The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

JULY 1, 2020

As paramedics, whilst we often take great offence at being called ambulance drivers, the question is, when it’s our turn to drive, what exactly is it that we are providing? Do we fully engage in shared patient care with our attending partner, or do we switch off so that we can simply drive the ambulance and take it easy?

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NCOAE

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And they’re certainly not “Ambulance Drivers.” The NREMT itself started out with an “EMT-Ambulance” or “EMT-A,” later adding an “EMT-Non-Ambulance” designation. There is nothing “basic” about what an EMT learns or the skills he or she can perform.

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NCOAE

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

EMTs are not just “ambulance drivers,” although that’s certainly a critical part of their occupation. Many EMTs work on a 911 emergency response ambulance. Two EMTs work together on an ambulance to transport people to/from nursing homes, doctor’s appointments or hospitals. Shifts most commonly are 12 or 24 hours.

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Ambulance Driver Files

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Hit a couple of personal records running in the pool today:Did 75 laps in 60 minutes, a personal best. Hit 100 laps in 82 minutes, also the most ever.Kept going and hit 109 laps in 90 minutes, although the last nine or so were more of a drunken weave/stagger.354 354 pounds on the scale today, another.

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Ambulance Driver Files

MAY 29, 2023

Today is Memorial Day. Normally, most of us would have spent the weekend grilling burgers and visiting with relatives, or lounging on a beach somewhere, or watching a baseball game in an opulent stadium, overpriced beer and hot dog in hand, but let’s not forget the meaning of the day. So when you partake in.

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Ambulance Driver Files

MAY 31, 2023

One of the most egregious disservices to EMS students is what passes for medicolegal education in EMT or Paramedic school. Far too often, students are subjected to myth, dogma and outright b t from instructors who have at best a superficial understanding of the subject, most of whom have never had their lessons taught or vetted.

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Broken Paramedic

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Dear frontline ambulance colleagues, After 12 years of responding to 999 calls and subsequently watching from the sidelines as family and friends continue to do so, I am only too aware of the ever increasing pressures and the ongoing erosion of the ambulance clinicians’ lot. Not without a physical examination to rule things out.

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