Was actually June 1st. Anyway, the instructor of my class, in addition to being a paramedic, is also a police officer, and within the first hour of the first class fulfilled the following two cop stereotypes:
1) made fun of federal officers AKA "feds";
2) made fun of highway patrol officers; see Supertroopers.
He also said that many EMTs have or may develop strange, almost sadistic senses of humor, as a sort of coping mechanism for the situations they may find themselves in during calls; you can't take an emergency too seriously because it'll stifle you if you do, he explained, and you may not be able to act as a result. And so, I thank you, o_car@panlists.yale.edu.
From the grave of anyone who died too soon because of a faulty defibrillator,
Sa"clear!"gar
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Hahhaa. Remind me to tell you stories about my EMT ride team. Preview: I got a half hour lecture on why we should have left one guy to die.
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