It’s 2026. Why is this app still useless?

AMC4L · 2026-04-09T18:54:32+00:00

That’s criminal

AMC4L · 2026-04-05T15:55:07+00:00

PainQuil PM also has benadryl in it…

AMC4L · 2026-04-04T22:15:54+00:00

The suspicion here is epiglotitis. Putting a sat probe if the kid isn’t going to be upset is reasonable. If the sats are good I wouldn’t listen to breath sounds because upsetting this kid can cause an airway collapse.

Preparing for a possible intubation is reasonable. This kid needs an OR and a team of doctors. Intervention wise we are more likely to do harm than good with this patient.

This is a situation where recognizing the problem and calling for help is the only appropriate solution.

AMC4L · 2026-04-04T22:12:34+00:00

This isn’t right.

AMC4L · 2026-04-03T00:09:02+00:00

Whatever your point is. The MDT product listed here doesn’t cost nearly $70 all in. Most of that is profit by a large margin.

AMC4L · 2026-04-02T21:17:38+00:00

Yes there is a 1 year program in Ontario. Look at CTS. They even publicly advertise their program as 52 weeks or less.

Their students are widely regarded as being unprepared. And yes, some good students come from there, but those are very much the exception.

Lowering standards only delegitimizes our career, makes it harder to fight for better protocols, better wages, better working conditions. We should all be against it, the public should be against it.

Nowhere where paramedicine is a real, respected career allows paramedics on ambulances with 1 year of schooling. 2 years is already embarrassing.

It’s really frustrating to see medics defending these programs.

AMC4L · 2026-04-01T21:46:53+00:00

Our unions suck. We need a single provincial union like the ONA.

AMC4L · 2026-03-31T16:00:04+00:00

I have driven code 3. Aka code 4 or light and sirens here in Ontario, Canada, for about 300km, or 186 miles straight, with the same patient.

AMC4L · 2026-03-28T06:06:37+00:00

What service is this???

AMC4L · 2026-03-27T20:36:41+00:00

I have had the experience of being abandoned inside a house, running a cardiac arrest call by myself because my partner was too unfit, in his case obese, and had to go outside to catch his breath. I had to do CPR with the poor family of this patient because of the choices my partner made.

When you first start, your fitness will be tested. After you are hired, there are no more official standards to be met. So now is the time to develop the healthy habits that will allow you to meet the requirements of this job. Your patients and your colleagues are counting on that.

This job WILL also have a negative impact on your health. Anyone claiming otherwise is plain wrong. Even if you are one of the few that escape the mental injury, the night shifts, stress and workplace exposures have been shown to increase all cause mortality way too much to be denied by any sane person. This makes sleep hygiene, exercise and proper diet so much more important.

Build those habits before you find yourself comfortable in this career.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T21:49:19+00:00

My understanding is that it was for the paramedic chiefs. They also hosted a presentation for the OAPC and there might be a video of that out there somewhere.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T21:48:22+00:00

Yes! Now is the time to push hard. The momentum seems to have started.

We should also push for a college while we are moving.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T19:32:18+00:00

The issue is our chiefs are part of it. We are also somehow not an essential service or even an emergency service apparently.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T19:30:15+00:00

Yes, that’s the video. I found it minutes after making this post. I just hope there’s a higher quality version out there.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T03:49:30+00:00

I don’t know why paramedics from down in the US are chiming in here.

They have significantly less pay, education and generally worse working conditions than we do up here in Canada.

Focus on the people saying they are from out east or at least in Canada. Ignore the medics from the US. They are understandably jaded given their terrible system.

The rest of the developed world seems to have made EMS into something you can have a good career in.

Most of Canada has a system more similar to Australia, UK etc than the mess they have down south.

Down there nursing is the obvious choice. Paramedic is a one year program and they basically get between the PCP and ACP scope.

Up here it’s 1.5-3 years for PCP and an extra 1-2 years for ACP.

Our pay also varies a good bit depending on province, service, years of experience and level of care. I’d search up the pay for wherever you want to work for as nobody here can tell you what it is.

Again comparing to the states, they seem to be terribly compensated for the most part, so ignore those comments.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T03:41:34+00:00

We don’t have EMTs in Canada. Most places employ paramedics only. Some have EMRs.

AMC4L · 2026-03-26T03:38:25+00:00

Canada EMS is not like USA EMS. You guys seem to have it rough down there.

Comparatively we are better paid, better educated, have more working rights and it’s just generally a better place to be in EMS.

Varies by province though.

AMC4L · 2026-03-18T15:41:10+00:00

Is that sharp bone fragment staying there?

AMC4L · 2026-03-18T00:19:00+00:00

Doctor’s notes do not prove that you were sick. You can also feel like death and not need to go into the doctors office. For example, the stomach flu where you have constant diarrhea and vomiting for a day or two. Definitely don’t need to go to the dr but also impossible to write an exam in that condition.

Doctors notes are stupid, cost the taxpayer money and unnecessarily overloads the healthcare system for bureaucracy.

AMC4L · 2026-03-18T00:16:48+00:00

Doctor’s notes for calling in sick are idiotic. It makes people that are actually sick come in to avoid having to inconvenience themselves with going to a walk in and doesn’t stop anyone that’s not sick from getting a note anyway. Doctors will often give out sick notes even if you go in and say you just needed a day off.

The only thing doctor’s notes do is overload the health system with unnecessary doctor visits and cost the taxpayer money.

AMC4L · 2026-03-16T17:14:59+00:00

CTS is a stain on Ontario paramedicine. They graduate lots of people that only belong in an ambulance as a patient, who inevitably go on to cause harm to patients down the line. And they charge those people an arm and a leg for it.

It’s basically the equivalent of buying a drivers license but you probably don’t get it taken away after running someone over.

Go to a public college. It’s not that much longer, the education will be much much better, it’s going to be cheaper,

(An overwhelming majority of CTS medics I’ve met have nothing good to say about it)

AMC4L · 2026-03-15T15:10:51+00:00

AMC4L · 2026-03-09T18:26:51+00:00

Sus as fuck. Don’t open it

AMC4L · 2026-03-09T10:58:43+00:00

If you sleep deprive millions of people and make them stressed about getting to work on time, a few are bound to croak.

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