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THANK YOU. Since ER Doctors do IV's ALL The time. haha what a joke! And I don't know about the vitals. From what i gathered I think that the ER Doc was kinda scared to do surgical interventions in the field......again just out of her element.

Its all good guys....this discussion has kinda gone in a argumentative direction. I'm not trying to sound arrogant I am just confident in the people I work with.

you said a BASIC Doctor...not a ED physician. I'd take a ED physician over a average medic anyday....not a regular MD though that practices a different type of medicine

And it's not the medics responsibility anymore if a licensed and practicing MD takes pt care and rides in with the pt.....as far as I know at least....

haha what do you mean more suited to this? I know in some parts of our city its a weekly event! So yeah, practice makes perfect

The Doc sunk a combitube on the guy after the failed ETI.....The doc assumed patient care and wanted to do it. The Paramedic on that bus is one of my training advisors...shes a great medic. I don't know about the documentation but Im sure she did........

Its probably also better to know where the equipment youll need is to perform a life saving intervention before the patient is dead.....just saying.....plus Doc's don't do pre-hospital interventions very often. Some interventions maybe but not some of the ones that count.

Haha exactly. When was the last time a regular doc started a 20 gauge IV, bagged, and intubated on a little baby whos mom is screaming in your face? But because they are a Doc they can do anything right? gimme a break.....

Haha. Yeah since they know where everything on the ambulance is......but hey its your life

Not sure to be honest.....

On another note, kinda of sad and by no means indicative of ER physicians I have a story that happened several weeks ago. A guy I knew who was one of my best friends' friends was riding shotgun in a pick-up being driven by his drunk friend that did a 100mph french kiss with a streetlight pole...

On a side note they just changed(our will soon) the EMS provider levels. The new levels are Emergency Medical Responder(formerly First Responder), EMT(Formerly EMT-B), Advanced EMT(former EMT-I) and Paramedic(Formerly EMT-Paramedic. While the name changes don't neccessarily mean crap the...

Again, I agree with you. There is a definite need for change and I think that nationally recognizing and standardizing minimun standards across the board can start getting us on the right track. In the meantime I just plan to learn as much as I can and be the best that I can be. I never plan to...

That is slowly changing.....Again, EMS is a young profession. They are working on nationally recognizing certifications and when that happens things will start getting where they need to be. Its hard when every state controls education standards because there is nothing across the board...

And if I could tell you the story of what my grandma went through several weeks ago in her last 3 weeks of life in the hospital it would make your heart sink. Horror stories from a AZ hospital where my 78 year old grandpa watched nurses and doctors and everyone in between treat the woman he...

Hey brotha, as I told you before I agree with alot of what you said. There are alot of bad EMS providers out there, our educational standards in much of the country could do with vast improvement, and our young profession could use a transfusion of some new higher standards. With that being the...

Where have you been Linuss! I have been holding off the whole world of Paramedic naysers. Could use a little backup from someone with far more expertise and experience than me...............not that its a war but the arguments have been pretty direct and there are some people on this forum with...

First off, I will pass my qualification exams so thanks. Secondly, he said RRT's not RT's. As a RT yourself I would hope you'd know the difference. And there are far more than 200k EMS providers in the US. FDNY has at least 20k by itself there stat boy. 200k Paramedics is more accurate.

Nope. Not a fair comparison as their are FAR less RRT's then Medics. Good night

Oh and BTW....almost NOTHING is black and white in Paramedicine. There is no room for technicians. Most don't graduate and almost none make it to the streets....at least where I am.