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This answer may contain sensitive images. Click on an image to unblur it.Read this. Yes, YOU. If you ignore every other tip about precautions you should take regarding your health… don’t ignore this one. In fact, every person on Earth… You only have to do it once… every one of the thousands or millions who read this… I encourage you to do this one thing. It’s simple. It’s quick & easy. It applies to every single person. And it has a significant chance to actually keep you alive longer.Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s something was quite common, that has decreased in popularity over the past couple decades. This is unfortunate, because it was (and is) important; yet, it has slowly faded away because of our vanity. What is this thing? It is called the Medic Alert Bracelet. WAIT! … DON’T GO! … CONTINUE READING! … I’m not about to tell you to start wearing them. It’s something else. Although some people still wear them, usually older people, you rarely see them these days because sometimes they can be ugly and clunky. Sometimes people don’t feel comfortable announcing their conditions to every person they meet.These bracelets, or sometimes necklace pendants… or occasionally even anklets… are meant to give First Responders critical information about any conditions that you may have, that they would need to know before treating you in an emergency situation. Things like peanut, shellfish, or other allergies, blood type, conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, asthma, etc. Information that needs to be known quickly, when seconds count.When a first responder first comes upon a person in distress, whether it is a professional paramedic, or a bystander who is on the phone with 911, receiving instructions while helping somebody in a crisis situation… one of the very first steps taken, after checking for breathing in the patient, is to check their wrists, necks and ankles for Medic Alert jewelry. But nowadays, you don’t find them very often. And crucial information must be retrieved in different, slower ways.However!… there is an alternative that will fit almost everyone’s lifestyle and fashion sense, and everyone should know about this, and use it. What is it? It’s on your phone! You all have cell phones. So go now and get it, and we will set it up together. Go on… I’ll wait…………..………………..Got your phone in hand? Okay. Let’s start. First thing you should know is that for iPhones, it comes standard… but, you still have to fill it out with the information, or else it’s useless. The app symbol is a white icon with a pink heart in the top right corner. Like this:For Android phones, it’s a different procedure. We’ll cover that later. So…To set up Medical ID on iPhone:1) Open the app store and locate the Health App (shown above)2) You will see four options in the bottom: Dashboard, Health Data, Sources, and Medical ID. Tap "Medical ID."3) From this page, you can add your birthday/age, known medical conditions, allergies and medications, spouse, mother and father's phone numbers, blood type, whether or not you are an organ donor and your approximate height.That’s it! You’re done! The important thing to realize is that this can be accessed even on a locked phone! These days, most first responders are trained to be aware of this fact, and if not… well, now you are!I urge all you iPhone owners to fill out that info now, which includes all important medical info all in one place, including Emergency Contact numbers. This all is important even for those of you who don’t have any specific “condition”. Just knowing that you have no conditions or allergies can be helpful when time is short. At the end of this article I’m going to give you a link to a site that gives better instructions than I gave above. It will include graphics to better guide you through it. Before that, let me get to my fellow Android users, who must do it a bit differently.To set up Medical ID on (most) Android phones:FIRST:1) Open contacts list.2) Tap on "groups" in top right corner.3) There should be a group set called "integrated groups" (ex. favorites, co-workers etc.). Tap on ICE - Emergency Contacts.4) Tap Add, and add up to four emergency contacts. These can be imported from pre-existing contacts or new to your contact list.NEXT, for those of you who lock your phone (I don’t)… once you have your contacts in the group set:1) While the phone is locked, tap "Backup Password."2) Tap "Emergency Call."3) A touch pad for dialing 911 should appear, along with four circles with plus (+) signs in them. Click on each (+) and pick a contact from your pre-saved ICE group set.So that will allow your In Case of Emergency #’s to be available even if your phone is locked.However, note that Androids do not allow for listing actual medical information (like iPhones do). So you Android people need to go one step further for your allergies, conditions, blood type and prescriptions to be available to first responders and Emergency Room personnel. We’re almost done here… so hang in there.Android people need to download this app:Open up your Google App Store and search for this app. It’s listed as:“iMed Alert - Medical Alert”It’s a quick download… about 20 seconds. It then shows you a single simple screen, with six partitions. Tap on each one, and fill in the info it asks. It even has a spot for your photo, to allow responders to be 100% sure the info they are looking at is yours.This icon, like the one for iPhones, then resides on your phone screen, for when it’s really needed. Put it on your screen, of course. In a corner is best. Candy Crush can move to screen #2 to make room. Candy won’t mind.If you have a condition and don’t like the Medical ID/Medic Alert jewelry (although I highly recommend you DO wear it)…… then please use the method I just explained. In fact, use both methods.And.. if you have no particular conditions, also please use this method. Knowing there are no conditions, and that there are No Known Allergies (NKA) is also very helpful, as is simple identification and emergency contact numbers, all in one place. It’s a technical world out there these days, so use the technology. Until we all get chips implanted under our skin, and all medical facilities have scanners… this is the next best thing (although, for some people, their phone seems to be surgically attached to their hand, so it might, in fact, be the very same thing!)This small, simple thing can save your life. One never knows when you will have that very very bad day.So… I hope I kept your attention to the end. Here is the website that goes over what I just explained, but it has pictures and graphics to help make it even easier to set up on your phone:In Case of Emergency... How a Cell Phone Can Save Your LifeDon’t be lazy or procrastinate. Just do it now, and it will be done. It’s quick.Tell your family and friends about this, as well. Send them the link to this answer, or that website. Get to it…. and, happy living!Another option is to tattoo all of that information across your chest, or add it to your sexy lower back tattoo (tramp stamp). Using the method I wrote about is probably more popular than the tattoo, though.Oh, one final, important point… make damn sure you fill in the correct blood type that you have. If you aren’t 100% sure of your blood type, wait until you are 100% certain. Go find out, and then fill it in. Although doctors or paramedics won’t necessarily depend only on this info that you provided, before giving you blood… it’s possible that they might have to, if there is simply no time to confirm it and your life depends on it. Be sure, first. Find out. This is something you should know, in any case.EDIT:Back to iPhones for a minute… if you are having trouble finding your Health App, try this link for some extra tips: My iPhone's Health App Is Gone! How Do I Reinstall It?EDIT 2: One small addition here. Android also has this now, on their newer phones. To access it, simply go into settings>system>about phone>emergency information and fill in your emergency contacts and medical information. This can be accessed just like ICE contacts from a locked phone by first responders. My own phone is older. It doesn’t have this option. So, you have a few options with the newest phones, that get you to the same place.CITATIONS:Instructions provided by Kindred Hospital.

