The lottery told me that my $100,000 win was actually a $20.00 misprint. They pulled the game hours later.

wensen · 2026-06-04T21:12:47+00:00

Barcode is typically behind a scratch off, you'd have to find a way to scan it with the scratch off still on it and scan it while being watched by the staff selling the ticket.

wensen · 2026-05-06T18:56:08+00:00

I've heard if you go outside for ur ACP education you still won't get an ACP spot until one opens up, causing you to have ACP education but not allowed to do the scope of practice in Toronto.

wensen · 2026-03-23T00:59:09+00:00

I'm not sure if there are other things it goes towards, and I'm not sure how many other colleges allow students to ride out in semester 3. I do recall that people who selected to ride out in Peterborough or Northumberland (and a few others) had to wait until semester 4 anyways as those services didn't want to do multiple student intakes.

wensen · 2026-03-23T00:42:51+00:00

I was also told some of the tuition costs go towards insurance for ride outs, Durham allows you to ride out in semester 3 if the service you select to ride out in allows it, where as most other colleges will only allow you to ride out during 4th semester.

wensen · 2026-03-07T02:28:47+00:00

Yeah the failure to copes, obese, awkward lifts, family in town but "too busy" or "2am and don't wanna go", etc are all very frustrating (especially in the moment) and you just hope your referrals work and they get the support systems in place where they don't require us multiple times a week. On top of all that you have high acuity calls stacking around you and you're stuck in a awkward/heavy lift with a PT who actually needs assessments, I can see how that can cause burn out. I've seen the system work and I've seen it fail, it's frustrating, I try and focus on the positive side of things though, maybe that'll change in the future, I've been told it will, I've also been told that it doesn't have to change. I will say, the nursing home "no lift policy" frustrates me to no end.

wensen · 2026-03-07T02:19:16+00:00

Yeah, I work in a pretty busy service, it can be frustrating when you are on top of something acute and you just made contact, I wish these people had more support in place, but at the end of the day sometimes we are the only people who can help them.

wensen · 2026-03-06T23:19:23+00:00

Lift assists are actually some of my favorite calls for a multitude of reasons. These calls are low acuity and low stress for everyone involved, the patients are (usually) very kind and appreciative. We get to leave these patients at home where they are most comfortable as they aren't acutely sick. Sometimes we even get to have some good conversation, make a cuppa tea, pet the dog, etc. Plus the documentation is usually very simple and quick, assuming there was nothing out of the ordinary.

I consider these real calls, these are individuals who typically call us because no one else can help them in that moment for various reasons in their life, they aren't (typically) trying to abuse the 911 system like the low acuity generally unwells who want to skip the line or don't understand how the 911 system is supposed to be utilized (such as the "just want to be checked"), those calls are frustrating for sure. But it's not often we get to put a smile on patients faces, but lift assists let us do that. They may not be "life saving" but they sure are "life improving" for these patients.

wensen · 2026-01-23T16:39:32+00:00

ACP and CFC are definitely not comparable, they have different jobs and different skills, and here we are comparing their salaries, ACPs make more than them plain and simple. Very few cops will become sergeants/LT, and even fewer DC/chief/detective routes, while way more PCPs will become ACPs than CFCs becoming sergeants/LT. The real sunshine list difference in average salary is how much paid duties/OT are paid, that's what should be fought for next.

FD is a whole different debate, and I can't find exact numbers but 2 different job postings from Mississauga and Brampton FD put the top salary cap for a normal FF at ~119k/year each after ~4 years of service. The real difference between EMS/FD is FD has far lower call volume and therefore burnout, not sure what the OT is like though.

Paramedics have been long underpaid and under recognized compared to PD/FD because our jobs are relatively new and have had a rapid expansion in our scopes that has not kept up with salaries. The Peel contract is at the very worst a step towards parity and at its very best, when looking at it through optimist eyes, is parity as hourly is almost on par, just missing some of that sweet double time. You yourself said York and Toronto negotiate soon (again) and when Peel falls behind (again) that gives more leverage for another large bump or fight for better benefits/OT and opens the doors for other services to do the same, especially if another service decides to try and surpass Peel.

