Day 7
After working as a Medical Assistant for 9 months, I am finally going back to being an EMT full-time.
Medical Assistants are like entry-level nurses who straddle two fields. We do healthcare tasks but also administrative work.
While I have worked for the hospital, I have worked in primary care, gynecology, pulmonary cardiology, and venous surgery.
I was what is known as the float team and, as such, bounced around to wherever my skills were needed. One day, I would be assisting a cardiologist doing stress tests exams, ekgs and patient triage education and intake the next day I might be working at the front desk registering people with the hospital and confirming their insurance and address is up to date.
The fact I am also an EMT also came in handy on occasion when I was in the clinic outpatient offices. Sometimes there would be emergencies and often my skill set helped me stabilize the incident and get the patient properly transferred to 911.
Believe it or not, the majority of doctors have no clue what to do when a patient starts having an intense emergency in your standard medical office.
I will never forget this one patient who came in because of a cut and when the doctor asked them to take the bandage off to show them, the patient actually ripped open a wound and they started bleeding profusely everywhere and the doctor ran out the room screaming for help, overwhelmed by the sight of blood everywhere.
As an EMT it was like, yeah, they, are bleeding a lot and, what's the panic? We can stabilize that and get me to a hospital easy peasy.
The issue was I left the float team to work for one doctor specifically and he was just an unbelievable prick.
At first he was nice and friendly, but it didn't take long for him to text me away from work and literally burry me burrying work almost everyday and more then a few times he mocked me because he would be leaving work every day, but I had to stay and finish up paperwork. When I tried to tell him that his behavior was unacceptable, he stated if I like the job I had better take it.
An example of how difficult working with him is the person they hired to replace me covered for me for two days and she quit! After only two days, she got to the point which took me three months to reach. I find it hilarious.
This is proof I am more masochist than I thought.
A hidden truth of the medical field is Dr's often get to be prima donnas. Kinda like Dr House, sorta psycho doctors are a real thing I worked for one, and as a float, I covered for many. Since those doctors can't keep people. The fact is there is a healthcare shortage in this country, so as long as you have a license places are happy to have you.
Someone will hire any doctor since they generate revenue. Ma's nurses and support staff all support the doctors as such we serve at the pleasure of the doctors.
Thus, even the most outrageous behavior from doctors is condoned, Since what are you gonna do? fire the doctors and lose all that revenue they generate? Most places won't even talk to them about there behavior.
Thus, nurses and Ma's have to put up with untouchable near bullet-proof doctors.
I have had doctors tell me to my face how do I know I'm a lesbian. If I never had sex with a strong man have maybe I am just biased.
I had other doctors out there tell me ADHD is bullshit it's just a way for drug addicts to score some insurance money for legal amphetamines.
I had a doctor kick me on the ground and tell me I was full of shit when I had a PTSD flashback and was in a panic because someone sneaked up and grabbed me.
So I am glad to be going back to EMT work full time. The team work fair treatment and supportive environment is awesome. Not to mention being seen as a hero is a welcome change of pace from being treated like a roach.
Now mind you, it wasn't every doctor, but in my experience it was more than 50 %