Nothing beats it. I'm good at learning by reading, but actually going in and pulling the staples out of someone's leg, or stitching up someone's head will always be better. Marginally. >.> And that's one of the things I love about helping out at the clinic and working with the EMS up here. The vast majority of the patients in the clinic are more than willing to let me, uh, 'work' on them (perhaps because they don't know I've never done it before...) And with EMS patients, they usually can't even say no. Oh implied consent, you are wonderful. Of course, everything I'm doing is supervised, I HAVE read about it before, and it is all for the patient's good.
Speaking of getting experience, I'll soon be taking a two day class on swift water rescue. Day one will be all the class room stuff, day two will be practical experience. It should be fun. ^_^
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