Comments on: Snapshot from the Paramedic Battlefield http://firegeezer.com/2009/10/12/snapshot-from-the-paramedic-battlefield/ The Fire/EMS Digital Dayroom Thu, 24 May 2012 01:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Next Paramedic Shortage | Firegeezer http://firegeezer.com/2009/10/12/snapshot-from-the-paramedic-battlefield/comment-page-1/#comment-4077 The Next Paramedic Shortage | Firegeezer Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:19:01 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=16031#comment-4077 [...] You need PhDs to deliver on a need articulated by Kelly Grayson in Ambulance Driver: First of all, until paramedics define themselves by a unique body of knowledge rather than by a patch and a skill set, we’re not going to be taken seriously by other health care providers. That body of knowledge is going to require education far broader and deeper than most current EMS educational programs offer. (quoted from this earlier Firegeezer blog entry HERE) [...] [...] You need PhDs to deliver on a need articulated by Kelly Grayson in Ambulance Driver: First of all, until paramedics define themselves by a unique body of knowledge rather than by a patch and a skill set, we’re not going to be taken seriously by other health care providers. That body of knowledge is going to require education far broader and deeper than most current EMS educational programs offer. (quoted from this earlier Firegeezer blog entry HERE) [...]

]]> By: Mike "FossilMedic" Ward http://firegeezer.com/2009/10/12/snapshot-from-the-paramedic-battlefield/comment-page-1/#comment-4050 Mike "FossilMedic" Ward Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:05:45 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=16031#comment-4050 Thanks Rogue, I appreciate the work you are doing. Mike Thanks Rogue, I appreciate the work you are doing.

Mike

]]> By: Mike "FossilMedic" Ward http://firegeezer.com/2009/10/12/snapshot-from-the-paramedic-battlefield/comment-page-1/#comment-15748 Mike "FossilMedic" Ward Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:05:00 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=16031#comment-15748 Thanks Rogue, I appreciate the work you are doing. Mike Thanks Rogue, I appreciate the work you are doing.

Mike

]]> By: Rogue Medic http://firegeezer.com/2009/10/12/snapshot-from-the-paramedic-battlefield/comment-page-1/#comment-4049 Rogue Medic Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:20:47 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=16031#comment-4049 Oh yeah. Thank you for the link. :-) Oh yeah. Thank you for the link. :-)

]]> By: Rogue Medic http://firegeezer.com/2009/10/12/snapshot-from-the-paramedic-battlefield/comment-page-1/#comment-15747 Rogue Medic Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:20:00 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=16031#comment-15747 Oh yeah. Thank you for the link. :-) Oh yeah. Thank you for the link. :-)

]]> By: Rogue Medic http://firegeezer.com/2009/10/12/snapshot-from-the-paramedic-battlefield/comment-page-1/#comment-4048 Rogue Medic Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:16:12 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=16031#comment-4048 We need to have more future paramedics and future EMTs taking courses like EHS 170 (an evidence based approach to prehospital care). Until then we will continue to have turf wars over skills, rather than effort to figure out what is best for the patient. Unfortunately, uncritical acceptance of all sorts of crazy ideas seems to be much more comfortable for a lot of people. We need to have more future paramedics and future EMTs taking courses like EHS 170 (an evidence based approach to prehospital care). Until then we will continue to have turf wars over skills, rather than effort to figure out what is best for the patient.

Unfortunately, uncritical acceptance of all sorts of crazy ideas seems to be much more comfortable for a lot of people.

]]> By: Rogue Medic http://firegeezer.com/2009/10/12/snapshot-from-the-paramedic-battlefield/comment-page-1/#comment-15746 Rogue Medic Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:16:00 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=16031#comment-15746 We need to have more future paramedics and future EMTs taking courses like EHS 170 (an evidence based approach to prehospital care). Until then we will continue to have turf wars over skills, rather than effort to figure out what is best for the patient. Unfortunately, uncritical acceptance of all sorts of crazy ideas seems to be much more comfortable for a lot of people. We need to have more future paramedics and future EMTs taking courses like EHS 170 (an evidence based approach to prehospital care). Until then we will continue to have turf wars over skills, rather than effort to figure out what is best for the patient.

Unfortunately, uncritical acceptance of all sorts of crazy ideas seems to be much more comfortable for a lot of people.

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