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Originally Posted by Teacake
Paramedics are familiar with non-medical emergency calls. They are employees of private companies not volunteers. They get the paid the same saving lives or teaching you how to breathe. Im sure Its all in a days work for them. Most ambulance rides are this kind of nonsense.
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In the area where I now live most paramedics are paid but when I was at university almost all the paramedics were volunteers. I have been both volunteer and paid. I wouldn't quite call a panic attack nonsense but it is true that only 10-20% of calls are true emergencies where life is on the line. Until you get to assess the patient you don't know so all calls are taken seriously.
I've been on both sides of the cot. A few years ago I called for an ambulance because I was having difficulty speaking and I was very anxious about that and one of the medics asked me if I had panic attacks. I said, if I do this is my first. My pdoc later put me in-pt and we believe the change in speech was a side effect of temazepam.
It sounds like they did a good job of helping to calm you. That must have been really scary at the time.
