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Back to the issue at hand, being a volunteer should never be used as an excuse not to conduct yourself professionally or be adaquately trained to do your job. If the training requirements are made to be unreasonably difficult to meet, that is a different issue all together.
Why is it that we divide this up into these 2 catagories:
VOLUNTEER (sneer) vs. PROFESSIONAL
The catagories actually go like this:
PROFESSIONAL VOLUNTEERS & PAID PROFESSIONALS vs. NON-PROFESSIONALS. Just because you are a volunteer doesn't mean that you don't have the same dedication and commitment to the art/craft/field as those that are paid. If peoples attacks are against the folks in emergency services that are not professional, than I say look aound and start singling out those that are Paid Un-Professionals in our field first. They get paid for what they do and still don't take it seriously (I know many more of those in my neck of the woods thenthe rare volunteer un-professionals). If it is a matter of raiseing the standards that volunteers must meet in order to be in the field, then fine, no argument that all (paid included) should have the standards raised to be taken seriously by the community and to provide above-adequate care to our patients and the community we serve; but a blacketed bash against volunteers only helps to divide an already divided field of emergency services.
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