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Just out of curiosity. Out of 10 calls in your district, department whatever how many are actually "true" emergencies?

It might be but unless you have the appropriate equipments, manpower etc in your rig to do TPA's or a Cardiac Cath or whatever then we as EMS or whatever you wanna call yourself, our job is to transport the patient ASAP.

I'd say 8 out 10 calls most EMS departments do are BS calls & most people in EMS know that. Wether Private or FD or whatever, we all go to the ER where the patients can be fixed, all have the same certifications & half the time the patients don't care if we're private FD or whatever as long as...

OP here. So me & my girlfriend were watching TV last night & there was a commercial about a discount for First Responders & I said "Hey I'm a First Responder!" & The look on her face was kinda like "are you high? Are you serious? No you are not." & She said "you don't do emergencies right?" It's...

What if you don't end up doing 911?? And you became content with doing private ems /IFT. Are you less of an EMS provider than others??

Is there any upside of working private EMS??

"95% ofthe time you're basically defrauding medicarejusttaking stable patients from point A to pointB." This. Morally & ethically I have a hard time accepting this but this job pays my rent & groceries. Sometimes I see it this way.. Burger King employee does BK stuff. Target employee does...

The general consensus here seems to be that Private EMS really isn't EMS. Then Medics & EMTs who work for them like I do aren't really professional healthcare workers? Now Police do police things. Firefighters fight fires & do rescue 911. Private ambulances does transport & discharges & our...

Hey everyone OP here. So I've been working more & more ALS now so it's not as mundane as just BLS IFT, I sometimes get to see some pretty cool medical calls & what not but recently I had a conversation with my partner who's been a paramedic since 86' (combat medic, lpn, flight medic...

I work for an ambulance service that primarily does transport. from dialysis to discharge to city to city, State to state transport & some "911" from nursing home, special hospitals, people having emergencies wanting to go to their preferred hospital, Whenever we take somebody to the ER we get...

So were a private ambulance& we were posted outside a freestanding ER & the RRT came up to us & told us we have a STEMI, so we rolled in & seen a nurse talking to our dispatch before we even got the page. Went in the room & seen the pt, the nurses working on the pt, family, my medic got the...

Hello everyone. I've been working as an EMT for a private ambulance company for about 6 months now. Everybody who's worked private ambulance knows the deal or what it's all about (dialysis, discharge, ift, some "911" from a snf, 911 assist, taxi, etc.) Now I am somewhat torn between "I didn't go...

Hey guys. Would it be a good idea to go to EKG/Phlebotomy school? Or just go straight to medic school? I'm currently an EMT. I plan on going to medic school eventually but I'm in no rush cause I know medic school is hard. So I'm thinking if I take that class I could start working at a hospital...

So we were doing a 4hr 15mins IFT & maybe about 3hr 45mins in we took a turn to a county road that ran for like 20 something miles, I was driving 60mph the whole time then there was a flashing light indicating there was a stop light ahead of us, the coast was clear in all directions & suddenly...

Seems like $2 more isn't worth all the schooling & responsibilities for an IFT Medic. One night me & a medic, who happens to be a firefighter too & works part time for the private ambulance company I work for were on standby at a football game & one of the security people came to us & said "are...

Is it worth it to become a medic for a private ambulance company who primarily does IFT? I'm an EMT right now & I've been riding ALS more & more these days & one medic told me just like an EMT on a BLS unit, they're "glorified baby sitters with a monitor & a higher chance of something happening...

Hello everyone. I'm an emt-b & I work for a private ambulance, we primarily do IFT. This is my first ems job & I've been doing it for three months now. However I feel like doing BLS IFT gets no respect from other health care professionals, like one time we were about to take a pt to a snf so I...