There are four skills you need to develop in yourself:READINGRead a lot. This will help you in English section which judges your basic grammar skills. In my view, reading a grammar book is far less helping and too boring to prepare for english section of competitive exams. If you're good at reading, you will be able to find out punctuation and grammatical errors in incorrect sentences given to you in CGL question paper. At the same time you will be able to retain a larger set of words and thus have a good vocabulary.Now the question is what to read.I would suggest you to a few books which will not only help you in preparing for the English section but also help you in getting a stronger grasp over the General Awareness section of the exam.The list of books is as follows:Start with NCERT booksRead all NCERT text books available for a proper basic understanding of this country. All books, all subjects - 6th to 12th.History - 9 booksGeography - 11 booksPolity - 9 booksEconomics - 3 books (Dont read 12th std books, it's not necessary)Total - 32 booksI hope, you can finish these 32 books(Around 100 pages each) within 64 days i.e. 2 months (reading 50 pages a day)When you're done with the NCERTs buy a Lucent's General Knowledge for filling stuff.With this you will certainly be able to clear the cutoff of General awareness section.The second skill you need to induce into yourself isQUANTITATIVE APTITUDEBeing from a paramedical background, at first i too was reluctant to Mathematics. But this book, Fast Track Objective Arithmetic by Rajesh verma helped me vanish that aversion.Before skipping to this books, search for Vedic maths on internet and learn how to calculate mentally. This will help you a lot. I prepared Vedic maths from a friend's Bullseye notes. It would be more beneficial if you can get those.When you find yourself active in mental maths, start practicing with that Rajesh Verma book.And thirdlyREASONINGThis is something you don't need to prepare for much. Just simply, google mrunal.org and download previous papers and start practicing the reasoning section from there.In conclusion, you need to fix your timetable something like this:3-4 hours- Reading (atleast 50 pages)2 hours- Practicing Maths1 hours- Solving previous year reasoning papers

Stethoscope. Anyone who tells you you need a Littman is yanking your chain and inviting much suffering and angst every time you lose your stethoscope or a co-worker comes down with a case of sticky fingers. A $30 stethoscope has served me every bit as well. Pretty much anything that isn’t the $2 POS in the jump bag will do.Trauma shears. The cheap ones the ambulance company provides generally work great, really great, better and longer than those $80 leatherman shears in my opinion. The only modification I can suggest here is a small seatbelt cutter. It’s compact, lays clothes off fast, and hard to mess up with. I had a doctor once ask me, bamboozled, if it wasn’t illegal to own them after he borrowed mine to stip a patient. Anyway, no special pouch required, most ambulance pants will have a pocket that can comfortably accomodate shears.Flashlight? Got a smartphone? Done. If you need something more high power, check the cab of your ambulance for a spotlight or beating stick with optional flashlight attachment (mag light)Gloves? I mean, yeah, I guess, if you want to find a gross lump of damp gloves in your laundry, feel free to keep a few on you in the special pouches in your ambulance pants called pockets.A phone, please keep a phone on you. Out of everything I carry, I use this in job related duties the most. You don’t need the latest and greatest, nor do you need a special rig for it on your belt, just get something with a good battery that can take a few hits. Also, consider downloading some google translate packages, comes in real handy.Your credentials. Gotta have them on you. You can go cool and have your own credential wallet, but I just use a nice fat lady wallet since my pants have deep pockets.A pen. Any old pen will do. I’m partial to click pens, but depending on your ability to resist clicking them and how patient your partner is, this may be hazardous to your life expectancy. Just like with the stethoscope, having anything fancier than just a regular ol’ pen is just inviting suffering and angst, not to mention literally arguing with nurses to get your pen back. If you’re an EMT, keep spares, paramedics are pen kleptomaniacs. I should know.That’s my list. Pretty much everything else can be improvised or sourced elsewhere, or else carried with your equipment.