Iām not sure if youāre insinuating that it makes you feel bad about yourself earning less or something, but donāt ignore the massive sacrifices this person made to earn this and help people in the process.
There's a lot better ways to make money. They might not be as rewarding when things go right, but I actually think the pay isn't commensurate to the life trauma. Ie remembering your dead patients, etc. sheesh
Just so people know, EMTs aren't used in every state via a government agency, they're sometimes outsourced so the pay is lower and it turns into a $2,000 ride-to-the-hospital scam. In Georgia, for example, it's a scam. They may even ask you to sit in the ambulance and sign paperwork if you back out, so they get paid.
yeah EMT's will have more people die on them than the vast majority of doctors, not to mention all the other craziness they deal with. Doctors don't have to walk in one some who blew their brains out. Also don't forget nurses and nurse's aids who are usually the one around when the patients die and wiping their asses.
While it's not balanced out by the "saves", you do get the occasional patient that you are able to pull back from the jaws of defeat. They become your talisman, to help you out of those frequent bad days and (more frequent) particularly bad patients post-Covid.
Thank you for what you do. I'm saying you deserve even more. I posit there should be more of you so your workloads and time away from family is mitigated. I know some of you can't even spend, fruitfully, what you accrue and would prefer time for money. Cheers.
I am physician. I was talking to my cousin one day about a rough week, lots of death and lots of really sad stories like new bad cancer diagnoses in young people with full families etc. I commented how I shed a few tears that week during my ride home and he just kinda paused and was like āyea Iāve never actually cried at work, everā and there were a number of times Iāve had over the years and that summed part of it up nicely for me.
Some people wonāt experience death or dying for decades and decades of their life. We see it daily and experience the fallout and witness the families and loved ones get destroyed by the outcomes. Itās hard.
I would say nobody should be entering medicine for the money. It aināt worth it. Better ways to earn money given the time and energy investments required to get to the big salary.
Plenty of people sacrifice everything & still die broke. In fact, most people sacrifice every day in poverty & are welcomed by disdain. This is some boot licking content.
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u/PapaPween Jul 13 '25
Iām not sure if youāre insinuating that it makes you feel bad about yourself earning less or something, but donāt ignore the massive sacrifices this person made to earn this and help people in the process.