nypamedic43

North has an easy button?? well dayum, i want one to LOL. and since i dont have one, i now have to find one, before i can answer.

hmmmmm right on the triscuits, not so good on the oatmeal. TPBM..........has eaten green crayons under a full moon

Here's my question, how did we go from questioning a medics decision, to BLS bashing? Basic skills are important, do you medics remember them??? A B C's??? Without them you have nothing, and all your monitoring, IV skills and drug pushing mean absolutely nothing if you don't have a viable patient. I am so relieved to know that 500+ hours of education that I have had, in order to be able to help someone in their time of need, can be so belittled and meaningless to the medics that I work with, or the medics from all over the world. It does my heart good to know that I, as a basic EMT, is lower than dirt to them, and am only good enough to drive them to the hospital. Thanks so much for that, and if this attitude is what comes with being a medic, you can keep it.

There have been numerous times that I have questioned what my medic has done, usually after the call is over and we are discussing it. I usually learn something when that happens. However, there have been a handful of times that I have stopped them on a scene, and asked "What the heck are you doing??" it gave them a reality check and they realized that they were about to make a huge mistake. They thanked me later for stopping them. Anytime I have ever done that, I have always had the patients best interests at heart. It also helps if an EMT knows the Paramedic protocols, as well as their own. If you have a doubt or something doesn't seem right, differs from the norm of what you have seen them do before, speak up. They won't fault you for having good patient care at heart. Teri