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Your commentsHi there, I've replied to your comments on my talk page (and moved the comment to the bottom) OwainDavies (about)(talk) edited at 14:56, 3 September 2008 (UTC) Manual of StyleHi there ;). Are you aware that Wikipedia has a Manual of Style that must be followed? Unfortunatly, though your recent work to the EMS articles is commendable, the formatting and manual of style is pretty poor. I've 'repaired' the main damage done (namely I've removed level 1 headings, decapitalised all but the first word of all headings, deleted empty headings, and formatted external links correctly), but could I please urge you to go and take a look at WP:MOS, and follow it in the future? Cheers ;). TalkIslander 22:21, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Islander! I will familiarize myself with the Style Guide of course. There's so much in here that doesn't seem meet any kind of style standard that I decided to just go at it from an academic approach, in order to try to clean it up. As you have probably figured out, I'm new to Wikipedia (but not to writing or to the subjects that I write about), and just trying to work things through. I'd welcome any other advice that you might have...please feel free to look at what I post from time to time, and offer suggestions! With respect to the other situation, I suppose that I was just a little frustrated at having two hours' worth of work undone three minutes after it was posted, without any sort of discussion. The only discussion occurred after I objected. I guess that's how it works here. Cheers. Emrgmgmtca (talk) 10:24, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
WPMED banner{{WPMED}} is a talk page banner, and thus should be placed on the talk page instead of the article page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:30, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Citing WikipediaWikipedias, and wikis in general, are not usually considered reliable sources because they can be changed so easily by anyone. It's probably better than nothing, but it would be better to find a proper reliable source. Perhaps a government website? (If the French wikipedia had cited its sources, then you could use that instead, but they don't seem to have done that yet.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:00, 18 September 2008 (UTC) AssessmentAs it happens, I do most of the assessments for WPMED; congratulations on your latest promotion. BTW, you don't have to add the {{not done}} template; the people that watch that page will figure it out. That template is largely used to signal that something has been languishing on the list for lack of a suitable expert. (Nothing wrong with adding it, but it's not necessary if you want to save yourself a little extra time and typing.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:00, 19 September 2008 (UTC) thanksyou have been doing a tremendous amount of work I would like to thank and congratulate you!!! keep up the good work. I have been away for a while due to studying for school as I have very big and expensive test next week. I hope to be on after the test more and look over the pages you have done and re-worked.....again good job! Medicellis (talk) 23:08, 5 October 2008 (UTC) Infoboxes on Emergency medical services by country articlesNice work on all of the EMS by country articles. I'd like to discuss the use of infoboxes on the articles, so I'd appriciate if you would comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Emergency medicine and EMS task force#Infoboxes on Emergency medical services by country articles. Thanks. --Scott Alter 16:27, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
ThanksThanks for your kind note today. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:51, 7 October 2008 (UTC) AssessmentI just wanted to make sure you knew that you were authorized to fix obvious errors in WPMED assessments without consulting anyone. I just updated the EMS in the United States article from Stub to C (see the comments), and it clearly shouldn't have been rated stub! Here's a quick rule of thumb for the lower grades (and you know where to find the more detailed rules):
Even if you've done all the work on an article, you should feel free to self-rate these levels, and to correct ratings at any other WPMED article you ever see. If we're really lucky, the ratings on any given article will be reviewed once every year or two, so any extra pair of eyes is welcome. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC) Request for Help - ReplyHi there, Emrgmgmtca. I'd be happy to copyedit for you - especially since I am an EMT, this will be fun! I'll take a look at it now, and I should be able to finish a copyedit by, say, the end of the week-ish, assuming nothing in my non-wiki life goes haywire in the meantime. Just to double-check - the article is Emergency medical services in the United States? keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 13:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
copy/edit of Emergency Medical DispatcherHey I was wondering if you had some free time if you could copy/edit my EMD page that I created. It was deleted under WP:PROD but I contested it and it was re-instated. I included alot of references in the article but for some reasons, someone thought it did not have enough content. Emergency Medical Disptaching has become a large part of the US EMS system and is used in most Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system that dispatch both FIRE/EMS/POLICE. You have done a wonderful job of expanded on alot of articles I have copy/edited so I was hoping to request you help here! thanks in advance Medicellis (talk) 23:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Re: IP VandalismThanks for the contact. When IP vandalism occurs, we try to give sufficient feedback before temporarily blocking. When we do block an IP, it is temporary and a block of anonymous blockers only. Thus you, as a signed in editor are safe and welcome to edit even though a block on the IP has been put in place. I hope this clarifies things. Happy editing, Kukini háblame aquí 12:45, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Emergency Medical DispatcherYou're welcome; it's nice of you to respond. It's an interesting and important topic, but I think the article is still too repetitive and wordy in places; paring down wouldn't hurt. And it is very US-centric. (I know, I know: the article I'm presently working on is like that, too.) FYI: Norway (not an EU country) some years back discussed emergency numbers. 9-1-1 was considered, as everyone who watches American movies knows that one. For some reason the result was: Fire: 1-1-0, Police: 1-1-2 and Ambulance: 1-1-3. Of course, in an emergency, no one can remember all that. Most people just remember that 1-1-1 is not one of them and try ± 1. I called 1-1-3 once and got all flustered when the guy answered "Emergency Helicopter". He had to talk me into not hanging up. (Neighbor with broken hip didn't need a helicopter.) It's important work, and they sure have to keep their wits about them. BTW, since it's so US-centric, why do you use the spelling 'centre'? --Hordaland (talk) 17:33, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
