From The Daily Mail:
"Sabrina Erdely - employed writer at Rolling Stone Magazine says she isn't going anywhere despite the news that the UVA Rape Story was completely fabricated.
Erdely states her job is secure because she hasdirt on founder Jann Wenner and his son Gus Wenner. She has threatened to spill Jann Wenner's secrets to exwife Jane, which will cost Jann Wenner even more money but more importantly, might cost his children to choose their mother over Jann, and Jann suffers from extreme self adulation; it would crush him.
Erdely also confided to several close friends that many employees of Rolling Stone have carte blanche to do what they want because they have evidence connecting Jann Wenner to the movie/documentary "An Open Secret" about the pedophile problem in Hollywood (which is why wife Jane left Jann who then took a gay lover). It's not only a problem (using clout to lure teenage boys to bed) in Hollywood, it's a problem throughout the entertainment industry. Rolling Stone knew going in that UVA story was false but even if it came out, it would take focus off the story that has been brewing about Jann Wenner's association and participation in these parties.
Erdely approached Wenner about doing a story Iasha Rivers, former volunteer for Al Sharpton's National Action Network and Macy executive . Ms. Rivers is an stunningly beautiful young African American woman who accused Civil Rights attorney Sanford Rubenstein (a white man in his 70's and attorney for Eric Garner's family at time of accusation) of raping her following Al Sharpton's 70th birthday party.
Wenner is said to have laughed (though it's not clear if it was Jann or his son Gus who is said to be running things (into the ground) and admonished Erdely, "You don't bite the hand that feeds you." And stated that if she continued to pursue the Rivers article, she'd be ostracized."
My observation: it's ironic that the Left still continue to rally around Sabrina Erdely, however, she was warned that if she defends a black female by going after a white civil liberties lawyer - she will be vilified by the left.
Here's another recent article in the New York Post about Sanford Rubenstein and his 21 year old black girlfriend who states he wanted to see her raped by a gang of men. Wow.
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Unleaded Gas In The Diesel Ambulance
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for
it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the
obstacles that will invariably come your way."-Les Brown
My first day on the job as an EMT in Quakertown (Medic 108)
the Chief calls me in the office and says, “Why don’t you take the ambulance
out and drive around the town and familiarize yourself with the streets.”
“By
myself?”
“Is
that a problem?”
“Well.
No.” I had really really wanted this job. I’d been working in
an office, vomiting every morning before I drove to work because I hated it so
much. When the call came to work for Medic 108 in Quakertown (three months
after I’d put in my application), I felt I’d won the lottery.
“Take
108-4. The keys are in the garage.”
“Sure.
Sure.” I start to turn around and he stops me.
“You
HAVE driven an ambulance before, right?”
I’m
facing the door. “Well, no." I confess. "But you never asked that
when you interviewed me.”
He doesn’t respond so I turn around; his head is face down
on a pile of papers on the desk, and he starts softly pounding his head on the
desk. Finally, he lifts his head just enough so he can speak to me, “Just
take the rig and drive very carefully around town. Do you think you can handle
that?”
“Sure.
Of course. Not a problem.”
So
off I go, driving around the small town, thinking how much better this is than
sitting at a desk and watching the second hand tick away the most boring
moments of my life. After awhile I feel very confident with the big rig, and
pull into a super market parking lot to get a bottle of ice tea and a yogurt.
As
I try to squeeze between a van and a station wagon, I accidentally hit the
station wagon.
OHNOOHNOOHNO.
My
father’s voice calmly speaks to me, “Park somewhere else, wait for the driver
to come back to the car, and explain what happened.”
So,
I glance around to see who was watching. No one.
I
back up, move a few rows above the car and park where there are no cars. I walk
to the station wagon and am totally relieved that there isn't a dent or
scratch. God Bless strong, sturdy, old cars.
Now I'm torn.
Should I wait for the driver? No dents, no marks, no harm, right?
But I was taught to
be honest - and what if someone saw the bump...what if it's on a camera? I'm
sweating. This is my first day on the job. I quit an office job that I hated so
much I would pull over and vomit on the way to work. I hated being confined. I
hated how boring it was. This was the job I never thought I'd want growing up -
but now that I had it, I could think of no place else I'd rather be.
I
don’t want to lose this job.
I
bargain with myself, “I’ll go in, buy my lunch, and if I come back out and the
car is still here, I’ll wait for the driver.”
I
turn my father’s voice off and walk into the grocery store with a pounding
heart, sweating hands, and every person I see I try to figure out if they
belong to the station wagon.
I stand in front of the dairy section for about ten minutes.
The radio I brought in with me squawks…it’s my Chief.
“You
making out okay? Are you lost?”
“No,
I’m fine. Just getting lunch.”
“Okay,
stop at the gas station and fuel up before you come back." ”
“Sure,
not a problem.”
“Don’t
crash!”
Now
I’m thinking he knows. Could someone have called the station to report me? He’s
testing me to see if I’ll tell him about the accident. Maybe he’s thinking, “If
she’s just honest with me, we’ll give her another chance.” But the radio goes
silent.
I
grab a yogurt, even though I know I won’t be able to bring myself to eat
anything, and a diet ice tea and head to the check out. Even though I could
easily have looked out the front windows of the store to see if the station
wagon is still in the parking lot, I keep my head down, staring at my two
little items as they move along the black belt.
Outside
the sun blinds me and I hold my breath as I scan the parking lot.
The
station wagon is gone. But there the knot in my stomach grows larger because I
know it could be that someone saw me and will call the station.
