Comments on: COT-JOCKEY CONFIDENTIAL: PART ONE http://gomerville.com/2009/10/25/cot-jockey-confidential-part-one/ I am a paramedic who works for an organ procurement organization in the wilds of Kentucky. I am also a husband and a father. Occasionally I fancy myself to be a writer, hence the blog. You are welcome to witness this train wreck but the experience can be disorienting. Don't go swimming for at least thirty minutes. Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Suzib http://gomerville.com/2009/10/25/cot-jockey-confidential-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-918 Suzib Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:20:25 +0000 http://gomerville.com/?p=433#comment-918 I understand your frustration. I started as a volunteer EMT at a service in WV that gave us a very thorough training and had high expectations of us. I went through a few bad services, had a good experience at a government 3rd party, only to have it go into fire service. My first love..er...service became hospital based and is now nothing like the it was. EMS is either completely profit based or is struggling to just keep up with the run volume. A lot of the staff is on their way "some place else", FD, PD, Nursing School, Med School. I am a dinosaur because I have almost 32 years in EMS and many of our "kids" believe it is because I could not go anywhere else - but it is because I did not want another job, I wanted to find the original feelings again. Looking forward to your further posts. I understand your frustration. I started as a volunteer EMT at a service in WV that gave us a very thorough training and had high expectations of us. I went through a few bad services, had a good experience at a government 3rd party, only to have it go into fire service. My first love..er…service became hospital based and is now nothing like the it was. EMS is either completely profit based or is struggling to just keep up with the run volume. A lot of the staff is on their way “some place else”, FD, PD, Nursing School, Med School. I am a dinosaur because I have almost 32 years in EMS and many of our “kids” believe it is because I could not go anywhere else – but it is because I did not want another job, I wanted to find the original feelings again.
Looking forward to your further posts.

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