FYI, I took the excellent work you did and got the article to GA status. I did have to redo a lot of your formatting and do some copyediting, but the bulk of the work was done by you and other previous editors. Your attention to the article prompted me to make the nomination and final changes, and you should be considered a significant contributor to this article's GA achievement. Jclemens (talk) 18:21, 21 October 2008 (UTC) 9-1-1copied from my talk, in case you're not watching that... Ok, after a quick read, it looks like I should be able to get 9-1-1 copyedited...maybe within two weeks? I'd say a week, but real life's a little quirky lately. I'll get started probably tonight or tomorrow. And hey, thanks for asking me - I always like to see a repeat customer ;) keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 21:14, 10 November 2008 (UTC) ObservationI've been thinking about WP:EMS recently. I'm halfway tempted to redirect WT:EMS to UT:Medicellis, because that's the page where I can actually find out what's going on with EMS-related articles. I very much do not want to disrupt your relationship with any editor, but I know you're interested in having a functional EMS task force, so here's an unsolicited suggestion: If you're posting something that might have general interest, you might consider putting it on the EMS task force's talk page instead of, or in addition to, an individual editor's talk page. Communication between members about what they've been doing and what needs to be done is why the task force has a talk page. This sort of "I exist, and I'm working on something" message can be really critical to small projects, because it reminds people about the task force's existence and also makes it possible for more than two editors to work together. Free advice is often worth exactly what you paid for it, so feel free to ignore this if you want. Cheers, WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:29, 19 November 2008 (UTC) Flag of CeutaNo, that was over a year ago. You are affected by this deletion: [1]. Conscious (talk) 14:55, 28 November 2008 (UTC) HelloSorry for the inactivity, Im about finished with RN school and I accepted a Management position at the ambulance company I work for as training and education officer, and assistant Director of Operations. So needless to say I haven't had much time to breath let alone, have fun on wiki.....my wife has been hounding me just to spend time with the little ones. I take my last RN class on the 8th and will finally be ready to take my nursing boards. I hope to take the nursing boards in Jan. After that I will have more time, mabe....I have to decide were my career is going. I neeed to choose my field I guess. EMS unfortunatly has no pay comparied with the nursing field, but I need the management experience. I accepted a full-ride scholorship from the hospital I work part-time and now "owe" them 2 years of work or pay them back 8k for titution they paid for. So again I apologize for my lack of activity.....soon I hope to have more time Medicellis (talk) 20:47, 3 December 2008 (UTC) ambulance driverhi. i understand that some systems have drivers and medics, but that doesnt change the fact that medics (and any other medical personnel on ambulances) find the term, ambulance driver, to be derogatory when it refers to them. i worked for an all als system where we employed emt-basics to mostly drive. they assisted us on scene and we split driving to calls, but when it came to transporting a patient the emt-b was the one driving. in spite of this, nobody who knows better would call them ambulance drivers. they still assisted in pt care. see my point? Brendan19 (talk) 19:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Just to elaborate a bit further, the terms 'Paramedic' and 'EMT' both meant roughly the same level of training, and competed for dominance. It was years before 'EMT-P' became an accepted compromise, while at the same time accepting that the term 'EMT' automatically inferred less training than a 'Paramedic'. That being said, the U.S. has not managed, after nearly forty years, to standardize its own position descriptions or certifications (you have EMTs, EMT-Bs, EMT-Is, EMT-Ps, along with a whole list of other numbers which follow these...none of which necessarily mean the same thing from one state to the next!). Then you have 'Wilderness' medics, 'Farm' medics, 'tactical' medics, 'critical care' medics, 'aviation' medics, and so on. Then you have firefighter/medics and police/medics (what do you call these?). And now, leaving the U.S., you go to Australia, where the term 'Paramedic' is unregulated and used by a lot of people who probably shouldn't. In some places in Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand, they may actually be called 'Ambulance Officers' as their official job title. Elsewhere in Canada, the term 'EMT' is never used, and is offensive to most, since their systems use Primary Care Paramedics, Advanced Care Paramedics, and Critical Care Paramedics, the least trained of which has 1,000 hours more training than an American EMT. In Britain, the terms in use are either 'Paramedic' or 'Ambulance Technician', although they, along with Australia and South Africa are developing Paramedics with a much higher level of training (Master's Degree) who are independent practitioners in their own right. In the German speaking world, the terms used are 'Rettungsassistent' and 'Rettungshelfer', meaning 'rescue assistant' and 'rescue helper' respectively. Even in those cases where the 'Rettungsassistent' is as highly trained as an American paramedic, except for immediately life threatening