Here is the Cayman Net News article followed by editor's response:
http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000073/007386.htm
Ambulance services deals with its own emergencies
Despite the sudden resignation of almost 15 percent of its staff, the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is not about to come crumbling down, the organisation's Manager said.
Stephen Duval said the hasty departure last week of four experienced staffers would have minimal effect on the Cayman Islands EMS operations, which is under the Health Services Authority.
Mr Duval said that all ambulance related emergencies have been attended to promptly and effectively despite the staff constraints.
The departing paramedics and emergency medical technicians painted a negative image of the EMS, stating the Cayman Islands is at risk due to insufficient emergency responders.
Some of the expatriate paramedics and EMTs have created a website to criticise the running of the EMS and the ability of those left behind to provide full coverage for the Island.
Mr Duval confirmed that four of his staff had left for a variety of reasons but stopped short of saying what the fallout was all about.
However, he said all three ambulance stations - George Town, West Bay and North Side - were operating smoothly.
"We're currently short of staff but we have staff that is committed and diligent in working additional shifts in making sure all stations are opened on a 24-hour basis," he said.
"Ideally we would like to have 28 but right now we're functioning on a very tight shift."
Added to the manpower, he said that all four ambulances were functioning well and were equipped with advanced life support, airway management, cardiac care, obstetrics, pharmacology and other services.
Mr Duval said there were weaknesses in the system but plans were being developed to rectify them.
"You will have weaknesses in any system and I will be the first to identify our weaknesses as well as our strengths," he said.
"We would love to develop our EMT programmes and have a broader range continuous education programme. Our constraints right now are because of our staff shortage."
Mr Duval said a new dimension would be added in the recruitment process, which is underway to replace the former employees.
"Within our recruitment process we will be looking at key individuals that are not only paramedics or EMTs but instructor trained with long experiences," he said.
The head of the EMS said the new target group would be paramedics and EMTs who could double up as emergency workers and tutors, saying they would complement the system.
Since the departure of the four unnamed expatriate workers, the EMS has been forced to rely on 20 clinically functioning officers with one individual on extended sick leave, and another on study leave.
Mr Duval said the long-term plan is to develop the Islands' EMT programme to an accredited level.
He explained that the programme might have a broad range of nationalities but it could be tailor-made for Cayman, given its dive industry and unique traumas.
The departing officers questioned the validity of the certification of some of their remaining colleagues, saying that many of them had expired documents.
A charge denied by Mr Duval who stated that his staff were currently certified by the local health council, even though they may have allowed their US or other certification to expire.
"Contracted officers are required to be registered in the State that they are from, once they come to the Cayman Islands they're to register with the health practice council in Cayman and maintain in-service required hours," he said.
"Contracted officers go through an orientation period where they follow our policies and procedures and they also become used to our protocols because they differ from state to state or island to island."
Mr Duval said the EMS is always looking out for Caymanians who are interested in a career in pre-hospitality emergency medicine.
Response From Editor: Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are getting some admittance of responsibility from the oil-slick salesman talking Stephen Anthony Duval..............Fraudamedics are finally being exposed, I particularly love this comment by Stephen Anthony Duval:
"The departing officers questioned the validity of the certification of some of their remaining colleagues, saying that many of them had expired documents.
A charge denied by Mr Duval who stated that his staff were currently certified by the local health council, even though they may have allowed their US or other certification to expire."
I love it!!!!!! "they may have allowed their U.S. or other certification to expire", that's just great..... what a comment!!! This is what this blog has been proving all along, if they ain't certified they ain't SHIT.... That's just like saying, "gee, my Cayman Airways pilot today has an expired license but I think I'll fly with him anyway". You CANNOT be giving narcotics to patients when you have EXPIRED licenses, it's NOT the professional thing to do Mr. FRAUDAMEDIC Duval!!!! The next 2 quotes are also pretty pathetic lies although consistent with the slimeball fraudamedic that Stephen Anthony Duval is:
"Contracted officers are required to be registered in the State that they are from, once they come to the Cayman Islands they're to register with the health practice council in Cayman and maintain in-service required hours," he said.
"Contracted officers go through an orientation period where they follow our policies and procedures and they also become used to our protocols because they differ from state to state or island to island."
