Tom Reynolds has had a slow month, and was moaning blogging about it.  From his post:  Watch the ambulance crew after a 'decent job', they'll be standing outside the ambulance bay at the hospital chatting to their colleagues. They'll be animated, they'll be interested in their job but most of all they will have a sense of satisfaction of a job well done.

We're being pushed aside by a wall of eager volunteer firefighters as they scramble to enter the trailer.  They go running down the very narrow hallway to render care.  Unfortunately it's too late. The occupant has apparently died in his sleep.

This may be a good thing - for them. Had this person simply been sleeping, or drunk/drugged, and a pace of strangers in civvies came thundering into my bedroom, the outcome could have been different.

One thing I've noticed in this bidness is the glaring polarity of my patients.Their reactions to circumstances can often be found at the very ends of the spectrum.

We're on the South side of the bay, checking out some visiting Canadian warships, hoping to finagle a tour. But, we get interrupted by the radio, dispatching us to an "assist the police" call on the other side of the harbor on one of the docks.

"The notion of someone other than a respiratory therapist providing care to patients with breathing problems is preposterous."

This is one line out of a story about threats to Respiratory Therapists and their jobs. The gist of the story is that while RT's have been worried about Nurses taking doing the RT function&taking away their jobs, it's actually the EMT that they need to be worried about.

Another quote: