Hey, Chris Nold!  Remember the message about Re: RE: UNIONS?
You said to Tom Patierno on 18 Oct 96  01:38:11...
-> Would you believe that in most states and in Canada, Emergency
-> Medical Services are not considered "essential" services?  They are
CN> I heard that a physician was giving talks at EMS conventions that
CN> paramedics are having no good effect at saving lives, and recommends
CN> that EMTs are all that's needed. Seems we need to go back to the
CN> load'n'go days of the dinosaurs..go figure. I guess that's being
CN> considered non-essential...
I'd be willing to bet that medicine is not the main thing that is motivating 
this man to talk this way.  I can show you where Electrocardioversion and a 
round of drugs have saved quite a few individuals, and all prehospital.  Who 
hires this chooch to talk at the EMS conventions in the first place?  >:-(
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