Not sure if I should become an EMT
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Some get used to it, some don't. That is an individual question that you can only answer for yourself. For me, it was never the visual aspect that I had a problem with...it was the smells.
How do you deal with it?
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To be blunt: suck it up and deal with it. It's not your emergency, it's the patient's and if you can't keep your focus then you shouldn't be in the field.
I don't know about most other people, but for me, those bad gory calls are so rare that I actually get excited when I run them. It's the one time I get to be a paramedic and not just a fancy taxi attendant. Those type of calls tend to seem unreal to me and I am almost in denial that it is happening as I attend to the patient. It is a lot less scary looking in real life than what you see on TV. I definitely cover my eyes watching TV, my dad and friends laugh when I used to do that in the movie theaters, but it doesn't look scary to me in real life. For example, if someone gets stabbed or shot, gun shot wounds tend to look like cigar burns to me and you can't usually tell how big the knife was when someone gets stabbed. Someone could be stabbed with a really large long serrated knife and it'll look like they were barely touched with an exactoknife/box cutter to me, haha. The bleeding tend to not be bad, in my opinion, probably because they don't usually hit major artieres even though that tends to be a concern. Like gun shot wounds will have no "hole", just a black small circle with some oozing, like an old scab was ripped or something, haha. Not bad in my opinion.
Thank you. That’s very motivating. I was worried I would see those gory calls everyday. I got my first aid certificate I loved the course so I feel like I would me good becoming an EMT.
More important than how you handle gory calls would be how you are around people -- patients, partners, bosses, bystanders. Be dependable.
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Just curious, how do you "have 2 or 3 years until you finish" high school?
Either you have 2 or you have 3, graduation dates are usually set in stone. Unless you are a home schooler or working on graduating early (hope you are not planning on failing a grade LOL).
Either you have 2 or you have 3, graduation dates are usually set in stone. Unless you are a home schooler or working on graduating early (hope you are not planning on failing a grade LOL).
I just don’t want to go to school for 2 years and waste my money if it’s not for me in the end
I’m behind in credits and I’m not sure exactly how long it will take to graduate I haven’t calculated it. My guidance counsellor says 2 or 3 years. But I’m doing a program where I get high school credits to work. Eventually I’ll go back to a real high school to take medical courses though.