ambodriver

So because somebody just fell of the paramedic turnip truck, it's their "right" to practice ALS in someone else's system?

What you should have been doing already- take them to the hospital. Maybe you can meet up with ALS on the way, maybe not.

LOL, what if you had someone choking and the particle wasn't removed by thrusts. You really needed the Mcgill's. That 5-10 more minutes transporting could mean life or death. Or how about that bad allergic rx I know we have all seen.

I'm not knocking Boston I hear it's great it's just weird that I would have to g back to BLS if hired by them even though I have years of experience in a bigger city doing urban ALS.

This is no way to knock Boston EMS, cheers to you guys.

so even if I am a paramedic if I get hired by boston ems I have to work as a basic?

then after one year i *might* be promoted to paramedic?

Would the paramedic then have to retake the paramedic classes?

Man, that's crazy!

I could not see wasting my time working as a basic with a NREMT-P license hoping for a chance to become a paramedic all over again. Seems to be you have to start you EMS career with Boston as an EMT-B for this to make any kind of sense.

How crazy would it be if you were a paramedic working on a Boston BLS rig, and you had a patient that needed some ALS skill/drug to save them but you couldn't do it?

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