EMS Public relations role playing...

[PRPGfirerescuetech]

FREAKS...not what I meant!

Damn medics...ugh....anyway....

Ive said before, and ill say it again. EMS needs a definable PR rep to handle educating the country on the uses and services provided by Emergency Medical Service here in the US and around the world.

How would you do it? How do you show the world what we do?

[Ridryder 911]

First it would NOT be David Lee Roth ...

True a national spokesperson that has some creditability would be nice. Too many local EMS allow ones that have good intentions to be the local PR person, unfortunately they usually are the ones that make you cringe even when they talk to kindergarten students.

Each service should have a designated PR person or spokesperson. Hopefully, these individuals do not have a speech impediment and can pronounce words properly & use proper grammar.

But yet again, it is usually "turfed" to whomever will do it...

R/R 911

[Dustdevil]

And it would NOT be the NAEMT and one of their grey haired old men in their goofy arse "class A" uniform that looks like it was stolen from Idi Amin. And it would not be Joe Fire Chief in his gold badge and bell hat either. But likewise, it would not be Mr. Slick with his MBA and pin-striped three-piece suit looking and smiling like a funeral director either. The key to success would be to establish our own unique new identity that isn't mistaken for any of the above, and proceed to promote that image publicly. But, therein lies the conundrum.

The debate over whether or not we are medical professionals or public safety labourers is still raging out of control and cripples any efforts to rehab our image. Too many people in positions of responsibility in EMS are too interested in perpetuating the status quo. They want to keep doing things the way they've always done them while still hoping for different results. Or worse yet, they don't even realise that the system is broken to begin with. Consequently, we are a very long way from a clear consensus on what our image even is, much less how to effectively present it to the public.

Just look at that ridiculous PR film that PA made last year. That's what you happen when you hire a PR firm to promote an image they don't even have the slightest understanding of. I rest my case.

Another disgusting, fatalistic display of negativity, without any answers or positive suggestion, brought to you courtesy of The Dustdevil.