Re: [NEMSMA List Serv] Re: Hiring in the DFW area

[Guest guest]

My lab assistant, a graduate of the paramedic class before this, is a

full-time firefighter/paramedic. He's also a chiropractor.

GG

>

>

>

> Not that long ago, I had a flight paramedic call me. He was concerned

> about

> safety (and pay) and had recently raised a safety issue with his provider.

> The manager told him that he had a ¢®thick file¢® of paramedic

applications

> in

> his desk and he could hire another paramedic in a heartbeat (and many

> would

> volunteer). Pilots, he was told, are hard to find. So, if this paramedic

> really wanted his job, he would ¢®suck it up¢® and do the work and

not

> complain. I never heard what ultimately happened. The same thing occurs on

> the ground side. As long as Bill and Ted¢®s paramedic school are

cranking

> out

> hundreds of paramedics and supply is prevalent, most of these issues will

> persist.

>

> Just look at the chiropractors. The chiropractor schools started

> graduating

> three classes a year in a 3 year program. Medical schools graduate once a

> year from a 4 year program. The market is now flooded with chiropractors.

> Their pay is poor generally. A significant portion of their graduating

> classes NEVER practice chiropractic and they have, by far, the highest

> student default rate of all health care professions. We should look at

> them

> and learn in EMS.

>

> On 6/11/09 9:54 AM, " rob.davis@... "

> rob.davis@...> wrote:

>

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > On Thursday, June 11, 2009 09:28, " Joby Berkley " joby@...

> > > said:

> >

> >> > Good thing the city of Arlington doesnt do this to there FD or they

> would

> >> be outta

> >> > here.

> >

> > Maybe, but they'd be replaced the same day by the thousands of people in

> the

> > Metroplex who would love to have that job, even under those conditions.

> > Again, more than half the firemen in the country do it for free. Those

> guys

> > in Arlington are not even close to irreplaceable.

> >

> > Rob

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >>

>

>