You know, I work with some of the best EMT's in town from Life Star Medical Services. They are a great professional group of people, but they can get a bad wrap sometimes. They are underpaid and overworked and they do it not for the money (cause they really are underpaid) they do it cause they love the job, the job of helping others and saving lives. Here's the thing though, in the military a EMT is trained in all types of medical services everything from patching up a sucken chest wound to performing feild surgery to save the life of a fellow soldier, the problem is when they get out of the military they can't even get a job as a EMT and if they do they can't even give an IV. Folks something needs to be done here, first off there shouldn't be any difference or levels of EMT's, they should all be trained accordingly, I don't want to hear I'm sorry sir we need to wait for a EMT-I to give you a IV or a shot of morphine, cause you never know you might be dead before they show up. It's time for the policy to change, start supplying our medics with the proper training and support that they need to do thier jobs and start paying them for what they are worth.
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