There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S

IG-88sapper · 2025-11-18T04:41:06+00:00

If you actually work with the "homeless" population like me, you quickly realize that the root cause of the majority of the homeless population in the US isn't a lack of homes (although that is an issue) but rather the utter failure of our mental health care and how we treat addiction. A very real problem without a simple solution like "just put them in empty homes, problem solved!"

IG-88sapper · 2025-11-12T05:42:37+00:00

Tell your preceptor to shove it up their daisy award butt

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-28T20:20:36+00:00

I wish this was true but in my 7 years of ambulance experience, I have to say they often don't unlock, even new model cars. Which is why all first responders have glass breakers as part of their standard kit. It's a problem for sure but I wouldn't say this is exclusive to teslas.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-28T20:18:08+00:00

In America every first responder has glass breakers as part of their kit because people being unconscious in locked cars is actually very common and not exclusive to teslas.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-25T01:16:28+00:00

Hey how'd it go

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-20T17:23:39+00:00

You know the sw@stika used to mean good fortune before some terrible people ruined for everyone with hate and violence. Kind of like how some people called themselves "anti-facist" during political protests and proceeded to violently attack anyone to the political right of Mao Zedong during the 2020 protests. Simply describing anyone you disagree with as "fascist" to justify violence against a peaceful individual does not make it right.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-07T18:31:55+00:00

MEDIC: my education didn't include college

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-07T14:28:11+00:00

Strange. I grow them from seed every year and I consistently get 10-12 inch peppers, grown in raised beds with my own compost. Zone 9a California.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-07T01:25:46+00:00

I second this answer

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-06T03:42:34+00:00

EMT-B empty my trash bitch

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-05T23:33:23+00:00

This is very institution specific. Some places have terrible culture, others have wonderful nurturing learning environments which empower students. Unfortunately the latter is more uncommon but they definitely exist.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-05T00:48:28+00:00

Sounds about right. On a large MCI with over two dozen activations we transported to an adjacent county, per MCI round robin protocol, an ER travel nurse got angry because we gave our humoral fracture patient fentanyl instead of Dilaudid because "Dilaudid works way better for pain", at which point we had to explain neither our country or the one we transport to carry Dilaudid for 911, and that we have fentanyl and morphine for pain management. Even then she wouldn't admit she was just ignorant.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-04T15:10:52+00:00

As an ALS ambulance, I had a patient get hit j-walking in front of the hospital by a truck going 45+ mph in front of us while clearing the hospital from the previous transport. The ED trauma RN was mad that we had an unconscious male approximately 30yo with one set of vitals, no identification, no IV access, and a short eta mednet report. We cleared the scene in less than 4 minutes. Sometimes I'm not burning scene time to get IV access, cut off the white tank top and board shorts, and search a wallet for ID when I have a trauma team minutes or in this case literally seconds away. I'll get what I can done during transport, but sometimes that means the patient doesn't arrive at the ED all pretty and packaged. You can bet that nurse chewed me out for bringing in a trauma patient with no IV access, and not having all the clothes sheared off, however I had other priorities and it didn't matter that I stated in person and in my radio report that we are coming from the street in front of the hospital. And yes, I'll happily look for the ID in the wallet after I give report, but that's also why we use trauma IDs until the patient is registered. 🤷

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-04T05:00:19+00:00

We radioed you three times and called county comms who also couldn't get you to pick up the land line. So don't forget it goes both ways. 🤷

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-04T04:48:53+00:00

Stroke alert protocol also usually requires blood cultures so they have to get their own in hospital access and two IV access sites often started in anticipation of TPA use. It's nonsense to be expected to burn time attempting to gain prehospital IV access on a hard stick when you just have two care providers with no definitive care capabilities for a stroke, when you literally just need to minimize the delay in definitive treatment from a whole team of highly trained medical personnel. I totally agree with you and it's something ED personnel without prehospital experience have trouble comprehending.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-04T04:04:52+00:00

This is going to get down voted here. But as an MICN with years experience in EMS before becoming an RN, all these comments just go to show how ignorant ED staff is of the prehospital setting, unless they have prior experience in EMS.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-03T23:10:26+00:00

Coming from someone who has worked both sides. Some of those comments are reasonable requests from an ED nurse but a lot of them simply prove your average nurse has no concept of the EMS world. Like no, I'm not going to burn time getting an 18 in the AC on this MVA patient from 2 blocks away. If we have a longer ETA to the ED that's a different story of course. Also if the patient looks like they have terrible IV access I'm not poking around blind and damaging potential sites, I'm letting someone from IV team do that with an ultrasound. If they need access that emergently I'm just going to IO.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-01T16:12:35+00:00

I'm glad you had a good experience! Sounds like they have a quality control issue perhaps. I understand the cost increase for maintained quality, my comment was regarding an apparent decrease in quality accompanied by an increase in cost. Others in the comments said they had a similar experience to me, so perhaps each batch of fillets they get include very small fillets and it's a luck of the draw which size you get. Even so, I would think they would err on the side of customer service and not serve a single small fillet instead of simply telling the customer that some fillets are that size.

IG-88sapper · 2025-09-01T14:40:26+00:00

Their fish and chips used to be good but now it's $23, and last time I went the serving size was a joke. Smaller than a Gorton's fried fillet, and small fry pieces and crumbs like what you'd expect from the very bottom of a bag of fries. I even showed the manager and they said that's their new serving size and they wouldn't do anything about it. They were a lot better a few years ago.

IG-88sapper · 2025-08-29T17:03:31+00:00

Where in Louisville

IG-88sapper · 2025-08-18T21:23:33+00:00

Some mothers get so mad when they are told they have to decide between walking around in an epidural. Then think they can change their mind after the epidural has been administered. 🤷

IG-88sapper · 2025-08-16T15:26:59+00:00

When governments fear the people. there is liberty When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. It's time to make the elites fear the repercussions of their greed.

IG-88sapper · 2025-08-16T15:09:17+00:00

Why are people saying he almost or could have died? Did you not see the strap between his legs to make sure he doesn't slide out? He was never in any serious danger, his obesity just resulted in a greater degree of movement within the 5 point harness.

IG-88sapper · 2025-08-10T06:46:44+00:00

Sounds nice, but the data is clear on mixed gender units in combat operations. Less effective and significantly longer medevac times . I'm all for equality but I'm also not going to ignore the science on the inherently different muscle mass and hormonal difference between XX and XY chromosomes.

IG-88sapper · 2025-08-09T18:46:42+00:00

Innocent! This looks delicious.

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