Technically speaking, wouldn't a cookbook medic be the best medic?

[gotbeerz001]

The first sentence of my protocols is probably the most important...

This is not to "cover their arse"; it is a reminder that you need to know how to do your job.


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[Tigger]

A medical director writes all of the protocols as standing orders for ems, so for a medic to following everything to the dot, he/she is following orders to a tee, exactly how his/her medical provider wants them to. Plus, it'll have the strongest chance to winning in a malpractice lawsuit because the paramedic was doing everything that he/she was supposed to be doing.

Do you even medicine bro?

Do the patient's always fit the protocols?

 

[E tank]

Will anyone get hurt if a medic follows "protocol" to a tee?

 

[DrParasite]

A medical director writes all of the protocols as standing orders for ems, so for a medic to following everything to the dot, he/she is following orders to a tee, exactly how his/her medical provider wants them to.

Theoretically, yes. In theory. This also assumes that the medical director has a protocol for every imaginable situation. And the medical director updates the protocols frequently, and keeps up with the latest information. and has their providers use the current medications to treat every situation.

Plus, it'll have the strongest chance to winning in a malpractice lawsuit because the paramedic was doing everything that he/she was supposed to be doing.

No. what MIGHT happen is the paramedic will be dismissed as a named defendant, and only the agency and medical director will have to suffer the consequences. Or the court will say the paramedic should have known better.