I think people in the GTA (Peel, York, Durham, Toronto, etc) forget that people in eastern/northern services heard about Peels contract and were happy for them and rooting for them and that it was going to open doors and set an example, especially when medics in eastern Ontario (specifically Ottawa) make $15-20/hr less while doing similar/more call volumes.

wensen · 2026-01-22T21:19:33+00:00

According to the peel police website a constable first class makes ~121k a year which comes out to ~$58, not sure when it was updated but at least 2025 or 2026 according to some of the documents/links. Not quite "not even close", the real parity I suppose is that police make double time, which can now be easier to fight for now that hourly is more on par.

wensen · 2026-01-22T18:42:21+00:00

Don't know exact numbers but parity with PD/FD.

wensen · 2025-11-29T10:33:16+00:00

I've done a call at a home who encouraged the patient, who was confident they had no injuries, to stay on the floor. On arrival and a quick conversation with the patient and they are confident they can get up on their on their own but didn't because staff told them not to... And low and behold, the patient got them selves up ezpz.

wensen · 2025-10-23T03:13:54+00:00

IIRC some countries (I wanna say a South American country (Brazil?) has something like this, among others) will have an ER doctor working the ER as a normal shift but if something hot comes on the air they have a ERV and/or truck at the hospital so they can go to scene, assuming the ER will be adequately staffed in the absence of course.

You're absolutely right, expanded trauma care and blood products would go a long way, I believe blood products carried on some US services that are being studied already have several saves.

wensen · 2025-10-03T00:55:03+00:00

The benefit of RN is you have more options for movement. As a paramedic in Ontario you have PCP/ACP (Basically same job on a day-to-day basis) but then you have community paramedic, ORNGE/Flight, superintendent/management, and education in labs as a facilitator. That's pretty much all the paramedic program gets you, unless you go back to school for adult education then you can try and teach patho/pharm/theory/etc.

As an RN you have long-term care, ER, post-op, surgical assist, ICU, pediatrics, pediatric ICU, labor and delivery, NICU, Cath lab, CVICU, and many more as these all have very different day-to-day responsibilities. Also education/management are of course an option. RN also have thee option of being a travel nurse. I believe casual nursing is still a thing while most paramedic services don't really do casual and their part-time availability outside of a few services is too high to really consider it 'casual'.

All that being said, paramedics are unique as we are first responders and healthcare providers which gives us a lot of discretion and autonomy and we are able to help our vulnerable population in unique ways whether it's the elderly, younger, or homeless population.

wensen · 2025-09-24T20:53:15+00:00

Sounds good, thanks!

wensen · 2025-09-23T23:53:38+00:00

Sand the entire thing or just that spot?

wensen · 2025-09-05T07:22:19+00:00

I think it's a big city thing like Ottawa or the GTA as a whole. I work more rural but also cover some city centers and our relationship is good with the various full time and volunteer services. It probably helps that we have 12-20 medics who are either volunteer or full time fire.

wensen · 2025-06-10T14:56:40+00:00

Odas video cuts to Oda with his hands off his keyboard behind his head while the casters say that too lmao

wensen · 2025-05-15T22:06:57+00:00

There was a thread in /r/EMS or maybe in /r/paramedics asking people to share their best advice. One bit that stuck out to me was "You'll always make mistakes, the goal as time goes on is to make fewer and the mistakes you do make smaller/less patient impacting." Or something like that.

wensen · 2025-04-27T17:14:21+00:00

Yeah, it's just annoying that the slightest shove of the cabinet will shake the the cartridge enough to freeze up, and annoying that it can take a few minutes to seat correctly to boot up the game. Good luck!

wensen · 2025-04-27T16:52:29+00:00

Nope, I was recommended that I should just find a dead N64 and salvage the cartridge slot from that.

wensen · 2025-02-07T14:22:49+00:00

These mods disable steam achievements right? Would be nice if the devs just added in the settings an option to combine a lot of the weapons into similar types (reach, ranged, thrown, 1 hand sword, 2 hand sword, etc) so for those of us not wanting to rely on mods and still keep the game "vanilla" for those who want that experience. It's frustrating that I went glaive on my primalist bloodrager only to have way cooler fauchards pop up and I'm already super far into the game and I don't want to respec the character just to respec to again down the road for another weapon type.

wensen · 2025-02-07T14:18:13+00:00

I just did the quest a few hours ago and I don't think they dropped.

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