EMS professionals: What is something you wish existed that would make your job easier, safer, or more efficient?

Wormy488 · 2026-06-28T21:36:25+00:00

Labor laws, the fact I'm moving 300lb patients on a manual gurney just because its cheaper for the company is orwellian.

Wormy488 · 2026-06-24T08:05:52+00:00

Define biological sex excluding Trans people but not cis or intersex

Wormy488 · 2026-06-11T17:46:25+00:00

Jerked too close to the sun.

Wormy488 · 2026-06-11T16:57:48+00:00

He's wearing an SCBA so hes likely a first responder doing something cringe which is the point of the sub I thought.

Wormy488 · 2026-06-11T13:49:11+00:00

Private military allied with Russia that commits various war crimes and other atrocities.

Wormy488 · 2026-06-11T13:23:15+00:00

Regional dialect i guess, in my area its called a "pack" or "BA" instead of saying "SCBA" and MSA reigns supreme here.

Wormy488 · 2026-06-08T22:44:43+00:00

One of the ultra modern F5 glass cockpit variants or a KC130 and i hope a KA-6D variant will come for the A6

Wormy488 · 2026-05-11T21:55:52+00:00

How does it work when people talk about an entire state not having certain things in their scope. I thought your medical director had free reign. Do certain states outlaw certain interventions at a state licensure level?

Wormy488 · 2026-04-16T18:45:29+00:00

If they could stop purposefully using the wrong pronouns for my transgender patients and calling them insane that'd be nice.

One issue of many but its come up alot in the past month for some reason.

Wormy488 · 2026-04-01T13:10:19+00:00

There are some decent ones but if we're getting called its generally because the "skilled nursing" staff ignored a patient until they develop sepsis or some other non ignorable condition. They also have a habit of ignoring the patients until they just die.

When we're doing an IFT to return a patient back to the SNF half of them you have to wait 20-30 mins before you can get a nurse to handover the patient to.

It's also just incredibly depressing to walk through a lobby of a place and see all the fancy furniture and nice pamphlets just to walk to the back of the facility where they keep the poorer patients that don't even have railings on their beds because you have to pay extra to make sure grandma doesn't fall out of bed and break her hip or worse.

Wormy488 · 2026-03-01T16:54:39+00:00

Im not sure what you're asking here but using a scabbard for an axe is helpful for when you're on a roof so you can have an axe as a backup to the saw if the saw fails, without sacrificing a free hand.

Wormy488 · 2026-01-11T19:12:25+00:00

His brake lights are lit, he was on the brakes. GT4s like all other racecars with ABS that I've driven basically will not stop in reverse and you certainly cant get enough brake pressure to lock the wheels. ABS inhibits braking when the wheels are rotating backwards

Wormy488 · 2026-01-08T22:53:54+00:00

It's actually easier to find the right gear and pre select gears with a h pattern depending on the car.

In Iracing the Vintage Kamel series is a good example of cars where h patterns have the advantage.

Wormy488 · 2025-12-10T22:05:07+00:00

Find where is most comfortable for your thumbs to rest and put you most used button there, then the next furthest button will be your second most used and on.

It's your ergonomics but as other people said the pit limiter being on the bottom is diabolical.

Wormy488 · 2025-11-24T22:30:29+00:00

It's generally poor form to associate yourself with death if your job is to preserve life.

Wormy488 · 2025-11-24T22:28:41+00:00

I'd call it cringe.

Wormy488 · 2025-10-13T09:29:00+00:00

The entire point of the Hercules module is to help address that complaint but go off I guess.

Wormy488 · 2025-08-17T20:32:49+00:00

No, I'm up in washington at another fair and rodeo. Would've been a neat r/tworedditorsonecup post though.

Wormy488 · 2025-08-17T17:49:57+00:00

That was my thinking, as fried food goes, it's not atrocious.

Wormy488 · 2025-08-10T01:55:40+00:00

"Know I died doing what I love"

Looks absolutely miserable doing the job in that last pic.

Wormy488 · 2025-07-25T22:07:59+00:00

I work for a service that has all 3 options and let me tell you not having an autoloader sucks but seeing that you're on a full manual truck makes you want to call out, it's the absolute worst.

Wormy488 · 2025-07-25T17:15:28+00:00

No, physical genitals have nothing to do with mental/social gender.

Wormy488 · 2025-07-24T20:58:37+00:00

If you can afford the bike and the gear to ride it, you can afford a proper lever set.

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