic are a rare breed. They're also known as Para-gods. Why? Because unlike their counterparts that work in the inner cities they spend sometimes as long as an hour with their patients as opposed to a 6 min transport. This is the most crucial hour of the patients treatment.
Rural paramedics actually practice medicine in the back of a fast moving truck (with truck springs) They deal with life and death and it aint very fkn pretty. They may be on the phone with a receiving hospital trying to hear the doctors orders, the patient may be gasping for breath trying to answer the medics question as to weather he has any alergic reaction to medications etc.. They can't hear him. There are so many examples,some of which I have already mentioned, that you just can't or don't won't to conceed to, that it sure appears that this is way more about you, than it is public safety.
Reason:
I told you that the current law which you say your going to attempt to get new legislation on is written that if the lights are on the siren should be on.
Others have pasted the actual reading of it here. So what are you going to go to the legislature about? Do you really think they're going change it to say what it already says. The law is written in your favor.
Do you think that any paramedic cares about what you think when he can't hear the doctor on the cell phone? Do you think the legislature is really going to side with you on this? Dude.. knock yourself out but if you really are concerned about public safety then you would, for the last time, go down to the local EMS and visit with them ask them about these guys running with lights only. They may say when did this happen and have a great explanation or they mayy say that this shouldn't have happened and they will look in to it.
But one thing I can promise you is that if you go down there with an attitude they are going to laugh at you and tell you go to the legislature until you turn blue.
If you want to go to the legislature for something that would really help then go get them some more money for an airide suspension for the units brush gards and oh oh some units have headsets those are really nice cuz you can't hear when the medics are asking you to pull over for some reason or another. We rural EMS do have to pull over to use the defibrulater and several other types of treatments.
I hope this works out for you and I wish you the very best on this. I really mean this as it appears to have really gotten under your skin. This is my last response on this, as i don't think this is doing anything but making it worse. I do hope you follow up on it and wish the very best in your endeavers.
Blessings,
dave
"Sometimes your the bug and sometimes your the windshield"
I've tried to be forthcoming with you, to no avail. I've tried to be facetious with you to know avail. So this is going to be my last response on this subject. And here's the outline for the response First I'm going to vent a little and the I'm going to try, for the last time, to use reason.
Vent:
You should be dam thankful you have rural medics to respond to you when Heaven forbid you're pinned in a smashed up automobile or God for bid your family member grabs their heart in the middle of the night or falls of a roof etc... The job does not pay well here and it's is even worse there on the BI (I've checked into it). As well it is very taxing on the medics families.
You seem to want to make this in to a public safety issue and I think you need stop and think about those that you're targeting.
Rural paramedic are a rare breed. They're also known as Para-gods. Why? Because unlike their counterparts that work in the inner cities they spend sometimes as long as an hour with their patients as opposed to a 6 min transport. This is the most crucial hour of the patients treatment.
Rural paramedics actually practice medicine in the back of a fast moving truck (with truck springs) They deal with life and death and it aint very fkn pretty. They may be on the phone with a receiving hospital trying to hear the doctors orders, the patient may be gasping for breath trying to answer the medics question as to weather he has any alergic reaction to medications etc.. They can't hear him. There are so many examples,some of which I have already mentioned, that you just can't or don't won't to conceed to, that it sure appears that this is way more about you, than it is public safety.
Reason:
I told you that the current law which you say your going to attempt to get new legislation on is written that if the lights are on the siren should be on.
Others have pasted the actual reading of it here. So what are you going to go to the legislature about? Do you really think they're going change it to say what it already says. The law is written in your favor.
Do you think that any paramedic cares about what you think when he can't hear the doctor on the cell phone? Do you think the legislature is really going to side with you on this? Dude.. knock yourself out but if you really are concerned about public safety then you would, for the last time, go down to the local EMS and visit with them ask them about these guys running with lights only. They may say when did this happen and have a great explanation or they mayy say that this shouldn't have happened and they will look in to it.
But one thing I can promise you is that if you go down there with an attitude they are going to laugh at you and tell you go to the legislature until you turn blue.
If you want to go to the legislature for something that would really help then go get them some more money for an airide suspension for the units brush gards and oh oh some units have headsets those are really nice cuz you can't hear when the medics are asking you to pull over for some reason or another. We rural EMS do have to pull over to use the defibrulater and several other types of treatments.
I hope this works out for you and I wish you the very best on this. I really mean this as it appears to have really gotten under your skin. This is my last response on this, as i don't think this is doing anything but making it worse. I do hope you follow up on it and wish the very best in your endeavers.
Blessings,
dave
"Sometimes your the bug and sometimes your the windshield"
Blessings,
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young
dave
"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young