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Originally Posted by bob-loblaw
Interesting you say that, and when I posted that, I completely didn't think of my wife's experience with them.
I haven't had to deal with any, but my wife is an RN who has had to dealt with them for over 30 years. Her experiences have always been negative because they treat everyone else like they are incapable idiots. I asked her again and she said she could probably count good experiences with them on one hand.
A former colleague of mine was a volunteer fireperson in rural Alberta, and she has two sons that are both EMTs. I told her about my wife's experiences and to my shock she totally agreed with her. I think she said they refer to themselves as 'paragods' or something like that.
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Like many things it depends on the EMTs. I've had an ambulance come for both mine or my girlfriends parents on three occasions, and they were literally the nicest people I've ever met in my life. Professional, understanding and efficient.
The one time that they had to come for me, it was for a head injury that I never fully recovered from (nothing horrible, but noticeable to me), and the flashes of memory I have, they were definitely being dicks. On the other hand, when the police took my statement a few days later, they were pretty patient when I couldn't remember my middle name, or how to spell properly.
Back in the day, concussions weren't really taken that seriously!
I'd like to think that the good outweighs the bad in all of these professions, but the bad has just been given the room to exist. And protected.