Re: Higher pay with LIC-P.

[Guest guest]

I regret that you see it this way. As I tried to say, nothing about the

license should in any way be demeaning to those who have given their souls to

EMS at whatever level.

I'm trying to look at the future of our profession and to address the problems

in recognition and pay that we''ve always had.

That said, I still must defend education. I have had legal secretaries that

knew more about deeds and real estate transfers than I ever will. But

because, for whatever reason, they did not go to law school they are not

lawyers, don't get to practice law, nor do they get the pay that lawyers do.

Life is sometimes unfair, and there probably should be at lease a BS degree

for just being a mother to four children. But there's not.

Does education help one be a better medic? Perhaps. Does it help one to run

a better code? Possibly. That doesn't mean that individual EMT-Ps can't run

codes as well or better than anybody else, and we all know EMTs who never went

on to get their paramedic who know just as much about it and we might even

trust them more. But they're NOT paramedics and can't practice as such.

Folks, we're experiencing the labor pains of going from a vocation to a

profession, and with that must come change. In the long run, licensure will

benefit us all.

Gene Gandy, JD, EMT-P

Not yet licensed

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