emergencies, they aren't allowed to even practice their ALS skills unless the physician who responds with them to almost every emergency call is physically present. Holland has ambulance drivers, paired with 'ambulance nurses' who perform all ALS skills independently. France sends physicians and some nurses to do ALS, but anyone else is a 'driver'. India uses 'drivers' as do most developing countries. Finally, my favorite, Italy, where the job title translates as 'the one who works the stretcher'! My point is this...after 40 years WE can't even decide who or what we are, much less agree on a standard set of terminology! The public has to be able to address us without either saying 'Hey, you!' or having to recite your entire resume. Without clear and unconflicting direction from us, the public tends to revert to the last thing that they saw you do, which was drive the ambulance! It really doesn't matter! Firefighters have argued for years that they shouldn't be called 'firemen' ('firemen are the guys who shovel coal in locomotives!') to no avail. The doctors who respond to ambulance calls in Europe are often called Emergency Physicians (in fact, there is no recognized medical specialty by that name in those countries...most are anesthetists!), and they survive the ordeal. You aren't going to be judged by the general public by the number of lights on the ambulance, the number of badges on your coveralls, or the number of letters after your name. In the end, you will be judged and either respected or found wanting, on the basis of your professionalism, skill, and degree of caring. The rest is, from the public's perspective...just gibberish. Food for thought.Emrgmgmtca (talk) 15:16, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
categorizationTry to figure out how to add Procedural sedation to the EM categorization. By the way I do lots of EMS stuff aswell. Been working mostly on EM pages and some preventative health / psyc, but might do some EMS stuff. You are out of Ontario I see. Do much work with Ian Stiell? Thanks --Doc James (talk) 17:39, 17 December 2008 (UTC) Hi again. Can't say that I know Ian Stiell, other than by reputation, but I'm getting to the point where I'm pretty far removed from actual fieldwork. Worked under the Sunnybrook Base Hospital for years, and so, know Brian Schwartz and all of those folks, and of course some of the older emerg docs at the community hospitals. At the moment, I'm responsible for service-related planning (deployment modelling, the major incident plan, pandemic...that sort of thing), but I'm actually retiring from my EMS position after 35 years in mid January. Moving on to other things, and with a freshly minted PhD, I will be doing some teaching and research work related to disasters and their impacts on health care systems. By the way, adding the tag that follows to the top of the discussion page for your article should achieve what you are looking for. If it doesn't work immediately, it will alert the 'bots and the gnomes, who will quietly take all of the additional required measures. It's kind of neat how the place functions in that regard. {{WPMED|class=|importance=|emergency=|emergency-imp=}} Emrgmgmtca (talk) 12:20, 18 December 2008 (UTC) And how does one fill in the last two = signs? --Doc James (talk) 03:34, 19 December 2008 (UTC) emergency=yes. emergency-imp= uses the same codes as importance=. The first is importance to WP:MED overall, while the second is relative importance to this task force. Hope this helps!Emrgmgmtca (talk) 10:53, 19 December 2008 (UTC) TagsHi Emrgmgmtca, I've now "fixed" your template three times so that it doesn't try to add your user page to the EMS article list and shows the entire code... I hope you aren't editing right now and thus being bothered with the repeated notes. This time I've finally got it right. (One of these days, they'll figure out how to do an automatic preview... I hope!) WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:04, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for creating this article. If you could add some inline citations, the article could be put on T:TDYK and displayed on the main page. The content is all there, all that's missing are some inline cites. Thank you, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank u for yours message. I working in polish EMS, so if u will be need more information can write to me. Grettings --Swd (talk) 18:40, 26 January 2009 (UTC) Would like to a category for all medical toxicology / overdoses. Currently the series Toxicology and poison doesn't really touch on ASA overdoses, benzodiazepine overdoses, acetaminophen overdoses, etc. How would one go about doing this? I will come up with a list of substances probably based on goldfrank's. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia's philosophy is be bold! If you feel that the material would benefit from a category that doesn't currently exist, by all means create one. If you are unclear about how to do this I would refer you to our resident expert and WP:MED editor, WhatamIdoing. Cheers Emrgmgmtca (talk) 11:01, 9 January 2009 (UTC) I don't know if you're still watching my talk, so I figured I'd copy this here: Better late than never - I flaked out there for a few weeks, but I just finished up the copyedit of ABC (medicine). Give it a look :) keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 18:09, 2 February 2009 (UTC) February 2009
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Copyedit of Air ambulanceHey, Emr, not sure if you're still around (heck, half the time I'm not sure if I'm still around), but I wanted to let you know that I finally got my act together and did the copyedit of Air ambulance you requested earlier this year. Hope, even this much later, it's still useful for a GA push... keɪɑtɪk flʌfi (talk) 14:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC) Disaster (Emergency) preparedness vs. Emergency managementAdded new comment to Emergency management page. LittleBen (talk) 07:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC) content merge requestHi, see Talk:Emergency_medical_services_in_Australia#user_draft. The draft has been abandoned. John Vandenberg (chat) 11:12, 3 June 2011 (UTC) File permission problem with File:Welly Unit.jpeg Thanks for uploading File:Welly Unit.jpeg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license. If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
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