AnyOtherMedic

  1. True Dat, you caught me, one day I will move out of my moms place and maybe I will grow up and be as big boy like you. There are additional ALS resources in EC and There is accountability, the company investigated, the providing hospital investigated, the state is investigating and the city is in the midst of it so how do you feel there is no accountability? If there everyone was a perfect as you then there would not be phrases like due regard, review board, malpractice or conflict of interest. But you would not know that since you are living in the land of dreams. Contrary to your opinion of me, the fact remains you are trying to turn this into something more than a dumb move on the part of a medic on a call.
    June 18, 2012 11:50 pm on Private medic suspended for 'protocol deviation' in East Chicago
  2. Oh really, this is a bigger issue than someone stepping beyond their scope of practice? That is exactly the issue and that is why this kind of debate gets going. DO NO confuse the story here with your not so hidden agenda of making this a company-wide problem. He screwed up, did more than he was supposed to and got busted. There are always ALS rigs on the street and they are staged all over Lake County, you know so much about Prompt then you should know that as well. Please bring a copy of the contract to the debate here and tell me at what point did the contract state that there would always be an ALS rig in EC to cover everything that happens after the first two rigs are on EC calls? When it was EC EMS how often were there delayed responses by an ALS rig to cover every call. What you are throwing out as "A bigger problem here" is a ludicrous attempt to blame the company and the other employees. Call up some local FD that still provide EMS and ask them how often they have a delayed response because they do not have enough rigs on the road. You know the answer will be more than they care to admit. Budgets are tight, tax collections are low, taxpayers don't want to pay any more in taxes for the same service so something has to give. Question, do you take one of the two EC ALS rig off the road to save on budgets? How well would that have gone over with the local community, can you imagine hearing this on the other end of the phone when you dial 911 "sorry the only other rig in town is on a call, please call back later". I have worked for FD, I have worked for other privates and the fact is that when all of the ALS rigs are assigned calls, you are going to get a BLS crew and guess what, that BLS crew will provide care and transport you to the hospital, it's what we do. Every local provider, EMS, FD, hospital and private is running with a certain level of staffing, like it or not, even the taxpayer funded providers can't do it all, they cannot respond to every call immediately, it is not possible. Be honest and just say that the issue is not this goobers mistake and say that you are ticked the contract did not stay with EC EMS and lets talk about that.
    June 18, 2012 8:20 am on Private medic suspended for 'protocol deviation' in East Chicago
  3. FYI, a review board is not anything new. All over this country and probably the world there are review boards, there are corporate boards of directors and there are oversight panels all specifically designed to watch over people doing their jobs to hopefully catch acts of indescretion, theft or plain stupidity. If everyone was so perfect we would not need police, military, judges, lawyers or (my fav) politicians to watch over us.

    People make mistakes all the time, everyday and rightly so a group of medically trained peers are there to review this kind of behavior. There is a 21 page list of providers for the state of Indiana. I am taking a wild guess that there are several thousand (4000+) EMTs licensed to provide care to the public in the state. I am also going to take a stab and say that of them 99% or more practice within the law and do so WITH complete due regard for the safety and well being of their patient. As in all fields, sometimes you will end up with someone that oversteps their boundaries. A person, not the company and not the other employees that work there. The medic and the paramedic both will go thru reviews and will have to justify their actions and may very well lose their state certification but to blatantly say that the actions of a few individuals makes every employee a piece of trash and the entire company worthless is sheer stupidity. Yes I happen to work for Prompt and yes I happen to love the work I do providing patient care for the public. The actions of a very small percentage of the company does not mean that I share in their failure to follow the protocols. Nor does this make me an inferior medic. It means that they have screwed up and they will face the board and be dealt with accordingly. East Chicago opted to privatize their EMS, Prompt won the bid. I did not once see Prompt driving around with signs and banners asking the public to "vote for me" to win this contract. The city put it out there and the board voted on this to happen. The fallout of privatization is never pretty and the employees of the private company take the flack for the change. I for one will stand in the gap and say that we provide 911 service and we do it to the best of our ability and sometimes we mess up. When was the last time you were perfect? Good day!
    June 17, 2012 11:38 pm on Private medic suspended for 'protocol deviation' in East Chicago
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