That is all well and good but in the USA street medicine is a low level specialty. Want to stay a paramedic? Do so but get a flight medic job. New challenges, more acute patients. Or, go get your RN or MD. Or, God forbid, become a fire based paramedic and make some real money and real benefits.
There are a few really good medics in ALCO with more then 15 or 20 years on but they are few and far between. Most of them are trapped in a job they hate because they never went back to school. Forty and 50 year olds working in a 20/30 something job. I see them when I partner with them on my ambulance per diems or when I work on an engine/truck. Every time we get calls they grumble and :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:. Then after the calls they :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored: how the pt. "sucked" or was drug seeking or whatever. These people should have left EMS years ago but they never put in the work to move up. Those are the ones who I am talking about. They know who they are and so do you.