Originally Posted by
Anthony Herrera
To everyone who thinks a EBI should have a medic on site, they wouldn't be much help besides transporting the person to the hospital anyway. They are not doctors nor do they carry around an X Ray machine. I personally was injured in competition (dislocated hip) and the medic was useless. He drug me off the mat and tried to tell me all I had was a pulled groin.
As a paramedic myself, that's pretty much true, when it comes to orthopaedic injury. And doctors are no different, btw. I can often tell you what is likely to be injured, based on experience, but (as I often tell patients), without an MRI, there's no real proof. Of course, this only applies to closed, soft-tissue injury of this kind; there are, of course, many other potential situations for use of a medic, transport being by far the smallest part of our job.
Bookmarks