comment: >
  
  maybe we should hire folks at better than 13 dollars an hour pay :)
context: Video: Illinois paramedics charged after patient, strapped face-down, dies
  
  Title really burying the lede there >
  
  And the patient >
  
  Hey oh! >
  
  According to the coroner’s autopsy report, Moore died of “compressional and positional asphyxia due to prone facedown restraint on a paramedic transportation cot/stretcher by tightened straps across back and lower body in the setting of lethargy and underlying chronic alcoholism.” >
  
  Jesus Christ… I’m sure it gets tiring to deal with addicts day in, day out, but if you’re at the point of not treating them professionally, with compassion… it’s time to find a new line of work. >
  
  My buddy is EMS in Tacoma. Literally all he does is respond to homeless camps for drug related calls. He's getting out of it soon because he signed up to help people, not deal with violent crackheads 14 hours a day. >
  
  Likely shit pay as well. >
  
  I was mortified when I realized what my EMT buddies were being paid, even with overtime, in Oklahoma. That job was burning them all out because in order to get ahead they absolutely had to work overtime each week. They’ve all switched to much better careers at this point fortunately. 
  What I’m describing above is depressing, but then you think about what exactly they dealt with under these conditions on a day to day basis and it definitely becomes straight up evil that they are so underpaid in my opinion. Dead children, crackheads, grieving family members, morbidly obese and or mentally ill hoarders, Covid exposure during the height of the lockdown, and much much more. Nursing definitely sounds like a career that burns you out too, but I guess atleast their pay keeps you from being absolutely paycheck to paycheck.
  Sorry for the long rant. I think EMTs and Paramedics don’t get as much public appreciation as Fire or Police and they should. >
  
  $9.50 in Florida 🙃
  Entry level county owned not private circa 2016 >
  
  For anyone that didn't read the article, he died of positional asphyxiation. Probably because they strapped him facedown. Also, considering their comments during the whole thing, they probably shouldn't have been paramedics. Being a medical professional requires a lot of patient empathy, and when you're that far gone, you need to find a new career.