Unbelievable!!!!!!! The lies just keep coming from this guy's mouth......."maintain in-service required hours"???????? What the hell is this guy talking about!! What in-service is he talking about, there is no in-service hours.....That's right folks, in the 2 years I worked there I did a grand total of 10 in-service hours!!!! And they weren't even put on by the EMS department!!! They were put on by the nursing department!!!! Figure that one out.....The next quote I love even more about the policies and procedures...What policeies and procedures are these fraudamedics talking about???????? What protocols are they talking about????????? THEY DON'T EXIST!!!!!!!!! Your basically thrown on the rigs with no direction, policies, procedures and protocols. Then your forced to work with fraudamedics and a "child toucher"!!!!!!! What a lovely place to work!!! On top of that, you have to wait 2 WEEKS in order to get paid your overtime with no reasonable explanation!!!!Another quote:
"We're currently short of staff but we have staff that is committed and diligent in working additional shifts in making sure all stations are opened on a 24-hour basis,"
Oh give me a break Mr. Fraudamedic Duval, your kidding me, I would love to see how many station closures there were in the last 3 months, not including the scheduled closures on the off duty.....lies, lies, lies, they just keep coming, this guy should run for public office!!! Yet he wants to operate 2 additional stations soon, good luck!! Another quote:
"Since the departure of the four unnamed expatriate workers, the EMS has been forced to rely on 20 clinically functioning officers with one individual on extended sick leave, and another on study leave."
"Extended sick leave" you say????? Ohhhhh, you must be talking about the fraudamedic Dennis Fennell who is on the off-duty listed as an EMT-P and is on full-time sick leave because of a supposed "back injury" and still works at the Ritz-Carlton hotel........Is that what you mean??? In my country that's called FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another quote:
"Within our recruitment process we will be looking at key individuals that are not only paramedics or EMTs but instructor trained with long experiences," he said.
Ohhhhhhhh, you mean like Jason Dardano was a Certified Paramedic/Instructor or Roger Smyth was a Certified Paramedic/Instructor????? You mean like those guys??? These 2 guys were 2 of the best the United States had to offer and yet you still treated them like shit!!! None of the fraudamedics ever showed up to 1 of there in-services they tried to put on and constantly poked fun at them because they came from America!! What a great team!!!! The fraudamedics never wanted to learn from day 1, they always seem to "know it all"!!!! Lies, lies and more lies......The good news is, your getting caught in all these fraudamedic lies and FINALLY being EXPOSED!!!!
Monday, October 23, 2006
Jason Dardano Responds To Sick Comments About Family!!!
Here's the response from Jason:
Hello all!
I know that it was only a matter of time before I would have to post in this blog. Despite my better judgment here it goes. Firstly, I am not the editor or co-editor of this blog nor have I ever commented within it (until now), which also means that I have not made ANY personal attacks on anyone or their family members. Yes, I am guilty of placing the link to this site in another blog next to my name, many people have this link posted on their site, this is not “solid proof” that they are responsible for the site. Actually, I have several links to other sites posted there as well and I do not author or co-author any of those either. Since this blog’s inception, I have told people that I did not want to be involved because of my legal case against the H.S.A. and I wanted the appropriate process to take prevalence over anger. I have recently received a very undeserving email from one of the people in the service that I respect highly that accused me of “stirring up the shit” and that they were being told that they were just as guilty for this blog as I was for their participation in my going away party. So as long as I was being blamed, I took the liberty of placing the link in an alternate blog. So what are these people guilty of ?? Saying goodbye to someone and having a couple of drinks? K.G. you were there having a good time and expressing your gratitude for me taking the time and reviewing with you, did I have anything bad to say about anyone?? It is attitudes and displays of blame such as this made me realize that it was inevitable that I would be dragged into being held responsible for this because of my up front, no-nonsense personality. Then again, I guess that if one person makes a blog, all expatriates are contributing authors. Does that mean that all Germans are responsible for the Holocaust? I HATE stereotyping and prejudice. I HAVE NO USE FOR IT!
Secondly, I would like to take the time to address a couple of the responses.
