I finely get on to an interesting Net and the last message I get is
from Nov. 7 1996. Either this system I'm on isn't picking up or
there's not much chatter out there.
  E.M.S. sure has changed since I started my first job in South Lake
Tahoe, in 1976. I was looking for a job and dropped by the local
ambulance company, thinking I might get on washing ambulances or
something. The owner of the company walked up to me and asked me
what experience I had. I told him I was in Viet Nam and had my Advanced
First Aid and C.P.R. cards. He threw me a red jacket and said great,
let's go, we have a call. It was like that back then, IF you could do
the job and IF you wanted to do the job, you did it. I worked for that
man for two years, everything you can imagine, heart attacks to car
accidents. I finely, with his help, got my E.M.T. rating and went to
work for a large ambulance company down in Reno.
  After five years of E.M.S. I had a terminal case of "Burn Out" and
got out of it. Let my rating slide and "never" wanted to get into a
rig again.
  Never say Never! I'm back and trying to get caught up on all the
latest developments. I just started my week in the E.R. at our local
hospital. Wow, what a difference. Now we have E.M.T.-B,-C, and A.
  Tahoe has changed some, but it's still no Reno or Sacramento. I'm
still out here with my ass in the wind  but would like to hear
from someone, so I don't feel like I'm the only one.
                                  Stephen
... "Operator, give me the number for 911." "One sec, I'm looking it up."
--- Blue Wave v2.12 [NR]
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