>> What I love about the job; that I do get to help people that need my help.
The interaction and the learning that I get with like the doctors and the specialty teams
that we work with, learning more than I, you know,
have learned through the process of getting my certification.
And that in like rough situations, you can kind of be a little bit of --
I don't know, help them get through certain situations
when a situation might not be that great.
Like I said, the interaction and the education I get from like the doctors or the nurses
that we work with, learn about different disease processes, things of that nature.
And the learning process of dealing with like a difficult patients;
those are probably the things that I like the most.
And that we deal with a variety of stuff and like I said, we work from --
we do pediatrics, we do adults and we do geriatric patients so the, you know, the --
it's a variety so I get to see a lot.
Challenges are difficult patients, figuring out what might be wrong with them,
what you might need to do to correct the problem.
The -- sometimes the long transports, if you have to go out of state with the patient,
you know, sometimes sitting in the back of an ambulance
for five hours at a time is not that great.
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Oh, and also the downtime so you might be busy for a long time, which is not fun
but then you might not have a patient for five hours as well,
so I'd probably say that's probably two of the things that I don't like at all about the job,
the downtime and then long transports.
So a call that I did recently that's kind of tough or challenges,
I had to transport a 4 month old little girl home
for hospice care because she had a brain tumor.
The doctors tried to do everything they could but the tumor had I guess had, you know,
gotten so big or advanced so much that really there was nothing they could do
and they told the parents that, you know, the best thing right now was to just, you know,
take her home 'cause they can't do anything so that's, you know, that's a little rough
because you're dealing with something like that.
But there's other cases where you're discharging people from hospitals because they have,
you know, they recovered from something, whether it be a broken hip or the cancer's in remission
and they're getting out of the hospital and you get to take them home so that's an upside.
So you get to see both and, you know, it's kind of sad to say but you have to kind of, you know,
look at them as just a patient because you can't let your emotion get involved when you're,
you know, giving treatment or, you know, just accepting the fact
that there's not really anything that modern medicine can do to help them, so.