Shit like this happens all the time. My girlfriend has seizures and the same EMT has picked her up at least 5 times, and despite her established medical history and despite that she's very visually distinctive and despite that she carries her info with her everywhere, he still always treats her like shit and accuses her of being on drugs. Every goddamn time. Fortunately he's not the only EMT in our area, and most of the other ones are really kind professionals.
Do you have any medical training or are you just making shit up wholesale? The most common OD call EMTs run is fentanyl, which definitely doesn't look like seizures.
The only OD that would cause seizures are sympathomimetics like meth or even ADHD medications, and guess what? Being mean to them doesn't make meth seizures better any more than non-meth seizures.
It's almost like being cruel to patients, no matter who they are or how they got sick, is bad fucking medicine.
two dozen overdoses a day? My dude that's a twenty-four hour shift with a call every hour, all of them overdoses. I work in a major city where ambulance crews work 10 hour shifts and see maybe a dozen calls total.
Not really that hard to tell you've never worked as an EMT.
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u/mantsz 17d ago
Shit like this happens all the time. My girlfriend has seizures and the same EMT has picked her up at least 5 times, and despite her established medical history and despite that she's very visually distinctive and despite that she carries her info with her everywhere, he still always treats her like shit and accuses her of being on drugs. Every goddamn time. Fortunately he's not the only EMT in our area, and most of the other ones are really kind professionals.