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The National Registry of EMTs has acknowledged that this is the 1st EMT class taught in Iraq they are aware of. 5 students will be completing the course (4 Corpsmen and 1 Marine), and they have all shown a dedication to this class to be admired. They did all the requirements [...]

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Empire Blvd. runs across the southern end of Irondequoit Bay. There is a marina, and you could often see a sea plane moored there.
R News
A small seaplane crashed near Empire Blvd. in Penfield, killing two men.
Friends of the men killed in the crash identify them as David Finger, 57, of Perinton and Michael Barclay, [...]

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Army Commendation Medal for Valor
DVIDS
By Spc. Courtney Marulli, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Public Affairs
FORWARD OPERATING BASE RUSTAMIYAH, Iraq—Being a line medic is more than just being the “doc” in the group. It takes a person who knowingly goes into a hailstorm of bullets to come to the aid of a fallen comrade.
One [...]

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Please see my commentary after the story.
R News
Earlier this month, authorities on the west side of Monroe County arrested and charged a total of four men with sexual misconduct involving girls in The Youth Explorer Program. Youth leaders in posts met Wednesday night at RIT for a refresher course in common sense.
“It’s just basic common [...]

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I ran a little duty this pm.
I’m still trying to decide if the violence in the back of the ambulance caused me any injuries beyond sore muscles.
Let’s just say that a patient objected to having a line started. For about twenty minutes.

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Staff Sgt. Melissa Martinez looks for a vein and prepares an IV for Senior Airman Becky Hopper. Both Airmen are EMTs assigned to Task Force Med at the new Craig Joint Theater Hospital in Bagram Airfield.

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Marine Corps Times
The Purple Heart on Kent Padmore’s chest isn’t for the shrapnel from an enemy rocket-propelled grenade that tore a cheek-to-cheek gash across his face. That wound was never documented; Padmore fixed it himself with a liquid suture in the rearview mirror of his Humvee.
Padmore, a Marine reservist, works in civilian life as a [...]

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We spent at least nine hours in the Emergency Department of Strong Memorial Hospital yesterday. The E/D was renovated and enlarged about three or four years ago and was state of the art at the time, especially for this area.
Now, not so much.
The E/D was overwhelmed yesterday and the lovely wife’s health care reflected that. [...]

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Democrat & Chronicle
Sen. Hillary Rodman Clinton will be in East Rochester on Monday to visit the newly installed fuel cell at the Each Rochester School District, her staff confirmed today.
Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, also will announce recommendations from a “green” building conference she held in Rochester last fall.
She is expected to [...]

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I’m at the base for some hours, trying to volunteer during my period of extended “looking for opportunities”.
A recent call got me thinking about EMS as it relates to, well, call it engineering. The art and science of moving patients to and from the ambulance.
As a basic level EMT, I don’t have a lot of [...]

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