Respect the Dispatch!

Paramedics are a medical profession unlike any other. A call comes in and dispatch sends us on our way with sometimes little more than an address. The information we receive is only as good as what the caller told dispatch, and the amount of time dispatch has to tell us what we are headed to. According to Brad Mooney a supervisor, paramedic, and dispatcher of 27 years, “We can only give you what we get. I would say on a weekly basis we get calls to a child with abdominal pain and show up and there’s someone with a weapon, a domestic assault, or nothing to do with a child or abdominal pain at all. That’s the nature of the beast.” My caution to you is to remember to always be prepared, trust your gut, and don’t blame dispatch!