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Where I live it seems like we have a fair number of Spanish-only speaking patients but we also run into a wide range of folks that speak other languages like Russian, French, and Korean. Does anyone else run into non-english speaking patients on a regular basis? If so, what language would be...

I became an EMT at age 34 and didn't run into any issues. In fact, in my experience a lot of EMS employers seem to like people with a little more "life experience" since there are a ton of 18-21 year olds fresh out of EMT/medic school.