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Sephy90
United States1785 Posts
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lannisport
878 Posts
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Renent
Canada302 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
On September 12 2012 06:28 Renent wrote: I don't lie to myself about what I do. I don't make it good in my mind. On most days I work a majority of my shift including timing out at 16-18 hours. Usually when I talk to my other EMS related buddies or work partners the calls are 100 percent truth, because bullshitting Ricky Rescues are identified quick. If I lied about my call, chances are my fellow workers are going to audit the PCR and then call bullshit on my stories. Partners not trusting each other does not bode well for the working relationship. Sorry, I just wanted to give my perspective as your post does NOT represent EMS in my view. However, I don't work where you work so it could be 100 percent of a different community where you are. Hm, it is my experience, and nothing else. I probably made it sound worse than it actually is, you just make your stuff look a bit better. Even to yourself. Into that ties that most volunteers are 20-25 years and just keep doing it after they finish civil service - so it's mostly male almost-adults. Gotta determine who has the longest and biggest. And saying "patient X just pooped on my hand" is not manly enough. Also, you "lie" afterwards. I know my colleagues, and I know I can work with them. Otherwise I wouldn't. There are some who just spew baseless shit all the time, and I refuse to work with them because I see them endangering the patients. Be it through lack of knowledge, but mostly by the way they drive (biggest problem with overly arrogant people imo) I also live in a rather rural area, and "good" emergencies almost never happen (though we have a ton of funny ones), so when they do, people that had it just HAVE to rub it in. Like I said, it sounds worse than it is - it's just boys being boys. When it counts, you do what you can. Everything else comes afterwards and doesn't really matter. Just my 2 cents on this. | ||
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Renent
Canada302 Posts
On September 12 2012 07:34 Dandel Ion wrote: Hm, it is my experience, and nothing else. I probably made it sound worse than it actually is, you just make your stuff look a bit better. Even to yourself. Into that ties that most volunteers are 20-25 years and just keep doing it after they finish civil service - so it's mostly male almost-adults. Gotta determine who has the longest and biggest. And saying "patient X just pooped on my hand" is not manly enough. Also, you "lie" afterwards. I know my colleagues, and I know I can work with them. Otherwise I wouldn't. There are some who just spew baseless shit all the time, and I refuse to work with them because I see them endangering the patients. Be it through lack of knowledge, but mostly by the way they drive (biggest problem with overly arrogant people imo) I also live in a rather rural area, and "good" emergencies almost never happen (though we have a ton of funny ones), so when they do, people that had it just HAVE to rub it in. Like I said, it sounds worse than it is - it's just boys being boys. When it counts, you do what you can. Everything else comes afterwards and doesn't really matter. Just my 2 cents on this. I misread into what you were getting at a bit I think, when I initially read it it seemed like you were speaking for EMS as a whole. Yeah, I work a mainly rural almost always BLS service, the cool thing is you get that nice long transport times and get to actually go through most of your protocols etc rather than just being at the hospital within 2 minutes, the down side is you get nice long transport times to twiddle your thumbs... TBH, the "coolest" stuff I have seen is when we have been called into our rural hospital for back up... We also have some great locum doctors out here that are really into teaching. Are you suggesting I didn't take that poop on my hand like a champ? It's my current war story | ||
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Master of DalK
Canada1797 Posts
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GTPGlitch
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On July 01 2011 15:20 Snet wrote: From before the blog series began. Here are some excerpts from blogs that have been deleted:I had a bestfriend from my childhood. I knew him since the fourth grade. Immediately we became best friends. We played diablo together. Diablo II came out, we came our pants. Lord of Destruction came out... are we in heaven? Eight years later we graduated highschool. I chose the educational route. Regular college wasn't for me. I couldn't find a passion. So, I went to EMT school, and started working on an ambulance for $10/hour. He chose the uneducated route. He moved out of his parents house working on minimum wage. His parents helped him pay rent. He fell in love with a girl who was in her senior year of highschool. (his first girlfriend, so naturally he was obsessed with her). She went off to college. He decided to follow her. He moved out of state with 0$ to his name, but a heart full of love. I continued with my EMT work. I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 1700-0500. What shitty hours for a twenty year old. Practically no social life. But the money was good for my age, and the job was self-rewarding. During the week I volunteered at the local rescue squad to burn time (basically doing what I do on the weekends for free). This became my life. Other than that it was all starcraft, parties, and chicks if I was lucky enough. I'm no romeo, mind you. My friend called me up. His girl dumped him and cut him off from her life completely. He was sleeping in her dorm at that time so he did not have to worry about rent. Now he was homeless. Broke. He needed help. He was lost in a entirely new city with fast food income. He asked me for a loan of $1,000. I