I asked this question within a thread once directly, but that person didn't respond, so I guess I'll ask a broader audience.
Back home (I'm in college hours away) I work for a private BLS service doing emergent and non-emergent transport. We also have a mutual-aid contract with the county, so we pick up a good number of their transports as well. My company's entire staff is made up of basics and drivers -and one medic.
The company I work for is contracted (for several years now) to work at a local dirt track. When cars flip, we go out. When people in the stands get too drunk, we go out. We have 2 of our trucks out there and a local volunteer fd brings a truck, too. If there isn't at least one truck on standby, races don't happen. When called down, one rig goes out and the other hangs back unless it is obviously more than one truck should handle or the first truck calls back for assistance.
That medic is one of those guys that only wants to go out on "good" calls. Usually we go, check someone out, and get a refusal, but on those times that we do transport, out medic likes to prod. Obviously if it's more than a BLS call, we're calling for intercept, but he steps on toes and knows it.
So here's my question: If we do have to transport, and the medic begins to poke, should we let him take over just because he's a medic, even if it is a BLS service and he can only use the same skills we can?
Back home (I'm in college hours away) I work for a private BLS service doing emergent and non-emergent transport. We also have a mutual-aid contract with the county, so we pick up a good number of their transports as well. My company's entire staff is made up of basics and drivers -and one medic.
The company I work for is contracted (for several years now) to work at a local dirt track. When cars flip, we go out. When people in the stands get too drunk, we go out. We have 2 of our trucks out there and a local volunteer fd brings a truck, too. If there isn't at least one truck on standby, races don't happen. When called down, one rig goes out and the other hangs back unless it is obviously more than one truck should handle or the first truck calls back for assistance.
That medic is one of those guys that only wants to go out on "good" calls. Usually we go, check someone out, and get a refusal, but on those times that we do transport, out medic likes to prod. Obviously if it's more than a BLS call, we're calling for intercept, but he steps on toes and knows it.
So here's my question: If we do have to transport, and the medic begins to poke, should we let him take over just because he's a medic, even if it is a BLS service and he can only use the same skills we can?