VTemsMANWHORE

When you think that "E.M.S." stands for "Earn Money Sleeping" .... and you do! When on every call you pile more crew in the ambo (bus) than the clowncar at the circus. When you have more lights on your personel vehicle than most airports have on a runway! If you refere' tah "The Big Bad One" as a "BOVINE Incident"....? When receiving dispatch information over the radio and you are told to talk a left at the big oak tree and then a left at the second birch.

How about the need to sustain Para-medicine in rural areas where it is needed maybe(?) the most! Without frequency of calls both #'s and the amount of really sick or critical Pt's can a paramedic get or even maintain his or her skills. To burden the systems even more, the rural populations are paying top coin to maintain the little services that they have. Now how can they afford the increased cost of supporting a paramedic system when most can't even justify it at the intermediate level. the income is simply not there... I know that para-medicine works but what can we do to sustain it in the backwoods. Without funding and with our lack of call volume.... any solutions The funny thing is that all the "Flatlanders" AKA "city-folk" come up here and expect a "PARAMEDIC" if they get hurt... oh well that's what they get for watching to much Rescue 911 or Third Watch Local systems can not afford the cost.. a regional system would make more "cents" but the local small volly squads DON'T want to give up their little areas of control.... Frustrated yes I am ...