One of the responses that I feel refers to me is the one that refers to “being the one with the camera” I do carry my camera around when on duty, I take pictures of scenes and injuries to use in my lectures. During the time you speak of I was not taking pictures of these events but rather of the people that I have spent the past 18 months of my life working and living with. I have pictures of just about everybody; nurses, physicians, porters, and EMT’s to reflect on my life experience in the future. If I am truly the editor of this blog or have contributed in any other capacity than mentioned above, why have these pictures not surfaced in a derogatory way?? With the evolution of camera phones that just about everyone possesses, it could be anyone who took those pictures. This comment also states that it was career suicide to work with the likes of me?? Why me? What have I done to you? If I remember correctly, I accepted a management position in attempt to help the service grow in a positive direction with continuing medical education, CQI, protocols, equipment resources, and to help some members of staff reach their goal of becoming a paramedic by writing numerous letters to the education board on their behalf. If you did not like to take direction, be mandated to attend training sessions, or to be held accountable, I am sorry, I thought that was what I was hired to do (nothing personal there). I also played an instrumental role in the H.S.A. obtaining the American Heart Association training programs and instructorships. In fact, just prior to my departure, I provided the first aid instructor program on my own time and free of charge because I did not have any personal issues with individuals, but rather, the organization. I did not have to do that! I tried to enhance the service as much as I was allowed to.
Do I have good reason to be angry at the H.S.A? Put yourself in my position and ask the same question. I could be very detailed about the issues I encountered while working there but I will only mention a few of the many issues that resulted in my decision to resign. I was contracted to work 20 hours per week on the road and 20 hours per week to develop training programs, develop CME’s, teach these programs, and perform other management duties. If you look at the schedules from March 2006 to August of 2006 you will see that I was working 48 hours per week on the road and was performing the other 20 plus hours on my days off. I was never compensated for the additional 18 hours per week of paramedic time above and beyond my contracted 20 hours. So basically, the H.S.A. had me working a full time job as well as a part time job but only compensated me for a full time job. If I refused to work the additional hours, one of two things would have happened; either a station would have to have been closed or someone else would have to be paid OT to cover the shift. This is a substantial amount of money lost for spent hours of my life that I will never get back. Would you work for the H.S.A. for free? Did I “bitch” a lot? Yes, but what did I “bitch” about?? Contract breeches, lack of equipment, no continuing education, patient care issues, and no avenue to recertify or maintain my credentials, the same things that 99% of the staff “bitched” about. Perhaps during my interview when I asked about these elements human resources should have told me that they did not exist, then, I would not have expected them to exist. If everything were on the up and up, there would be no reason to “bitch”. I “bitched” about the things that pertained to my contract and ultimately patient care issues. When I accepted the management position, I endeavored to help remedy these issues so when you refer to people who do/ did not care about the service, please do not tell me that I did not try to correct those issues, because I did TRY. I bitched but stuck it out for many months, I resigned (through the proper channels) when they stopped paying me for the time I was putting in. Working for free is called volunteering, which I did for the first aid instructor class, I did not volunteer to accept to work extra paramedic shifts for free.
In closing, I could care less what anyone wishes to post about ME in this blog. If you think you may have dirty laundry on me because I left and you think I edit this blog….post it! It just shows how little you actually know about me. I have nothing to hide. Just keep things on topic and use your real name. When the time comes that you run out of things to write; leave family members out of it. I do not need to hide under the pen name “anonymous”. If I had something to say to you when I was on island I confronted you and now that I am off Island, things are not any different, this entry reflects MY words and MY story. Remember MY issue is not personal. I hope this clears some things up.
Respectfully submitted,
Jason Dardano
EMT-P
Hello all!
I know that it was only a matter of time before I would have to post in this blog. Despite my better judgment here it goes. Firstly, I am not the editor or co-editor of this blog nor have I ever commented within it (until now), which also means that I have not made ANY personal attacks on anyone or their family members. Yes, I am guilty of placing the link to this site in another blog next to my name, many people have this link posted on their site, this is not “solid proof” that they are responsible for the site. Actually, I have several links to other sites posted there as well and I do not author or co-author any of those either. Since this blog’s inception, I have told people that I did not want to be involved because of my legal case against the H.S.A. and I wanted the appropriate process to take prevalence over anger. I have recently received a very undeserving email from one of the people in the service that I respect highly that accused me of “stirring up the shit” and that they were being told that they were just as guilty for this blog as I was for their participation in my going away party. So as long as I was being blamed, I took the liberty of placing the link in an alternate blog. So what are these people guilty of ?? Saying goodbye to someone and having a couple of drinks? K.G. you were there having a good time and expressing your gratitude for me taking the time and reviewing with you, did I have anything bad to say about anyone?? It is attitudes and displays of blame such as this made me realize that it was inevitable that I would be dragged into being held responsible for this because of my up front, no-nonsense personality. Then again, I guess that if one person makes a blog, all expatriates are contributing authors. Does that mean that all Germans are responsible for the Holocaust? I HATE stereotyping and prejudice. I HAVE NO USE FOR IT!
