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Ambulance Driver or Paramedic?

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

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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Suspicion

Peter Canning

The ambulance company. The ambulance company? I am tempted to say, I am the ambulance company and I am asking for it. We are there to simply carry her mother out to the ambulance, drive her to the hospital. We are there to simply carry her mother out to the ambulance, drive her to the hospital. How bout insurance?

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Opinion: There’s Nothing “Basic” About an EMT

NCOAE

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. They know how to safely move you onto a stretcher, into an ambulance, and transport you to the appropriate facility.

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Exactly What Is It That an EMT Does?

NCOAE

EMTs are not just “ambulance drivers,” although that’s certainly a critical part of their occupation. EMTs are not just “ambulance drivers,” although that’s certainly a critical part of their occupation. For EMTs and patients, an ambulance is more than transportation to the hospital. Where Else do EMTs Work?

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Dear Ambulance Staff: Six 111 Myths and Misconceptions

Broken Paramedic

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. ” Ouch.

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Milestones and Breakthroughs

Ambulance Driver Files

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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Memorial Day

Ambulance Driver Files

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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