Tell him not to join a RDF medical unit they're a complete waste of space that are going to get the DF sued on a biblical scale at some stage.
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Originally posted by The real Jack View PostTell him not to join a RDF medical unit they're a complete waste of space that are going to get the DF sued on a biblical scale at some stage.Without supplies no army is brave.
—Frederick the Great,
Instructions to his Generals, 1747
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A lad I know bust open his knee on camp and the RDF medics did a stitch up and clean job on it before he was sent off to hospital. The staff there took several blades of grass out when they opened it back up again, so obviously he doesn't have alot of faith in them anymore.
I've never had to have any real dealings with them, even though I've met a few who seemed to have their heads screwed on, so I can't speak from first hand exprience.
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Originally posted by luchi View PostTell us more????Everyone who's ever loved you was wrong.
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Originally posted by The real Jack View PostBecause al lot of them are part timers with no qualifications and training worth talking about.
In saying that I'm fully aware that alot of the bods making up the medical coys are bags of ham and not all of them are EMTs in civie street, but hopefully the trickle down effect might come into play and the experience of the professionals will rub off on the rest."Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose"
"Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand next to the object you wish to view."
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Originally posted by The real Jack View PostBecause al lot of them are part timers with no qualifications and training worth talking about. Fair enough some are apparently nurses and EMT's I haven't met any in a medical unit if there is any qualified healthcare professionals they should be attached permanently to their PDF counterparts. They are simply under trained and some day they will endanger someone's life with their incompetence, how many times have you seen a useless RDF 3* medic just out of recruit training do something stupid when treating their infantry cousins? I have seen on several occasions RDF medic not carrying out basic tasks correctly like changing their ****ing gloves between "patient". How many times have they taught you very basic first aid courses skills dont even compare to civilian ones?. How many times have you had to shout for the Fat RDF medic to get up of his/her fat arse to do something whereupon they cant run and are ****ing Useless? What would happen if god forbid if someone was shot while training? Luckily in my unit we have two qualified EMT's so if anything happend we can rely on them. I think they should disband the whole RDF medical corps and all bods with the relevant qualifications should be transferred to a PDF Medic unit.
Just bringing up the point of not changing the gloves, it's a very serious matter, however I would suggest that you look a bit harder, it can be difficult for someone to tell pairs of gloves apart from each other, especially since they all tend to look the same anyway.
Once again you are dead right...PDF Medics are a hell of a lot more qualified than their RDF Medic counterparts. All those years spent perfecting their tea drinking skills is not something to be laughed at (Sorry lads!
Thank you for your contribution to Irish Military Online....
Oh yeah...If you should ever wind up in the Glen of Imaal needing first aid, be sure to let me know. I would hate to ruin any ideas you have about the RDF Medical Corps...I will of course welcome you with open arms!Last edited by The Joker; 28 January 2008, 19:25.If your not in bed by 4 o' clock it's time to go home!
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i'm just gonna say this... there are some medics in the reserve i wouldnt want giving me the last rights, let alone fisrt aid, but that said the few times i've had to see the medics they were very professional, and well up on what they needed to do...But there's no danger
It's a professional career
Though it could be arranged
With just a word in Mr. Churchill's ear
If you're out of luck you're out of work
We could send you to johannesburg.
(Elvis Costello, Olivers Army)
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If by lesson you mean a trip to Cork University hospital in the back of a Land rover ambulance, strapped to a spinal board, accompanied by a wholly good humoured RDF medic, Yes.
I can't thank them enough for their professionalism that day. Their calmness stopped me thinking about being paralysed from the neck down. When you are involved in an accident like what I was,(falling ten feet, landing on my head) you seem to fear the worst immediately. However when those around you are not in a flap, you realise, "hey, maybe I'm not that badly hurt after all".
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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For my 2 cents, Ive never had any trouble with RDF medics.
Sure, they can be a bit quick to put skivvers on LD or ED but so what?
I personally know one medic whos done more then their fair share of time workin in various A+E depts. around dublin and if i had a choice of being treated by them or a PDF doctor/medic, I know which one I'd choose.
I know absolutely nothing about their training so I cant comment on it but I have seen the results of it and thus far Ive been impressed.
Ive witnessed first hand the action of an RDF medic who, in the words of the doctor that eventually got the patient in hospital, saved their live. (Im not gonna go into specifics or obvious reasons).
As for scrapping the RDF units and attaching them to the PDF ones, why??? So they can learn to do f**k all during the day and then turn around and say "no. i cant do any audiograms tonight cause i finish work at 4", or " i can only do 4 medicals in one day".Woo Hoo, finally moderated!!!!! In that select band of people who speak their mind instead of being sheep!
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the medics are like all units train very hard and then you meet 1 or 2 of them and they let the side down from my time with the medics i can say they train hard on medical skills you should not judge a book by its coverStrategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
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the medics are like all units train very hard and then you meet 1 or 2 of them and they let the side down from my time with the medics i can say they train hard on medical skills you should not judge a book by its cover
If you did you are the only medic who won an all army falling plates..must count for some thing.
In fairness you became a far better soldier once you forgot all you medical skills and we all felt far safer...even if you do now carry a weapon.Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe
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Originally posted by The real Jack View PostBecause al lot of them are part timers with no qualifications and training worth talking about. Fair enough some are apparently nurses and EMT's I haven't met any in a medical unit if there is any qualified healthcare professionals they should be attached permanently to their PDF counterparts.
They are simply under trained and some day they will endanger someone's life with their incompetence, how many times have you seen a useless RDF 3* medic just out of recruit training do something stupid when treating their infantry cousins?
I have seen on several occasions RDF medic not carrying out basic tasks correctly like changing their ****ing gloves between "patient".
After removing the blood soaked bandages from one lad he then said with authority "I think you will have to go to Naas". He left it up to the RDF medic to re-apply the bandages.
How many times have they taught you very basic first aid courses skills dont even compare to civilian ones?.
How many times have you had to shout for the Fat RDF medic to get up of his/her fat arse to do something whereupon they cant run and are ****ing Useless?
What would happen if god forbid if someone was shot while training? Luckily in my unit we have two qualified EMT's so if anything happend we can rely on them.
I think they should disband the whole RDF medical corps and all bods with the relevant qualifications should be transferred to a PDF Medic unit.
But really I am sure like in all units there are people with different skill sets and abilities. It is very unfair to tar all medics with the same brush!Without supplies no army is brave.
—Frederick the Great,
Instructions to his Generals, 1747
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