The Probie

To everyone working this weekend. Hang in there. We can do this.

Day shifters are weird

I have found bandaid to EMS burnout. Be extremely nice to everyone, all day, no matter how salty you feel. It rubs off on you.

Training with the mindset "I'll be the hardest man anyone tried to kill" might just put you on a whole new level.

@SmokeEater1978 These people need to be charged by the pound after 2 calls of service in 1 year.

Put this into consideration. Do you love someone enough that you'd live in the memory unit for them? If not....they ain't the one.

Train hard today, train harder tomorrow. Be an animal.

It's a tragedy to this service to shame and discourage those who train and commit to excellence. Don't be that guy.

Why is the phrase "that's not how you really do it on calls" still around in modern day? Why arnt academy's teaching the real way? Dumb.

I've determined that 75 percent of my calls somehow involve drugs or alcohol.

We all get to that point as a confident medic until that one call knocks you back off your feet all over again

Wish these academy's would bring in experienced firemen and teach aggressive attack instead of these young defensive minded probies.

We loose to brothers in the line of duty but @CNN can't take their eyes off a body camera. Show some respect to those who have earned it.

Plain and simple big egos cost big losses for everybody on the department and its mission.

@E4Capt_PartDeux "But times have changed and we need to be prepared" True, stage even further away and don't go in until it's secured. Done

I don't know much. What I do know is I'll follow the 20 year back step ff before the 5 year guy that made captain with little experience.

"I'll test for captain in 5 years." How are you thinking about being a captain when you haven't even finished the academy? Pray for us.

A department who promotes a 5 year guy with a degree over a 20 year guy who's crawled some hallways and seen his share. This isn't okay

"Medic 1, you'll be paired with 4 officers to tactically triage, be advised of an active shooter" Instantly out of service mechanical/mental

Recently I'm on a IM narcan kick. Finding it to be very consistent and reliable. Thoughts on IM+BVM and skipping the IN/IV all together ?