There is a Difference Where You Train and I Found When You Train... How I've Found EMS Has Changed

I recently completed my 80 hour EMR Emergency Medical Responder training and passed my National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians test to become a Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Responder. 

The training today was certainly different than my training back in 1984. They have had great advances in EMS training, medications and equipment.  I noticed things had changed in EMS but there were also drastic changes in the way emergency departments are ran.

I did much of my EMS training at the emergency room at County Hospital in Los Angels. Ya it was way back in 1984 the Olympics were in town as well as millions of extra people from all over the world and it was a crazy time in EMS. Emergency Medicine was in it's beginning and they were starting to train paramedics across the U.S.

NOTE for General Hospital Watchers
Across the street from the County Hospital in Los Angels was the womans hospital. So the main County Hospital building was know as General Hospital. The big gates you see at the beginning of soap opera General Hospital are the entrance to LA County Hospital Emergency Department...

If you have ever had an interest in emergency medicine and how we got from emergency rooms to emergency departments, from family physicians to emergency medicine physicians, and first aiders to paramedics, County Hospital and what was called C-booth was where emergency medicine was born...... 

It's sad but today emergency medicine is about privacy,

liability, and paper work, and not medicine.... 

Code Black shows you the change from saving lives at the Old County Hospital, to doing paper work at the New County Hospital

One review said: The documentary Code Black is about County Hospital in Los Angeles and the emergency doctors who work there, and the young physicians, physician assistants, and paramedics who train there. It is literally a gut-wrenching portrait of a small square footage of space where we’re told more people have died and been saved than anywhere else in the United States. It’s a 50 by 25 foot section of the County ER called “c-booth.”

As crazy as things got on the popular ER drama, that show doesn’t hold a candle to the insanity that happened at “C-booth,” where the worst trauma cases were taken. The horde of doctors and PA’s and EMT’s that surround a dying man looks like what would happen if you dropped the guy in the middle of a crowded Tokyo train.

If you have Netflix check out Code Black the Documentary 

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