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[ERDoc]

Im not really sure of your point here. Im just saying that I have a problem with those that assume because someone is a volunteer, that they provide inferior care. As for the poster that makes the generalization that volunteer providers run 3 or 4 calls a month, its just that, a generalization. In the town just north of me, the volly rescue squad runs 5-6 calls a day on average and alot of them would put so called "professionals" to shame. If the number of calls is the defining parameter, then does a "professional" provider lose their skills when they only run 4 calls in a given shift. The idea that all vollys are worthless and inferior to their paid counterparts is ridiculous and without statistical back up. Almost every time this is brought up, I ask for someone to show me the numbers, and they never do.

Stop thinking so concretely and focusing on the specific numbers. The more you do something the better you are at it. So a volley company is doing 5-6 calls per day. Are every one of those volley squad members on each call so that they can keep up their skills? Would you want to trust your life to a doctor that has only seen 3-4 patients per month for the last year and has not kept up on the journals?

Here is one from a huge volley system. It shows that reguardless of certification level, they are poor at determining cardiac rhythms. I will admit that a problem with this study is that it does not compare the volleys vs paid.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?D...Pubmed_RVDocSum