Being a Remote Site Medic

[Guest guest]

With all the talk about the scope of practice and losing your

Licensees, ask your self is it worth the risk?

We as Remote Site Medics work out side our scope of practices every

day, we prescribe RX we lance and pack boils and sutures Pt on day

to day bases some more than others. Our job is to keep the men and

women in our care on the job and minimize the coast to the client

for flying out every sick person of anyone with a minor injury. As

far a legal goes, take any run sheet you have now and sit down with

a good lawyer and have him critique it for you. He will have you

cringing in the corner sucking your thumb and mumbling mommy. If

they want you they will get you. From what I've read so far there is

a need for standardization in the GOM. I've been offered jobs there

and when I ask what the formulary was I'm told Tylenol and band-aids

anything else will be flown out. It comes down to you and what

you're welling to do until a stander is set. Stay on a truck back

home and haul geriatric Pt around from the cabbage patch to the Dr

Office and back to the cabbage patch, or do something you can tell

your grandkids about. I came to Iraq 30 months ago and have done

things I would be put in jail for back home plus had my Licensees

pulled. But it's what I live for and am making a living at it. So

what about you? Do you lay awake at night worrying about your

licensees, or what new situation you may see tomorrow? If anyone

want's your licensees they will get it regardless of your skills or

toys, we are expected to make chicken salad out of chicken crap

every day, it's an acquired taste that simple isn't for the faint of

Hart.

Regards, Andy