The military take some chap off the street and turn them into whatever they want ever
pasptoo - I think you have said it all. Why are there some who feel they are born into the SAR role.....
I agree that perhaps the taxi drivers out there do need a lot of skill in what they are doing, but lets be fair, those of us playing tea bag are not exactly, well not sure of the word but yes we work damn hard, are good at what we do but that is because of the initial training and ongoing training and support of our colleagues.
And what,we then train to become paramedics, Carb do you think we are now the best paramedics and the one's in the NHS are not as good as us?
dream on that what I thought, we are pants at being paramedics we get some bits right, we get some bits wrong, those NHS paramedics train for years to get qualified and are dealing with patients all day every day, how many real jobs do we do every day????????
Training is good, but it is training, if you have the aptitude for it then with support you will be good at it weather you come from the NHS or if you were lucky enough to be born into the RAF SAR force.
And as an an aside, I saw an RAF paramedic recently trying desperately to work out why his nebuliser was not working properly for his patient only to have it pointed out to him that his flow rate was 15lts/min when it should be not more than 6lts/min thus the patient was not getting any benefit what so ever, and we talk about being the best ad no idiots out there????
And I believe CHC have more than one winchman who was a paramedic before joining with no mill back ground and do sterling work no less than ourselfs and may be even better when they feel they have more to prove perhaps?
I certainly would not turn one away if I was in need, Would you? doubt it.
I just don't see why there is such a downward glance on some of these guys, how about support or is it more about fear of losing what we have???????????????
rant over time for tea.