TheCapnRedbeard

Cause some people are idiots. I'm an EMT from the Pittsburgh area. A lot of the time when you hear about assaults by patients it's drug related. No one is ever in a good mood after being saved from opiate overdose. I almost got shot on a call because of a guy who overdosed, the medic on scene pushed narcan and the guy came around and decides to go get his gun. Now about family members I don't really know what to tell you. People are insane and they're jerks. Some people don't want medical attention and carry that over to their family with threats of violence. I responded to a call where a man needed to go to the hospital. His son came slammed on his breaks and almost crashed into us. Got out of the car and started flipping out saying his father wasn't going anywhere. He then proceeded to look at me and say, you big mother fucker, you'll be ther first mother fucker." People are just stupid sometimes. We're just doing our job and there are people out there willing to kill is for saving them. I wish we were allowed to carry weapons honestly. People like that respond to nothing but fear of return of force.

Thank you. It can be ridiculous but when you like to help people you gotta do what you gotta do.

The EMS gods as always Will make me suffer lol. Nope every time I have a psych pt they're usually not combative. I am absolutely not implying that things don't happen just because I've never personally had to deal with it. I've heard enough horror stories from calls and I'm thankful I haven't actually had to deal with anything that bad. Believe me I know that some seriously crazy stuff happens out there and I know a lot of people who have dealt with some crazy bs. I wasn't trying to imply anything and if my wording was confusing or for any reason I apologize. I merely meant I've been lucky when it comes to calls. Of course slowly I'm seeing more and more. I have a lot of respect for anyone in the medical field who's ever had to deal with the really gruesome stuff. I've only been an EMT for a little over a year so that may be some reasoning for my lack of experience with crazy calls.

As far as I know no you cannot. I wish you could it would be nice to have a way to defend yourself

That would honestly make me feel a little better. I have a good one I could use and it really would be a handy tool. We can just now carry mace because of rise in incidents. The only way to carry Mace is to get sprayed in the face by it. That sounds horrid. A knife could be useful but at the same time we would get in a lot of trouble if someone had to use it as a weapon. The paperwork would be horrendous. Lol