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To: i-node who wrote (781005)

4/22/2014 12:45:19 PM

From: koan

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580007

No, lots of people could have done it. But I did it. You said I did nothing. I am telling you what I did and it was the hardest thing I ever did. And in this case it was interesting.

The Dept of H and SS tried for 5 years to write a plan the feds would accept under PL93-154. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the feds kept rejecting their plan and just 6 weeks before the last chance the guy working on it for the last year quit and wrote a memo saying it could not be done.

The director of planning asked me what I thought as I had already written the states Alcoholism and Drug abuse plan (I was about 32).

I said they had to write it as the state would lose millions of dollars. I knew how to write a plan but nothing about EMS and so had to learn the subject while writing it. It involved a comprehensive plan from accessing the patient to out patient and had 15 components with goals, objectives and methodology for reaching those objectives and goals.

One for each category e.g. EMS training, communications, transportation, implementation of 911, etc.

They paid me well and I worked 12 hours a day for 6 weeks straight and wrote a 1400 page plan with lots of charts and other stuff.

They accepted it and gave us $500,000. I quit and went to work on the Alaska pipeline as a laborer. When I returned no one knew what to do, so they hired me back to write the second plan and made me state Director.

I had no idea the mind could learn so much so fast. I concentrated on writing 20 pages a day.

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>> If you got hurt they put you in a vehicle and hoped you made it. Today thousands of people are trained emergency medical technicians who can stabilize you on the spot and transportation means and routes to medical care are organized and set forth.

And you credit yourself with that?

Do you honestly believe, were it not for your role, that it wouldn't have gotten done? That someone else couldn't have done at least as good a job?