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There's a call out there with your name on it that will make you wonder why you got into this profession, if only for a second. You may never get that call, but it's out there. For me, mine came early in my EMS career. I was doing clinicals at an ER and when I walked through the door, they were...

Since I am not sure if I have posted yet in this thread before it was resurrected, I will go ahead and lay my reason out on the line. The reason that I became an EMT-IV (lowest level of licensure Tennessee offers at the EMT level, excluding some fire depts that do in house EMT-B) was because I...

I don't think this attitude is representative of the majority of EMT's, and I know it does not represent me. I treat my patient as if they were a member of my family, and if that means I clean poo, then I clean poo...AS the old, worn out saying goes, that patient is someone's relative.

someone after my own heart!

This can be true....be very careful......a google search of ER ambulance brings this post up first and foremost, so again, moderation is warranted here...

why are you so happy, if i may be permitted to ask?

Havin been and still being a "hosemonkey" myself ( :D ) I can honestly say that I do not understand the lack of professionalism shown by some firefighters toward pure EMS providers. That said, I have never worked Fire-based EMS, and where I am most places are seperate, with fire being fire and...

From personal experience, I have experienced all of those with an IFT service....I have also experienced driving in adverse conditions in which I shut the lights and siren down for safety...Sometimes you have to be the judge of when running lights and siren in the snow and ice could cause a...

Personally, I would do what I thought was the best path for me. If that involved working on a 911 service as a basic, then so be it. My path may not be your path. Your path may not be mine. But don't let your dreams and goals slip away. If you choose to go to work for a 911 service for the...

There are several county agencies around. As far as just getting a job, I know Walden Security is hiring EMT-IV's to work at the steel mill in Knoxville as EMT/Security Officers. I work at another mill for a different company in a surrounding county.

Feeling the same way today....long story....

We thank you for your translation Mr. Brown. It was well needed.....

Rarely do I chime in on these types of threads, but now I feel that I must. For the most part, I agree with bstone, however, I can see the points posed by both veni and usals. I also think it is important to remember the spirit of what was said by the OP. When we respond out to a scene, it is...

I know of very few people who have ever had a save first time out with CPR.....you did your best and that is all that matters.

You got it!!!!

Living very close to this area, and having many friends who work for Angel, I can say one thing for sure: if the Paramedic on the truck canceled HEMS, there was no need for HEMS. Also, to give ya'll some idea of where Catoosa County is in retrospect to Chattanooga (where Erlanger, our regional...

Told ya'll I was gonna get yelled at for the post. Oh well.... Just a thought....

Ill see what i can do about a cumberland county TN EMS patch and a Bradley County FD patch...

Now, to be fair, I am probably about to get yelled at for this, but please folks, hear me out. This guy might have a case of what my instructor, years ago, called the -P syndrome. The -P syndrome is where a Paramdic forgets that his licensure starts out with the letters EMT. I do not see it a...

I sic them on the cat....