had the money to spare after hundreds and hundreds of hours of stressful, long, and often saddening hours of emergency medical services. He was my best friend. I trusted him with my life. It was not even half an hour before I sent him the money. I trusted him that deeply. My money helped him survive. He was able to rent a place with several roommates so his rent was cheep. My life became very busy. I decided to take it one step further and become a paramedic. That means two more years of intense school. Not even counting clinical hours. We grew out of contact slightly. Down to about one phone call a month. I got the call. "Snet, I'm coming home" He was moving back to town! Then things turned for the worst. "Yea, Snet, I don't have a job but I have a hookup in MD.. gonna grow some green man... I'll be making more money than I ever did." Ok, whatever.. although I don't smoke, I don't see anything wrong with marijuana. I've seen people die first hand to almost every other elicit drug, but never pot. Months pass by. This kid is smoking his own merchandise. I mean like EVERDAY, 24/7. He is getting ridiculous. He starts linking me to dozens of random youtube videos about "The secret", "the zeitgeist", and several, several other propaganda videos. He left me a voicemail. "Snet, you are in danger. You and your family will die very soon unless you listen to me. I have researched things you don't even know. I need you as my ally. Hear me out or you will die." I woke up in the morning and listened to that voicemail. I was like...uhhh ...... So I talk to him and he tells me about dozens of different government conspiracies. "OK" I told him, "I do not care for these things" He became angry. He said I should trust him. Said I was risking my life, said I was going to die. I told him, "Dude, listen.. I'm not saying I don't trust you, I'm just saying I don't care for the things you are researching and trying to get me to believe." He said, and I quote: "You faggot" WTF? He continued to attack me, and call me an ignorant sheep. He said I hope you enjoy dying. You will starve and die when the system falls. I was like wtf... I grew tired of it. I told him: "Look man, i'm not saying i don't trust you but I do not want to join anti-gov groups!" He continued to call me sheep. I told him. "Look man. You are my best friend. I will always be there for you. I even gave you $1,000 when you asked me for help. Stop attacking me because I don't agree with you on this." He told me..... "Want your money back? Sue me. Good luck finding me." He deleted me off facebook and won't answer his phone. He also has no fixed address so I'ts hard to find him. So I stand here before you, TL, in utter disbelief. Although it makes no difference how I earned my money...but, I spent over 100 hours attempting to save lives.... only to "loan" it to this kid, and never get it back. I don't even know if I want to pursue this kid. Do I want to sue someone like him? He will never be able to pay me back, and I don't even know where to find him, so I can't serve him. He's never had over $50 to his name so even if I do sue him, god knows how long it will take to see any payback. I knew this kid around nine years, and we were literally best of friends.. like brothers. To him, $1000 was enough to trash our friendship. My eyes have been opened. People can, and will turn on you whenever it is convenient to them. TL, I can only hope that you will not become that person. It breaks hearts. From: Ride the bus? Please realize over fifty (50) volunteers, including volunteer EMTs. volunteer medics, and volunteer firefighters responded within five (5) minutes of dispatch. From: Crash Landing Do you know that feeling when you wake up on your day off, and you panic for a second after you wake..thinking.."am I late for something..am I late for work??" Then you realize...silly, Snet, today is your day off. Such a wave of relief.... [...] When I was searching the living quarters I hear a dispatch that I have never heard before. Area box 703 in the area of 12341 Hollywood Dr, for the plane crash. CO7, CO79, CO19, CO13, CO 3, CO9, CO 39, M1 due to respond You could have put a brick wall between me and my crew and it would not have slowed us down. There are others, but there are a lot of references to working for free. As well as tons of consistency between the stories. So either snet has fooled us all with an incredibly well hung together story, or, (and this is more likely) he works as an EMT and also does volunteer EMT'ing. But hey, I'll let the man clear this up for himself. | ||
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
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Renent
Canada302 Posts
Which is it, you love getting paid to do it or You wouldn't trade volunteering for getting paid? | ||
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On September 12 2012 12:24 Snet wrote: My blogs are not a chronological timeline. I write stories from things that happen the current day I write them, and some that happened in the past. I have been a volunteer for four years but have also held several jobs in the medical field including a paid EMT position, and positions in an emergency department. Sorry for any confusion. There we go, drama over, carry on as usual. | ||
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Suc
Australia1569 Posts
On September 12 2012 12:24 Snet wrote: My blogs are not a chronological timeline. I write stories from things that happen the current day I write them, and some that happened in the past. I have been a volunteer for four years but have also held several jobs in the medical field including a paid EMT position, and positions in an emergency department. Sorry for any confusion. Ah okay, that makes sense, thanks for coming back and giving the clarification. | ||
