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Some very nice pictures
 

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Please feel free to add your own pictures to this :)
 

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Image about the clown dispatching makes me think about another thread,
Where a guy dispatched the new guys to a grave yard saying FD had a Mass Cas. with unresponsive Pt.'s. :P
 
Cameron said:
Image about the clown dispatching makes me think about another thread,
Where a guy dispatched the new guys to a grave yard saying FD had a Mass Cas. with unresponsive Pt.'s. :P
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HAHA I remember reading that! lol
 
Cameron said:
Image about the clown dispatching makes me think about another thread,
Where a guy dispatched the new guys to a grave yard saying FD had a Mass Cas. with unresponsive Pt.'s. :P
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That was my old partner! :)
 
katgrl2003 said:
The dispatcher... he has a weird sense of humor. :P
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Gotcha, So he was the dispatcher, now he is one of the patients for the next Medic Unit that pisses off a dispatcher and sends them to that address lol :P haha
 
and some more!

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Not too bad right???

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Not too bad at all! Obviously this guy's angel was keeping up with him that day! lol
 
sbemt4596 said:
Here are a few more interesting pictures, lol!

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People who moan about being called an ambulance driver without offering an appropriate universal alternative term (instead of expecting the public to know the difference and how to differentiate between an EMT and a paramedic) are simply people who are not comfortable and at peace with the job they choose to do.
 
JPINFV said:
People who moan about being called an ambulance driver without offering an appropriate universal alternative term (instead of expecting the public to know the difference and how to differentiate between an EMT and a paramedic) are simply people who are not comfortable and at peace with the job they choose to do.
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My partner would say just call us paragods, oh hell just call us god! I agree and it doesn't really bother me when regular people call us ambulance drivers, it only bothers me when it's people who should know better, i.e. doctors, nurses, etc.
 
Why should a physician or nurse outside of emergency medicine or trauma know better?
 
JPINFV said:
Why should a physician or nurse outside of emergency medicine or trauma know better?
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idk about where you're from but here nurses are kind of anal about us knowing each of their specialties. They expect me to know that they are Psych, ICU, NICU, Peds, CCU, OR, etc. even though at the moment that I'm meeting them they are in the ED. There are only a few different levels of EMS, so it they expect us to know the difference between all the different specialties that they are isn't it only fair that they know ours?
 
While I hate to get this thread off the topic of hilarious pictures (hilarity being the sole reason I lurk this forum anyway), I present you a solution for the "what shall we call ourselves' dilemma, as found in the province of Ontario:

Paramedics. Instead of EMT-B ("EMTs") and EMT-P ("Paramedics") - and all the distinctions in between - pick a title. Either call everyone an EMT, and then get into specifics regarding levels, or (as we do in Ontario) call everyone a paramedic. We have Primary Care Paramedics (PCP), Advanced Care Paramedics (ACP), and in some cases Critical Care Paramedics. But all can be easily referred to the umbrella term written on the side of all ambulances in the province: PARAMEDIC.

Makes things simple, because we all know the public needs that.



Anyway, bring more of the funny!
 
GR1N53N said:
Paramedics. Instead of EMT-B ("EMTs") and EMT-P ("Paramedics") - and all the distinctions in between - pick a title. Either call everyone an EMT, and then get into specifics regarding levels, or (as we do in Ontario) call everyone a paramedic. We have Primary Care Paramedics (PCP), Advanced Care Paramedics (ACP), and in some cases Critical Care Paramedics. But all can be easily referred to the umbrella term written on the side of all ambulances in the province: PARAMEDIC.
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Its an interesting thought, since in the US our EMT-Is have the same skillset (though not necessarily education, lest this become an argument) as many "paramedics" in other parts of the world. I'm sure there are places where our EMT-Bs would be called paramedics.

It wouldn't be a problem except in the US half the people don't know what an EMT is.
 
GR1N53N I completely agree with you, we need a more universal name for us here. Canada has it right in my humble opinion. In the US we are all EMTs - EMT-B, EMT-I, EMT-P. So we can easily stick with that, but than again the paramedics with ego issues wont be so fond of being called ... gulp ... EMTs.

jjesusfreak01 the best answer that I have for you is education. If we take the time to promote ourselves and educate the public they will know what an EMT is.
 
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