Oof, been there. Chin up and try again, OP’s friend!

It was literally all about the money. After 6 years as an EMT-B I thought “hey this career is pretty great, if only there was a way I could be compensated decently for it”. So I went to paramedic school. You don’t know me

I think I misunderstood your comment

Hey bud, word of advice from someone that started in EMS early too… go for medic ASAP if you think you like the field. Lifting less feels amazing on my back and knees, and I get paid more

My parents told me there’s an invisible spanking machine in the closet that malfunctioned and accidentally spanked their first kid too much and that’s why I’m now the oldest... Parents are just us when grown up and say wild shit sometimes because it’s funny to them and kids are stupid

To answer your other question, a small amount of oxygen is dissolved in the plasma (~0.3ml O2/100ml blood) and doesn’t bind to hemoglobin.

This here is a great place to learn more https://www.cvphysiology.com/Microcirculation/M002

Of course, it being Risk, there definitely was collusion

Not yet :/ All my dead bodies have been pretty standard up to this point. Still on the lookout for a funny one

He came as he went

I’d take that over rapidly draining my kids’ inheritance on shitty nursing home fees

The Dwarves are my guilty pleasure punk band. Are they gross and fucked up? Hell yeah, but they write bangers. “so let’s get high and fuck some sluts” is the best chorus in a song I’ve ever heard

A vagal maneuver to lower blood pressure is worth a shot

They did a lot of cleanup over the last few decades. I still wouldn’t eat anything from it, but I do swim occasionally

r/confidentlyincorrect. Why say anything if you don’t know what you’re talking about?

“This dude has literally 0 idea wtf he’s talking about” is incorrect because he’s applying his singular experience in Colorado to someone working elsewhere under different protocols. We transport dead bodies in my state. The guy I responded to said that’s not what happens. He’s objectively wrong and I called him out on it as a higher level of care provider. In my area, doctors pronounce the patient 99.99% of the time. If someone works in a different system where things are done differently I wouldn’t tell him he’s wrong

I responded directly to the EMT above me. He’s wrong too but he was more confident about it. We transport dead bodies sometimes

Bro, you can both be right depending on where you work. I’m a medic, and we bring in dead pts if the doc is in the mood. Pulseless vtachs and vfibs usually end up getting transported. Asystole almost never. Sometimes PEA. Stop and remember for a second that America is a massive and diverse place and your experience isn’t the same as everyone else’s. Don’t talk down to him when you’re just as wrong

She has your money.

I love Christian hip hop “My crew is big and it keeps getting bigger”

Well that’s different

A guy who was interesting when yelling

Every stadium is now “Corporation Name+Field/Stadium/Arena”: No more names, just sponsors. And it’s still not enough money for the teams, since prices are unreasonable for normal people