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  1. Kapowsin - great views of Mt Rainier, Hood Canal, Puget Sound

    Sebastian - fantastic views of the Florida coast, intracoastal waterway

    Lost Prairie - gorgeous valley with mountain views everywhere
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  2. """Have you tried pumping the brakes (twice) to get the slider down like you were taught during AFF? Your story makes it sound as if you passively waited till you were at 2000ft.""""

    I agree. But regardless, he reached his hard deck without a good canopy and chopped appropriately IMO.

    Good job.
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  3. Since the DZ has a big and well attended NY Eve party, I think you are out of luck.
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  4. I was honored to know Bill. He always welcomed us when we visited Sebastian, and made it a point to jump with us. He made it a point to welcome us to the community when we moved here earlier this year. It was an honor to be on his last skydive yesterday in Sebastian. Blue skies Bill.

  5. Yep - jumping there 4 or 5 days a week, heavy on weekends. I know Kara has had problems with her phone. Were you calling 509-838-JUMP?? I can get you her personal cell phone if you want.

    West Plains is a great little DZ, great vibe, nice folks, and with a Caravan most of the season.

    DZ phone # is 509-659-1500. Answered mostly on Fri-Sun.
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  6. We have the chart posted in our Caravan. Definitely useful.

    West Plains Skydiving, Ritzville WA., and the plane winters in Skydive Mesquite.
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  7. <<>>

    I would love to work at one. Lower stress, and real sick ones you just ship to the hospital based ER who can't refuse anything.

    However I would rather work at the urgent care in Puerto Rico that was mentioned by an earlier poster!! I am considering getting out of the rat race soon, and doing lower stress/acuity stuff, and maybe some locum work in cool spots like that.
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  8. craddock

    Thank you for your insight. Where I live we have quite a few Urgent care facilities. I wonder where they fit in and if they would be covered by the insurance you speak of. If so they are still going to the wrong place. One of the Urgent Care's in my town is at the hospital. You go in the same door as the ER but go right for Urgent care and left for the ER. So they wouldn't have even gone to the wrong place, but just took a wrong turn.

    The last two times I went to Urgent Care though they sent me to the ER. One was my stupidity for not going but wasn't thinking clearly I actually stopped by the ER a couple days after the last time I was admitted to thank everyone I was so impressed with their professionalism and compassion. I had everyone on the board in my room helping me and they were great. Have to love it when people actually love their job and are good at it.

    Anyway, are the urgent care facilities not covered or are people just not aware of them? The one I am familiar with is run right with primary care in the same office. You either have an appointment or are a walk in. The problem in the larger cites in the US does not apply to many of the places I have lived though



    We have 2 urgent cares within one block of my hospital, and many patients with insurance still come to the ER for minor problems. And of course, many without insurance come to the ER instead of the urgent cares, because we can't by law turn them away. (ER docs are the only citizens not covered by the emancipation proclamation - we are still forced to work for free by government regulation - oh I digress) Education about care alternatives may help, but for many, the ER is the path of least resistance.

    By the way, thank you for returning to the ER and thanking them for good service. That makes our day. We try to take good care of folks in a difficult environment. I worked my butt off last night to save the life of a young man losing his airway from a tonsilar abscess, then got crap from a patient with chronic back pain who was out of his hydrocodone because he had to wait. Retirement looms in the very near future.

    Ed
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  9. Just my experience as a practicing ER Doc for 32 years. Yes - our volumes, and wait times have gone up. Many who now have "insurance" which is paying providers at Medicaid rates (pennies on the dollar) can not find a primary care provider that will take their "insurance" because their practices already have more Medicaid that doesn't even pay office expenses. Therefore the newly "insured" flock to the ER with problems that can mostly be handled in an office setting.

    This is not a political statement, just an observation by someone in the trenches.
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  10. Happy Birthday - I hope you give Mark a spanking for your birthday - he deserves it (probably) :P

    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  11. skymama

    Well, not here, but on our neighborhood's Nextdoor group.

    I feel like I've joined the naughty people's group, and I like it! >:(




    SERVES YOU RIGHT!! :P
    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  12. Groundhog day is similar to President's day. When Obama steps outside and sees his shadow, there will be 6 more weeks of bullshit.:P

    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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  13. I also met squeak in Sebastian in December. I agree, not a bad bloke for an Aussie :P

    Had a nice cholesterol laden dinner of ribs and beans with him at our condo.

    Doc

    "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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