Can you describe the EMS enviroment?

Robb said:
Yep.

I've seen lots of hate towards younger urban providers lately....I'm young, been in the field for two years, probably run more calls than some of those career rural medics. Not saying that's the end all be all but you have to take that into consideration. Did a hair over 1600 911 calls last year, not including IFTs or everything I ran in my internship...so we'll call it a square 2000 runs in 12 months.
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It's funny how different your concept of busy becomes in a more rural system though. I personally transported three patients last night, went to a couple more calls with my partner, and had the bad luck to be near a cardiac arrest that I had to respond on. The end result of those few fairly long transport calls (plus a 20 mile hot response and cancellation across the county) had me absolutely wiped out. Before, doing 10 calls in a night wasn't a huge deal. Now, with longer turnaround times, distances, and all ALS, my "busy" threshold has changed dramatically.
 
So true. I used to work 48s and overtime would be a 72. No problem. I worked an 18 and I was dead.
 
chaz90 said:
It's funny how different your concept of busy becomes in a more rural system though. I personally transported three patients last night, went to a couple more calls with my partner, and had the bad luck to be near a cardiac arrest that I had to respond on. The end result of those few fairly long transport calls (plus a 20 mile hot response and cancellation across the county) had me absolutely wiped out. Before, doing 10 calls in a night wasn't a huge deal. Now, with longer turnaround times, distances, and all ALS, my "busy" threshold has changed dramatically.
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Truth.

I can run a few emergencies, couple transfers or CCT calls, add in a tour of the county for coverage and I'm wiped after 12 hours. Even worse if my partner gets a few BLS transfers.
 
EMS environment = Money, Girls, Adrenaline, Hero status, Even more money, and respect from everyone.

In reality none of the above is true
 
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