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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:18:33 EDT
Subject: EMT pay low

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In considering local standby etc., we want the least expensive and most  
willing medical people who can do the job. This article says EMT's are  

surprisingly low-paid, averaging just $11.41 and hour and some working for under
$9 an hour. For this they run risks driving in a high speed ambulance and 
moving  400 lb. patients down stairs etc. Thus they should be happy, for about 
$10 an  hour, to sit beside a dying person and move him to an ice bath 
quickly when he  is declared.  It's far less taxing than their usual work. And 
if they can  declare him or expedite that, so much the better.  At these 
rates we can  also afford to do several days of training.
 
I have not discussed local standby for a while, because ongoing research  
should soon tell us whether local washout is needed or not, and without 
knowing  that it's hard to say what should be done and how. But this is an 
interesting  piece of data.
 
Alan Mole


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