Recent content by sparticus

I agree w/ you here

Paramedics are like special teams. You can't win games without them unless you want that Cardiac Arrest or multiple GSW to the chest to walk into the ER by themselves... Also I tell all my buddies who complain about getting that headache, Stumped toe or ETOH freq flyer ... "Dude...Look on the...

I disagree on both points you make here. I know several Paramedics who are brilliant. You take your knowledge where you want to take it. What do you do on your down time do you sleep or study meds and differential diagnosis. When you write your reports? do you use medical terminology or layman...

You spoke alot of truth there. a Masters does not make you a good P.A. Good solid Patient Assessment does though. You can learn that as an EMT, if you go above and beyond what you cert requires you to know

If Paramedic is boring then you will likely find P.A / Nursing boring as well. It really boils down to what you want to do. There is money in EMS, you won't make 150k+ unless you go overseas but you can make 60-90K with an EMS degree and 5-10 years of quality 911 system experience. Your...

Honestly bro there are alot of grumpy burnt out guys that will steer you away from ems when you ask this type of question. EMS is a very relative job and is largely based on where you live. To the guy that said EMS is 99.9% boring. Small county ems service doing routine transports, maybe. Busy...