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On September 12 2012 12:24 Snet wrote: My blogs are not a chronological timeline. I write stories from things that happen the current day I write them, and some that happened in the past. I have been a volunteer for four years but have also held several jobs in the medical field including a paid EMT position, and positions in an emergency department. Sorry for any confusion. If you could write that in the blog it would be terrific also, any reason on why you deleted all your old blogs? | ||
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
Meaning that those who have read and enjoyed previous stories would be more likely to read my book if they knew old stories I deleted were in the book. Amateur marketing scheme. | ||
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Corazon
United States3230 Posts
But also, you are a kick ass person. Keep on being awesome k? | ||
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mynameisgreat11
599 Posts
In my city, there are volunteer programs to help others in need. Why do I do it you ask? Because it allows me to talk down to others, no matter how little education or how inflated my ego may be. I have been helping the homeless for almost 2 years now. In my 'boy am I an awesome guy' daily planner, I've kept very close track of every hour I've ever spent helping others. You may ask, why do I keep such close track of my hours? Wouldn't my selfless work be enough satisfaction by itself? The answer, of course, is no. My selfless acts are meaningless by themselves. If I don't share them with others, how will they know of my selflessness and good deeds? Sometimes I wonder why I spend so much time with the homeless, with the poor souls that society pushes aside. 8, 10, 12 hours pass, day by day, when I could be earning money, gaining an education, or meeting friends. The answer? So I can tell people about it later. Girls at bars. Family at christmas time. My fellow brethren, my fellow starcrafters. They need to know the power, the awe, that happens when you hold another person's life in your hands, they need to know that their lives are meaningless without experiencing it. They will never know happiness, joy, or the true meaning of life unless I tell them about it from my amazing, unpaid, unsung experiences. I love life. I love working for free. I love telling people about it later. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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Renent
Canada302 Posts
On September 12 2012 14:13 mynameisgreat11 wrote: Many of you do not realize I don't get paid for my work. I volunteer. In my city, there are volunteer programs to help others in need. Why do I do it you ask? Because it allows me to talk down to others, no matter how little education or how inflated my ego may be. I have been helping the homeless for almost 2 years now. In my 'boy am I an awesome guy' daily planner, I've kept very close track of every hour I've ever spent helping others. You may ask, why do I keep such close track of my hours? Wouldn't my selfless work be enough satisfaction by itself? The answer, of course, is no. My selfless acts are meaningless by themselves. If I don't share them with others, how will they know of my selflessness and good deeds? Sometimes I wonder why I spend so much time with the homeless, with the poor souls that society pushes aside. 8, 10, 12 hours pass, day by day, when I could be earning money, gaining an education, or meeting friends. The answer? So I can tell people about it later. Girls at bars. Family at christmas time. My fellow brethren, my fellow starcrafters. They need to know the power, the awe, that happens when you hold another person's life in your hands, they need to know that their lives are meaningless without experiencing it. They will never know happiness, joy, or the true meaning of life unless I tell them about it from my amazing, unpaid, unsung experiences. I love life. I love working for free. I love telling people about it later. I actually hoped so bad this would have ended with "I am the Bat". I have no clue why.... | ||
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
You can't write nonfiction in present tense unless its in chronological order, otherwise your focused more on moving a reader via their senses rather than your nonfiction message. In fact changing tenses or overall tones of nonfiction writing can only mislead or cause confusion in readers who are reading what they expect to be nonfiction. after hearing your explanation of how you write about events past/present and not in a chronological order I now can't read future writings with a pure nonfictional standpoint and because of that I can no longer appreciate and enjoy that deeper connection I once had of nonfictional glory. I just can't trust if the story has been sensationalized to a point where too much of the truth has been lost or not, "did this actually happen today? or was it 4 years ago?" and as soon as those questions come the meaning of the work becomes far less moving in my opinion. you can do all kinds of things with nonfiction writing...Dramatic nonfiction feeds off of a readers appreciation and connection with live and real events in life. you can dress it up, sensationalize everything, make it sound more amazing than it actually was, add rich details, maybe stretch the truth in some areas to add a sort of dramatic flair. This allows readers to become more immersed in the situation as seen through your eyes. But once you start changing the framework of the writing, the tense and overtones of the entire message,(which are coherently fictional practices) you risk jeopardizing that nonfiction connection you shoot for in readers. "today I was almost killed." means alot more if I'm actually telling the truth and actually talking about today. "Oh jk that was actually 4 years ago. lawlawl" isn't the truth, its an over-sensationalized misrepresentation of something that happened and not true. There I think I explained myself decently enough, I can go to bed happy now. But still sad that I'll never be able to read a Snet blog the same again. | ||
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
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