Author: ordinaryemt
I'm a female EMT for a 911 service provider that serves in Southern California. I have a BA in Sociology with an emphasis in Social Inequality, hoping that I can work with underprivileged communities in the healthcare field.
Being an EMT has been a great learning experience for me as I pursue a higher education, either PA school or nursing. I've seen some pretty cool things like childbirth as well as unfortunate tragedies happen to people. It's our ordinary day to see a life leave someone's body and we move on with our days because the next call needs us.
I used to be pretty embarrassed and didn't tell people that I'm an EMT; afterall we're underpaid "ambulance drivers" *yikes pet peeve* that's basically a 911 medical Uber driver and professional bandage applier. All jokes aside, I started to realize how much impact we have on patients as they experience one of their lowest points in their lives, and hey it's kind of cool to be able to drive with lights and sirens driving on the wrong side of the road, having road rage and hearing all the chaos happen in the ambulance.
This blog is dedicated to what I'm most passionate about; social outreach to the underprivileged communities. As an EMT we run MANY calls on suicide attempts, homeless drunks, drug OD, mental health crisis and ETOH (drunkssss). We run many of these calls on autopilot because they're so frequent but I want to stop for a second to discuss about these calls because these are preventable issues with a little more push in social outreach programs and compassion in health care politics.
So if you want some insight from a wanna be sociologist going into the medical field, sit tight on your toilet seat for a few more minutes and read my posts :)
**Disclaimer** The call details discussed have been slightly changed for HIPPA regulations. Age, gender, location may have been adjusted to keep privacy of patient.
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