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I got a crazy idea...
How 'bout everyone who has been griping about what I've been saying offer up a feasible solution that you can actually implement and see to fruition? You can't because people who aren't you control the structure of the emergency medical system, our levels of certification and scopes of our practice. Simply saying what should be does NOTHING to help the cause. You can become an EMT understanding the scope of what we do, or you can buck it and get frustrated because all of a sudden you know so much more than when you originally got certified.
If you can talk, you're in a place to help influence those in position to make changes. Furthermore, there's nothing stopping anybody from working with the state agencies that do make those decisions. There are plenty of career ladders in EMS, just not plenty that keeps people perpetually in the ambulance.
Read the posts from prospective EMTs on the forum. Remember what it was like to be new, nervous, wide-eyed and curious? Now, you've become disillusioned and frustrated because you think your years of experience have somehow turned to wisdom befitting doctors and that for some reason your scope of practice should be expanded because you've been at this for a while.
First, some of us are becoming doctors. Second, there's nothing wrong with expanding the scope, provided that initial education is also expanded. Just because the system is set up how it currently is doesn't mean that setup is forever set in stone.
No, we all are not all just EMTs.Big whoop. We're all still and just EMTs. If it's not good enough for you the way it is, either get involved so you can actually change it or do something else.