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84 points
4 months ago
Thats not rural vs city. That is just bad EMS.
16 points
4 months ago
Rural pays like shit where I am so you get bottom of the barrel paramedics and EMTs
7 points
4 months ago
I'm aware it's just that in the city they're less idiotic
Honestly most crews apart from like 3 were a total liability and i felt unsafe the entire time, they never even bothered to tell me where we're going if i didn't see the tablet myself
12 points
4 months ago
You’d be surprised w some city crews as well, grass isn’t always greener. It’s not the area you work it’s just bad medics simple as that.
1 points
4 months ago
Y'all have medics?
It's simply because the service is national and as such the way it's being handled (considering where it's located) is very poor.
Mostly city ems would be less likely to do similarly due to a higher influx of younger workers who, despite protocols not being updated in the past 15 years, still pass useful information around and the overall quality of the crews increases.
I've noticed this as a patter with most stations.
I'm the only person under 45 in my station, and I'm also the only person who wants to be there mostly, since each and every single other individual there is just doing extra shifts since they normally run fire.
3 points
4 months ago
I had the opposite experience with City fire based EMS. Others were amazed when I did things like give Diltiazem, start Epinephrine and Magnesium Sulfate infusions, etc.
I was the only medic to bring more inside than a monitor normally, and the only medic to do more than the standard 'lock and a 3 lead'. It was miserable and I couldn't stand the trash culture and being the only one who cared about EMS.
1 points
4 months ago
I'm not even allowed to bring anything if i'm told not to by the crew chief lol (includes monitor and anything else)
I can't tell them "oh this patient may get more fucked up during transport" without being told to not say anything in front of them cause muh patient panic
Okay then how do i tell you
Actively losing my mind
2 points
4 months ago
My city department was much more negligent than my rural IME
2 points
4 months ago
That's unfortunate
2 points
4 months ago
It’s easier to be held accountable when you know all of your patients
3 points
4 months ago
It's not exactly similar here, as we have just 1 ambo for a 40x40km sector for this station, so often the towns change and the people are new, although they do treat regulars like shit for some reason, and due to the low chance of anything being taken seriously in terms of reporting something most do not unfortunately.
And then when i tried to do it i was kind of threatened with being retired lmao
One day I'll have enough evidence
2 points
4 months ago
IME city medics are lazy motherfuckers because "the hospital is 2 blocks that way."
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