Re: Proposed New Paramedic Curriculum

[Guest guest]

Did you know that, in the time of the Roman empire, physicians were way low

on the food chain? Most were slaves. The relatively few freedmen of that

profession took to themselves the Greek title of Doktor, (I think that is

how it was spelled) which title normally was awarded to those who'd achieved

mastery in various areas of learning, to attempt to elevate their status in

society. It seems that only in the last 500 years have they got anywhere.

Its taken the nursing profession a long time relative to one person's

lifetime, but a fraction of the time it took doctors. If we could clean up

our act and come together, we could be there in a relatively short number of

years. If...

Don't what that's appropro of, but its late on Friday and I'm getting

punchy.

Dave

[texasems-L] Re: Proposed New Paramedic Curriculum

> If physicians could go to school part time for a year or less and get

> licensed, there'd be more of them too. In most professions, pay is

> commensurate with education, in most cases. We don't have much

> education, let's face it. So we don't get much pay. As professions

> get more mature, they get more rules for their conduct, appearence, etc

> (and most rules are unwritten, but they are there), and they require

> more education to enter the professions. Physicians have been there

> 100 years ago, and nurses, dentists, accountants, and more recently

> computer types (in the 60's, no education was ok, the employer would

> train you. Then trade schools were the norm. Now, very few major

> employers will hire a programmer without a 4-year degree).

>

> If we want more, we've got to do more. As I tell classes all the time:

>

> IWSYABG

> YGDSYABD

>

>

> Which means:

>

> IF YOU WANT SOMETHIN' YOU AIN'T BEEN GETTIN'

> YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHIN' YOU AIN'T BEEN DOIN'

>

> cause in every way in life, what you've done up to now has gotten you

> where you are. So you want to be somewhere else? You have to DO

> something else!

>

> =Steve =

>

> asystole2-@... wrote:

> original article:/group//?start=11485

> > Jessie,

> >

> > Your quote at the end of one of your statements says it all " It

> has been

> > my experience that what most people get, is pretty much in proportion

> with

> > what they put in " .

> > You could not have made a better point for raising hours of

> paramedic

> > classes.

> > Most paramedics I talk to think thay should be paid as much as say a

> nurse.

> > Well then they should be prepared to go to school as long as a nurse

> does.

> >

> > As far as having a paramedic shortage. You might have one in your

> area,

> > but in east texas they are everywhere. Your point is very well taken

> about

> > areas not able to pay medics, but they will wish they paid for higher

> levels

> > of EMS care when it is their loved one that needs help.

> >

> > Lastly, I did not mean to single Jessie out and it is in no way

> an attack

> > on him.

> > He just happened to give a perfect quote to show my point.

>

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