Of course,
then I stop by the station to fill the ambulance up with gas.
I barely
make it half a mile on the road before the engine starts to sputter, choke, and
just as I pull it to the side of the road, the ambulance seizes, sighs, and
dies.
The Chief and
mechanic show up.
No one had told me
that the ambulances take Diesel gas.
I had used
unleaded gas.
Just as I thought
destiny had opened the door to EMS, I wondered perhaps if these two stupid
mistakes on my first day were signs I wasn't meant for EMS...but I refused to
believe that.
In my gut, I knew I
was in the right place.
Sometimes were
given signs to tell us we're on the wrong path...and sometimes were given
obstacles to test our determination, our faith, our confidence.
In the next 4 years, I'd have many
obstacles - my faith in myself, in my choices tested many times, but I after
that first day, I never doubted I was where I belonged. I spent the next 4
years of loving a job so much I never once bitched about getting up at 4:30 in
the morning to be to work by 6. 4 years of fighting over protocols
and patient treatment and who's turn it was to clean the bathroom. 4 years of
late calls and bullshit calls and doctors with attitudes and nurses who were
bitches.
I loved every minute.
Excerpt from Girl Medic: Confession of Chaos and Calamity Behind the Sirens.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Load N Go Or Stay N Pray?
Load and Go or Stay and Pray?
If you’re in EMS – you know what I mean by load n go or stay n pray.
If you’re not in EMS – a brief explanation; some medics prefer to get out of the house as fast as possible and “work the patient up” while they patient is in the ambulance. Load and Go medics bring as little equipment into the house as possible. Load the patient onto the litter (stretcher) and then Go out the door. Asking questions, taking vitals, doing medic type stuff on the way to the hospital
Stay n pray medics would rather pitch a tent (thus we called them Campers), haul all the equipment into the house and make a mess.
I really hate messes.
Back in my early days, when I was an EMT at Medic 108, we had a part time medic who was notoriously a Camper.
He was a nice guy – but man, he turned the simplest call into a Lifetime Original Movie. Campers like to spread all their equipment on the floor. They like to ask the patient 5 million questions. They like to ask the family 5 million questions. They like to gather up all the medications littered throughout the house and put them in a brown bag to transport with the patient (as taught to do in medic class). They do every thing by the book, line for line, word for word.
County dispatch would always check in with the EMS crew if, after 20 minutes, they heard nothing from the crew. And thus, when we worked with the Camper, county was always checking in on us.
“Medic 108, for the third time today, Status Check?”
One time, and I’m not proud of this (I’m lying, I totally am proud of it) – the Camping Medic, myself, and another EMT (back in those days, we ran 2 EMTs and 1 medic – good times!) were on a call at the local nursing home that was just a few blocks from the hospital.
I don’t remember exactly what the call was, but I do remember it was a class three patient – nothing serious.
Of course, the Camper was dragging his feet, and actually left the room to go to the records room to make copies of some paperwork.
I don’t even think there was a conversation about what my EMT partner and I were going to do – eye contact was all that was needed as he and I wheeled out the patient to the rig, drove two minutes to the hospital, dropped the patient off, gave a report to the ER nurse, replaced the dirty sheets on the stretcher with clean ones, and we were loading the stretcher back into the rig when country radio called us: “108 – could you return back to the nursing home? Apparently you forgot your tent.”
More EMS stories available in the book - Girl Medic: Confession of Chaos and Calamity Behind the Sirens. Available in ebook format on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
If you’re in EMS – you know what I mean by load n go or stay n pray.
If you’re not in EMS – a brief explanation; some medics prefer to get out of the house as fast as possible and “work the patient up” while they patient is in the ambulance. Load and Go medics bring as little equipment into the house as possible. Load the patient onto the litter (stretcher) and then Go out the door. Asking questions, taking vitals, doing medic type stuff on the way to the hospital
Stay n pray medics would rather pitch a tent (thus we called them Campers), haul all the equipment into the house and make a mess.
I really hate messes.
Back in my early days, when I was an EMT at Medic 108, we had a part time medic who was notoriously a Camper.
He was a nice guy – but man, he turned the simplest call into a Lifetime Original Movie. Campers like to spread all their equipment on the floor. They like to ask the patient 5 million questions. They like to ask the family 5 million questions. They like to gather up all the medications littered throughout the house and put them in a brown bag to transport with the patient (as taught to do in medic class). They do every thing by the book, line for line, word for word.
County dispatch would always check in with the EMS crew if, after 20 minutes, they heard nothing from the crew. And thus, when we worked with the Camper, county was always checking in on us.
“Medic 108, for the third time today, Status Check?”
One time, and I’m not proud of this (I’m lying, I totally am proud of it) – the Camping Medic, myself, and another EMT (back in those days, we ran 2 EMTs and 1 medic – good times!) were on a call at the local nursing home that was just a few blocks from the hospital.
I don’t remember exactly what the call was, but I do remember it was a class three patient – nothing serious.
Of course, the Camper was dragging his feet, and actually left the room to go to the records room to make copies of some paperwork.
I don’t even think there was a conversation about what my EMT partner and I were going to do – eye contact was all that was needed as he and I wheeled out the patient to the rig, drove two minutes to the hospital, dropped the patient off, gave a report to the ER nurse, replaced the dirty sheets on the stretcher with clean ones, and we were loading the stretcher back into the rig when country radio called us: “108 – could you return back to the nursing home? Apparently you forgot your tent.”
More EMS stories available in the book - Girl Medic: Confession of Chaos and Calamity Behind the Sirens. Available in ebook format on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
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