What on earth are you implying? That paramedics should replace traditionally trained doctors (in which case we can close down the medical schools)? That nurse practitioners should be resecting colon cancers or doing hip replacements?
Compliment rather than replace.
Times are changing, and there isn't a lot of room for professions jealously guarding their professional boundaries in a modern health service. It's about what's best for the patient (or population), rather than what's best for the professions.
And the
evidence I've seen suggests that allowing "paramedics" to develop and expand their role benefits patients in terms of access, satisfaction, quality, and perhaps most importantly, health outcomes.
Shouldn't orthopaedic surgeons spend their time doing what they're best at- operating on patients, rather than spending 70% of their time in outpatients?