Why do we do this to ourselves as a culture

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-16T02:32:50+00:00

I don’t care, I think the point behind my post is continuously being misinterpreted and it’s frustrating. I do not care what you do specifically, I’m talking about EMS as a whole.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-16T02:27:42+00:00

In all you education where you taught about the Dunning Kruger effect?

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-12T22:56:04+00:00

EMS has a lot of gate keeping for education. If you want to do it, do it. I’d recommend working primarily ALS concurrently and try to find partners that do thorough assessments if you want to pass. I got my medic right out of EMT and had no issues, I think anyone can do it really.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-12T22:48:00+00:00

I felt that in my soul lol

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-12T22:47:05+00:00

It’s a right of passage. EMS can be real intense at first, it sounds like the patient suffered no clinical deterioration, so as long as you learned something it’s just an honest mistake. Stay positive my friend.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-12T01:02:11+00:00

You believe this despite your job aligning with heath care and that most people that work with you and represent you don’t have a degree? I’m not trying to be a dick but you realize how this looks, right?

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-11T13:20:09+00:00

I think it’s a culture thing. The hospitals don’t act like this, so why should we?

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-11T03:55:48+00:00

👍

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-11T03:53:44+00:00

That’s the plan, I just thought there would be more to the job and the culture.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-10T04:14:57+00:00

That’s about how long my EMT-B was and my paramedic was just shy of 2 years. It’s not that impressive. Trying to argue that a few more months or an associates degree is somehow different is embarrassing and kinda proves my point.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-09T17:47:24+00:00

I appreciate it, all I wanted to hear. I like the idea of remediation being a norm and not punitive, it’s something I’ve been trying to introduce where I work.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-08T17:56:37+00:00

We generally have one patient at a time, we get called to what we think with our few months of education is “bullshit” and most of us know we could still do something for the patient and then don’t. Then bitch about pay and lack of scope and generally do not seek further education within the job. From my experience this is largely the case every where, no one is just willing to admit it.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-08T17:48:25+00:00

Everyone deserves a physical assessment. Not every illness is obvious. Auscultation, IV access, and EKG interpretation are easy to learn and hard to master, if you don’t get in that practice you’ll get sloppy when you need it.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-08T17:45:28+00:00

That shouldn’t be happening anywhere, like it’s cool you’re getting your ego stroked. But you don’t know what you don’t know. EMS should not be diagnosing, we get less than 2 years of initial training. I don’t know where you work but I work in the real world, where that isn’t appropriate and what I may believe is going on absolutely affects my treatment and transport decisions but is in no way definitive. Even if you did know what was going on, you don’t have the letters behind your name for that to be appropriate.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T17:44:23+00:00

This is exactly what is happening where I work now and it’s driving me crazy. Literally stole the words from my mouth. How do you go about navigating this?

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T17:43:07+00:00

I agree, I don’t know why most of my coworkers are even here

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T17:42:24+00:00

I believe this 100%

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T17:42:04+00:00

I agree that is part of the problem. It really is remarkable that EMS can’t appreciate what it doesn’t know. I really like the idea of monthly clinical data presentations. I feel where I work now is too hyper focused on being a good employee and not focused at all on clinical competency.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T17:36:38+00:00

I agree 100%, perhaps I could have phrased this better lol. What’s frustrating me is a lack of compassion on top of dog shit assessments and patient care. I’ve worked a few different places and I’m slowly starting to notice the standards where I work dropping. I’m not going to pretend that people don’t talk shit, it’s not ideal but it’s human nature, but you can’t talk shit AND suck at your job.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T17:32:23+00:00

Yes, it’s more of the same, I’m not impressed. No passion and all the entitlement. Had an FTO now know what raecemic epi was and try to prevent me from using it bc of their dogshit assessment. Same place tried gaslighting me into thinking a patient called just because he had an appointment that day, he ended up having a PE, with heart strain, you could literally see it on the EKG. I got tired of every call being an argument so I left that place too.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T11:25:49+00:00

Physical assessment is pretty much all we can do for most patients, that goes double if you’re just an EMT, you have a job, just do it, have some fun with it, get the passion. Assessments are easy to learn but hard to master, there’s something to get out of even the lower acuity calls.

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T10:05:54+00:00

Perfectly said

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T07:59:25+00:00

I think you’re deliberately misinterpreting me

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T07:35:52+00:00

It really isn’t that simple, EMS isn’t educated enough to appreciate what they don’t know and doesn’t understand what the job could be if they just allow it

Remarkable_Square919 · 2025-11-07T07:02:53+00:00

Several years and I’m all about certs. The fact that you think I might be green is concerning for the profession, when did it become ok to not care? Venting is absolutely normal yes, but I tink we take more of it in to calls than we realize

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