The Answer You’re Looking For…

…is, it depends.

If you’re really, really sick..I mean like, need an ambulance sick, you may only have minutes to live.

But we EMTs are the ones most qualified to make that determination. We have hours years of training, and we make the determination that a person is really emergent based upon a finely honed assessment process, years of experience, and something we like to call prognostic indicators…

…the first of which basically states that if a patient begins a conversation with the words “I Googled it,” they are unlikely to die any time soon.

And that’s a shame.