Do "High-Performance" Employers Actually Want Experience?

[triemal04]

I could go on and on... The sexy stuff isn't really bringing much to the table, aside from feeding paramedic ego and making for increased difficulty in maintaining competency in the low frequency procedures.

Let's look closely at what we do and realize that the sizzle really doesn't matter. It SHOULD be mostly a series of simple interventions, performed in a timely manner, followed by a safe, comfortable ride to definitive care.

Whoa whoa whoa there tiger.

MY ego is the only thing that matters in this job. Because I'm a life saving heart-breaking hero! I mean a super badass clinician! I mean the future of EMS! I'm so good I run rings around doctors and my top notch department gives me everything I need to save lives. In fact I'm so good I can make a difference just by thinking about it. How do I know this? Why let me just tell you.

I'm so good I can do whatever I want whenever I want; if I see some procedure done on youtube and I think it's appropriate...well I just go out and start doing it! Pfffft...data you say? Proof of effectiveness you say? Correlation to clinical outcomes? Ain't nobody got time for that!

My drug box is so big it takes 3 people to carry it. It's got more drugs than most ER's. My ambulance has a ultrasound, a portable x-ray and hauls a trailer with a CT scanner. When a new gadget hits the market we have it on the trucks before anyone else. We've got every automated device ever made for EMS and believe me, I use them all. Training you say? Appropriateness of medical interventions you ask? Pffft...I'm just so good I don't need to worry about that, just like my whole department. And you know we're that good because we do all these high-speed low-drag things that nobody else does.

Get with the program people; we need to show the world our worth! We've got to prove how good paramedics are! And how do you prove that? Why, you push as many drugs as possible and perform every procedure under the sun! Duh! It ain't rocket science kids!

In fact, I think I'm the Chuck Norris of EMS.

 

[SandpitMedic]

Okay.

I'm not saying that we are doing everything right.

And if everyone is viewing his posts differently... Than perhaps it's me who's got the wrong perceptions. My bad.


Still though: #REMI2016
Such a persuasive and charasmatic son of a gun.

"Jump off that bridge... Because in 87.454532% of cases in 2011 people were able to will themselves to fly and float down safely."

"Okay, Remi!"

Gimme that kool aid!

 

[Carlos Danger]

I want to see paramedicine advance, and I want to see paramedics fairly compensated and respected. I still have lots of friends who are full-time paramedics, and some are really good street clinicians. I like to think I was a pretty decent one too, though I've known plenty who are better at it than I was.

All that aside though, the whole point here is the patients. And in the field we do A LOT of BS that doesn't help our patients. It costs money and it carries risk. Most of it is well-intentioned, but a fair amount of it, if we are 100% honest, we do just because we like to, because it makes us feel like rock stars.

And SandPit, you overestimate my intelligence. I'm an average guy who has been fortunate to get some really great experience, and I read and think a lot. That's all. I do appreciate the sort-of compliment, though, even if it wasn't meant as such .