Ethanol4all
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Hey Guys,
I finally finished my EMT-Basic class, got through the NREMT_B np, and grabbed my license asap..... and I couldn't help but feel .... "that's it?"
...honestly, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to any seasoned EMT-B's here, I felt as if Basics are allowed to do nothing but serve as extra hands, possibly to set up an IV or Oxygen, and to work as human triage buffers to make sure a small medical problem or a bogus call doesn't wake up the lazy ALS team that's sleeping back at base. Lol.....well now that I've offended every EMS member....
It just seemed to me that EMT-B's in real life actually don't get to do jack-squat in urban/suburban areas, and I found that ridiculously frustrating. Granted that if i was the patient, I'd want paramedics and no one else working on me....but it just seems to me that EMT-B's are useless in actually healing a patient. At best, we possess minimal knowledge in keeping the patient alive until better help can get to them.
Don't get me wrong, there's no doubt that Basics are the foundation of EMS... and maybe i'm just being ambitious at the age of 18, but I couldn't help but feel that at the end of the day, we're inferior and ridiculously subordinate and even useless compared to nurses, PA's, paramedics, and the almighty M.D.'s.....
I finally finished my EMT-Basic class, got through the NREMT_B np, and grabbed my license asap..... and I couldn't help but feel .... "that's it?"
...honestly, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to any seasoned EMT-B's here, I felt as if Basics are allowed to do nothing but serve as extra hands, possibly to set up an IV or Oxygen, and to work as human triage buffers to make sure a small medical problem or a bogus call doesn't wake up the lazy ALS team that's sleeping back at base. Lol.....well now that I've offended every EMS member....
It just seemed to me that EMT-B's in real life actually don't get to do jack-squat in urban/suburban areas, and I found that ridiculously frustrating. Granted that if i was the patient, I'd want paramedics and no one else working on me....but it just seems to me that EMT-B's are useless in actually healing a patient. At best, we possess minimal knowledge in keeping the patient alive until better help can get to them.
Don't get me wrong, there's no doubt that Basics are the foundation of EMS... and maybe i'm just being ambitious at the age of 18, but I couldn't help but feel that at the end of the day, we're inferior and ridiculously subordinate and even useless compared to nurses, PA's, paramedics, and the almighty M.D.'s.....