"but I've also treated more gunshot wounds than most military medics that have been to war" states GG.
Of all the ignorant, self aggrandizing statements that you have made this tops the list.
mike r
Please expand, why is that statement ignorant and self aggrandizing?
My 25 year medical career started as an army combat medic in 1966 w/ 27 months in Vietnam w/ several units regularly engaged in heavy combat. The next 21 years were spent as an UC cop, an EMT, paramedic and PA. I worked for the first 9 years as a street medic in LA and Las Vegas, both intense environments w/ high call volumes. I then spent 2.5 years working 12 hour days in trauma centers in Denver and Las Vegas. The next 12 years I was a vetted govt. contractor working on SRT units worldwide.
I saw far more GSWs in the 1st 2 years than all the rest of a rather event filled career.
You talk crap that you can't back up. Which hard core ghetto was it that produced such a huge percentage of GSW calls? Let's hear it.
mike r
In terms of exposure to combat, Vietnam is an anomaly. Never before or since has US soldiers been exposed to so many days in combat; we learned a lot of lessons from that war and we don't do that to soldiers anymore.
So with the exception of a Vietnam medic, my statement stands. My cousin was a medic in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and he told me that he encountered GSW victims about 2-4 per week per 6 month tour. Using that as an average, I've treated MUCH more GSW victims.
I averaged 2-4 GSW victims per month working full time as a paramedic, and I was a paramedic for 16 years. So do the math.
