Job Satisfaction

Inspired by Nick

It is well known that I have literally no interest in ever studying medicine or nursing. So after reading this I pondered what draws me to ambulance work yet keeps me away from these other professions.

I have concluded it is the challenge. I relish the variety of environments that I work in and know each and every time that bell goes I could be walking into anything. I suspect that being a doctor or a nurse in a hospital or surgery would bore me to tears with the surroundings. Also rather than be managing a medical team and in all honesty sometimes be very distant from patient care when I'm out there it is just me and my crew mate.

While I can understand Nick's drive for clinical independance and the variety working in, for example, an A&E department would bring, nothing to me is going to beat the unique position of being in the middle of a beach at 3 o clock in the morning trying to think of the best way to get a 17 year old girl out of a mangled box of metal whilst my brain slowly freezes.

The satisfaction for me is being that shining ray of hope that first arrives at anything and everything and conquers all the unique challenges of working in the outside world in trying to adapt the skills I have to get somebody to people like Nick in one piece so he can use his skills to work out how to fix whats wrong.

Of course I would welcome anyone to join the medical field as a GP that doesn't have frontal lobe damage. The mere addition of Nick would probably double the average IQ of GPs in England, however I suspect that his calling will be something a bit more emergency related.