It’s always easy to criticize an EMT or paramedic when they screw up, perceived or actual, in a situation.
It’s not too easy, but still plausible, to criticize someone when your buddy tells you how dumb the EMT or paramedic screwed up on a call.
But when you weren’t on the call, and your buddies weren’t on the call, and you only heard about the call because it was on the news, and you happened to go to the same hospital several hours later, where you heard fourth-party stories of the situation, you should keep your mouth shut.
There is a time and a place to to discuss calls. That time is usually scheduled, and the place is usually in a conference room. That time is certainly not the choosing of a person who wasn’t even aware of the situation until they turned on their car, and that place certainly isn’t the water cooler.
Considering the accuracy of the reporting by most of the Lame Stream Media, we generally have zero basis to discuss any events that might show up in the news. Like our dispatchers, if they get the address correct, I’m impressed.
I agree that the media sensationalizes everything and reports it ad infinitum, and never, ever issues a correction when their accusations and opinions and what passes for reporting is proven wrong.
The case of Richard Jewell, the hero of the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta is a case in point, where he was hounded and hounded and hounded and actually was the man who saved the lives. They found that a different man with a troubling history had done it. He’s now serving life without parole for that and other crimes.
I am always that advocate for waiting, waiting, waiting, until the information is all in before making decisions. It pisses people off sometimew when I say, “I’m withholding judgment until we know what is really going on. We don’t yet.” It pisses them off because they like to pontificate about things because they like to do it, not because they are contributing anything to a meaningful discussion.
Evidence is actually, you know, important.