<p>im approaching 2000 hours of comm service...been volunteering for 3 years with my city EMS. Got a bunch of county awards and state recognitions for my work.</p>
<p>wait 2000?!?!!?!?!?! O-M-G.. lol.. wow..thats really awesomeee</p>
<p>wow....and i thought i had alot.....do u like do 12 hour days like everyday over the summer?</p>
<p>i do 17 hours shifts twice a week during the school year and then i do more during the summer</p>
<p>im on the EMS, and became a NYS first responder (im only 17 and in NY you need to be 18 for an NYS EMT here in NY )...and let me just say ive seen more then most medical students. Plus as a 17 yr old, ive also brought life into this world, as well as watch it slip away in my own arms...trust me you will get exposure. Ive only been on for 3 years. </p>
<p>It really did make me realize that i want to go into medicine. I feel i know what im getting myself into, especially when you are holding someones intestines in....im pretty sure you can handle anything after that lol. Trust me though you will see more then any ER volunteer.</p>
<p>It has to look good on med school admissions too, my cousin who is on Mt Sinai admissions told me that because ive been doing it since i was 15, and if i continue it through college, supplemented with high grades and MCAT's, med school admissions would see i have a true passion for it, not to mention the experience.</p>
<p>I doubt you've seen more then most med students. You may have seen more then some students, but not most. Plus you should check your numbers they dont line up. You've been on for 3 years and your 17 that would mean you started when you were 14. But later you say you've been doing it since 15. Also no kid that young would be allowed to deliver a baby. Its just doesn't happen. If anything a police officer or firefighter at the case would do it. And if an EMT where there, they would do it.</p>
<p>oh that's pretty cool too - I shadowed a noninvasive cardiologist about 2 years ago and the nurse let me do a few ecgs</p>
<p>bigndude, you wanna come over here and ask my crew what I did...i will be glad to introduce you to not only the paramedic who was there watching over me, but the mother and her now 2 month old baby daughter. </p>
<p>And as for me seeing more then most med students, ok you're right probably not most, however, i see the mess before they get it. Med students usually dont see the head we find in the backseat of a car</p>
<p>And if you want to be critical...im coming up on my 3rd year in december...care to take anymore jabs at my career...i will be glad to defend myself.</p>
<p>As for the delivering the baby again...look up the New York State Certified First Responder curriculum, same as an EMT, and i want you to especially go look up the OBGYN part of it...i have the training, and have utilized it when i delivered that baby girl. Both are doing fine btw.</p>
<p>I still doubt it, I'm sorry. No Paramedic would let a kid deliver a child. What if the child was stuck in the birth canal and you panicked and didn't know what to do and it died? What if it was choked by its umbilical cord and you panicked because you've never had seen something like this. Its fine if you didn't do it. No one is gonna look at you badly. But something like delivering a child is very very tricky and they don't even let residents do it until they have seen it done before. I also have EMT books, just because you read it doesn't mean that you are ready to do it. It of course is in EMT curriculum because it might happen. A paramedic letting a teenager deliver a child, not likely. The paramedic delivering it, very likely.</p>
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<p>holding someones intestines in....</p>
<p>the head we find in the backseat of a car</p>
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<p>Umm... is this usual for an EMT?</p>
<p>why do u doubt it- hey it could have happened- nothing in this world surprises me ne more</p>
<p>I thought that EMTs just send people to the hospital and do CPR and stuff.</p>
<p>They do very occassionaly deliver babies. The thing is that it is so high risk no one and I mean no one wants to risk malpractice lawsuits by the parents. A person may want to deliver a baby somewhere and EMTs will then deliver it. Usually a women goes into labor for quite a few hours so an EMT would just transport her to the hospital. Now with the risk part. This is one of the riskiest things in medicine today, why do you think some OB-GYNs aren't delivering babies anymore? And a paramedic letting a TEENAGER deliver a child. Just doesn't seem likely. </p>
<p>On the topic of holding in intestines and heads in backseats, yes it happens every once in a while. EMT's will hold in intestines every once in a while, but if someones intestines are out of their body, they are pretty close to dead, if not dead already. So, its not a frequent thing. Now heads in backseats, thats a once in a blue moon type event. It has to be one heck of an accident.</p>
<p>yea it was...made the news, just not the decapitation part. The intestines was a person who just received a colostomy bag and it open, leaving the large intestine exposed outside of the body. It needed to be held in, which i did.</p>
<p>As for the baby, you can say i didnt all you want, i really could care less...i dont need to impress you or make you believe anything. I was there, my crew was there, we know what i did and what i didnt do...the paramedics, EMT's and police had total confidence in me and were there if complications arose...it was a routine delivery, no problems. So say what you want...dont need to defend myself. and bigndude...are you an EMT/firefighter/police officer...because if not, i suggest you stop talking about what we do and dont do, before you make yourself look ignorant.</p>
<p>just because im a teenager, doesnt mean im incapable of being trained in how to do certain things. Part of my course was L&D, i did rounds at the hospital for 2 weeks in L&D...I not only passed the new york state final and practical exams, i scored 100%. If new york state believes im capable enough to delivery a child, I dont see how my age has anything to do with it.</p>
<p>1 more thing to clear something up....the only time you can deliver in the field is when the baby is crowning. Otherwise you pick up and go, this particular woman had been in labor before and usually with your 2nd+ pregnancies, labor goes quicker...in this case it went alot quicker and she crowned in her bed....the baby was delivered in her bedroom and then we transported to the hospital. Maybe you should read your "EMT books" its not exactly an evasive procedure. I knew i would have to move if it became complicated...i was watched the entire time.</p>
<p>In which case you would also know that 2nd pregnancies usually carry more risks, and often times there are more problems that arise. I'll do you one better then EMT guess.</p>
<p>Btw you mind tell me what dept. you are with? It can be in private.</p>