Newb EMTs, the general public, and students all tend to think that EMS is all excitement and life-saving. It's not. It's disappointingly mostly sick people you can't do much for (under the paramedic level), and idiotic people who aren't actually experiencing an emergency. I think it was my new teacher who said you'd go on one cardiac arrest a week working full-time. I don't know if he meant actual full-time (40 hours/week), or EMS full-time (60+hours/week). Still, that's 4 people a month!
Worth it? I'm talking drunks, violent people off their psych meds, buckets of throwup, hysterical people, angry people, bossy people, and lots and LOTS of feces.
Question of the century.
Question of the century.
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