Tee,
You ever try to push a string?
Pulling one is easy....pushing one is impossible.
There are a great many people in the GOM and within EMS operations that see ways to improve the situation however they do not seem to be in a position to effect that change. Until they are, using venues such as this to discuss those ideas works to forward those ideas. As we have seen demonstrated very recently, senior managers attend these boards even if only as readers thus they are aware of the comments being made. It is not beyond the imagination of man to think some positive result will be a byproduct of that interchange.
What you call gripeing might just be the very thing that gets a point across to someone that is pulling that string and if so....good things might happen. The folks that can make things happen need to hear and listen to those that are out there doing the job.
Ask your self this question.....Would you be content to maintain the status quo if you knew your company was going to have a fatal accident each year without fail? Some of the EMS outfits are having more than that each year....can one become so immune to this that it becomes a way of doing business?
Sorry....I will continue my gripeing as you call it. It is the Cowboy in me that Beefer doesn't like that makes me do this you see.