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H.I. #85: Another Person I've Never Heard Of

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CGP Grey

Education

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 117 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, here we go. It's showtime.

0:04.0

In kind of the feedback section, I think two things have been burning a hole in my inbox

0:09.6

and crashing the service at Reddit.

0:11.6

Oh, yeah.

0:12.6

And the first of those would be the continuing discussion about our use of the term ambulance drivers

0:18.4

for people who drive ambulances, whether they're paramedics, whether they're ambulance drivers.

0:22.6

There were two things I've now learned, and it's not really going to placate anyone.

0:26.8

The first is, I now have a better understanding as to why paramedics were so upset by me describing

0:32.8

someone who drives an ambulance as an ambulance driver.

0:35.8

And that is, I think people in like the medical community, like certain doctors or surgeons

0:41.4

or people who think they're too cool for school, use the term ambulance drivers as an insult

0:47.4

for paramedics.

0:48.4

Hmm.

0:49.4

It's like a way of belittling them.

0:51.2

It's like a nickname they give them to upset them.

0:53.4

So it's like a deliberate wind up.

0:55.0

Ah, okay.

0:56.4

So saying, ah, look, here come the ambulance drivers is what you say when the paramedics

1:00.7

walk in the room.

1:01.7

So I can see why that would be upsetting.

1:03.8

On the other hand, we've had a lot of feedback from people all around the world talking about

1:08.9

various jurisdictions in which there are bespoke ambulance drivers.

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