Secondly, I would like to take the time to address a couple of the responses.
One of the responses that I feel refers to me is the one that refers to “being the one with the camera” I do carry my camera around when on duty, I take pictures of scenes and injuries to use in my lectures. During the time you speak of I was not taking pictures of these events but rather of the people that I have spent the past 18 months of my life working and living with. I have pictures of just about everybody; nurses, physicians, porters, and EMT’s to reflect on my life experience in the future. If I am truly the editor of this blog or have contributed in any other capacity than mentioned above, why have these pictures not surfaced in a derogatory way?? With the evolution of camera phones that just about everyone possesses, it could be anyone who took those pictures. This comment also states that it was career suicide to work with the likes of me?? Why me? What have I done to you? If I remember correctly, I accepted a management position in attempt to help the service grow in a positive direction with continuing medical education, CQI, protocols, equipment resources, and to help some members of staff reach their goal of becoming a paramedic by writing numerous letters to the education board on their behalf. If you did not like to take direction, be mandated to attend training sessions, or to be held accountable, I am sorry, I thought that was what I was hired to do (nothing personal there). I also played an instrumental role in the H.S.A. obtaining the American Heart Association training programs and instructorships. In fact, just prior to my departure, I provided the first aid instructor program on my own time and free of charge because I did not have any personal issues with individuals, but rather, the organization. I did not have to do that! I tried to enhance the service as much as I was allowed to.
Do I have good reason to be angry at the H.S.A? Put yourself in my position and ask the same question. I could be very detailed about the issues I encountered while working there but I will only mention a few of the many issues that resulted in my decision to resign. I was contracted to work 20 hours per week on the road and 20 hours per week to develop training programs, develop CME’s, teach these programs, and perform other management duties. If you look at the schedules from March 2006 to August of 2006 you will see that I was working 48 hours per week on the road and was performing the other 20 plus hours on my days off. I was never compensated for the additional 18 hours per week of paramedic time above and beyond my contracted 20 hours. So basically, the H.S.A. had me working a full time job as well as a part time job but only compensated me for a full time job. If I refused to work the additional hours, one of two things would have happened; either a station would have to have been closed or someone else would have to be paid OT to cover the shift. This is a substantial amount of money lost for spent hours of my life that I will never get back. Would you work for the H.S.A. for free? Did I “bitch” a lot? Yes, but what did I “bitch” about?? Contract breeches, lack of equipment, no continuing education, patient care issues, and no avenue to recertify or maintain my credentials, the same things that 99% of the staff “bitched” about. Perhaps during my interview when I asked about these elements human resources should have told me that they did not exist, then, I would not have expected them to exist. If everything were on the up and up, there would be no reason to “bitch”. I “bitched” about the things that pertained to my contract and ultimately patient care issues. When I accepted the management position, I endeavored to help remedy these issues so when you refer to people who do/ did not care about the service, please do not tell me that I did not try to correct those issues, because I did TRY. I bitched but stuck it out for many months, I resigned (through the proper channels) when they stopped paying me for the time I was putting in. Working for free is called volunteering, which I did for the first aid instructor class, I did not volunteer to accept to work extra paramedic shifts for free.
In closing, I could care less what anyone wishes to post about ME in this blog. If you think you may have dirty laundry on me because I left and you think I edit this blog….post it! It just shows how little you actually know about me. I have nothing to hide. Just keep things on topic and use your real name. When the time comes that you run out of things to write; leave family members out of it. I do not need to hide under the pen name “anonymous”. If I had something to say to you when I was on island I confronted you and now that I am off Island, things are not any different, this entry reflects MY words and MY story. Remember MY issue is not personal. I hope this clears some things up.
Respectfully submitted,
Jason Dardano
EMT-P
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