Re: History of Choppers in Medicine

[Ramesh Nagappan <rameshnagappan@yahoo.com>]

G'day Geoff

Thanks for your mail and thoughts.

Surely the post has elicited lot of mails in response.
 Be assured that my mail was not intended to offend
any one.  I have done a bit of flight doctoring and I
know the joys and travails of it.

I think all you flight paramedics do a grand job.

May be my post should have been clearer.  I was only
against the words "retrievalist", "evacuation" etc.

I thought I was wanting to make you guys "more
professional" and "not less professional".  Change is
hard, especially in names and designations.

If you all prefer the term "Flight Paramedic", fine by
me.

Thanks for your interest.

Cheers
Ramesh


--- Geoff Taurins <geofft@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> G'day Ramesh.
> 
> First of all good luck with your research.
> 
> I understand you dislike some commonly used terms
> but if
> you look up the meaning of your disliked terms in
> the dictionary
> they describe what 'we' do very well.
> 
> Like others, I worked hard to get the title Flight
> Paramedic. The
> term is understood by just about everyone. I did a
> quick
> survey at work ( Melbourne Paramedics ) and nobody
> could
> figure out what a "transit care professional" was.
> When pressed
> for an answer the most common answer was they
> thought it was
> a technical term for a hospital orderly. When I
> explained and
> showed them a copy of your message, I got a strange
> look and
> something along the lines of ' you have got to be
> kidding"
> ( no offence intended ).When I tell the person in
> the street I am
> a Flight Paramedic nearly 100% of them know what I
> do, so I
> see no need for change where there doesnt seem to be
> a need.
> 
> Cheers Geoff Taurins
> MICA & Flight Paramedic
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ramesh Nagappan" <rameshnagappan@yahoo.com>
> To: <flightmed@flightweb.com>
> Cc: <ramesh@bigpond.net.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:22 AM
> Subject: History of Choppers in Medicine
> 
> 
> > Dear All
> >
> > I am researching the history of "Helicopters in
> > Transit Care of the Critically Ill"
> >
> > Yes - I do not like the words "evacuation" (you
> all
> > are not a demolition gang), "retrieval" (you guys
> are
> > not a mechanical arm), "prehospitalists" (you do
> > inter-hospital stuff as well), "flight docs an
> > dnurses" (you look after them in the ground as
> well -
> > before and after the flight for a while.
> >
> > So I call you all "Transit care Professionals"
> > (Transit Care MD, or Transit Care Nurse etc.)
> >
> > I would be grateful if you could please let me
> know of
> > any infomration or any source of information that
> you
> > think might be of some use to my in my research on
> the
> > "History of Helicopters in the Transit Care of the
> > Critically ill".  I am interested in Civil and
> > Military stuff.
> >
> > If you choose to e-mail me large file-size
> documents
> > or indeed photographs, Please do so to my other
> (main)
> > e-mail ID :
> >
> > ramesh@bigpond.net.au (larger storage space).
> >
> > Many Thanks
> > Ramesh Nagappan, MD
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Ramesh Nagappan, MD, FRACP, FJFICM
> > Critical Care Physician
> > Monash Medical Centre
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> > Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
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Ramesh Nagappan, MD, FRACP, FJFICM
Critical Care Physician
Monash Medical Centre
Locked Bag 29, 246, Clayton Road, Clayton - 3168
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Fax: 61 3 9594 6878

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