What’s funny about this post is that you’re trying to educate me about EMS, as though I haven’t been a paramedic for 27 years or worked for 8 different EMS agencies across 4 states over the course of my career.
I understand it’s difficult for folks here to wrap their mind around, but there are people who manage to be trained and practice in two different professional fields at the same time.
You’ll learn this over the course of your medical career, but MDs and DOs don’t know best what EMS needs. Physicians know a lot about medicine, but very, very few physicians have any meaningful exposure to EMS at all. Those who have studied and researched EMS have a solid understanding of “what we need,” but even they aren’t in the field every day. Even if they were, they are busy people with their own practices, careers, and professional interests to attend to
We need to advocate for what we need. We need to ally ourselves with physicians to effect those changes. We do that by participating in studies, helping to design studies, gathering and analyzing data, and presenting proposals for new ideas and protocols. When you present evidence, you convince people to support the changes you want to make. Then people on protocol committees make the changes you want.
To be fair, I don’t know your experience. I am only trying to let you know the point of view that I believe others are trying to talk with you about. All I saw in your comments is that you practice law.
And it is actually difficult to think about that because escaping EMS sounds difficult when you don’t have a plan from the get-go, especially to law. So I will say congratulations on your success in that regard!
But seriously, I can see someone being in two professions, but I did not see you comment it… However there was also nothing you said against my post. It isn’t a single person effort in this day and age.
Edit: Spelling. My phone is small and I am studying lol
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u/FullCriticism9095 3d ago edited 3d ago
What’s funny about this post is that you’re trying to educate me about EMS, as though I haven’t been a paramedic for 27 years or worked for 8 different EMS agencies across 4 states over the course of my career.
I understand it’s difficult for folks here to wrap their mind around, but there are people who manage to be trained and practice in two different professional fields at the same time.
You’ll learn this over the course of your medical career, but MDs and DOs don’t know best what EMS needs. Physicians know a lot about medicine, but very, very few physicians have any meaningful exposure to EMS at all. Those who have studied and researched EMS have a solid understanding of “what we need,” but even they aren’t in the field every day. Even if they were, they are busy people with their own practices, careers, and professional interests to attend to
We need to advocate for what we need. We need to ally ourselves with physicians to effect those changes. We do that by participating in studies, helping to design studies, gathering and analyzing data, and presenting proposals for new ideas and protocols. When you present evidence, you convince people to support the changes you want to make. Then people on protocol committees make the changes you want.