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Dr Know-it-all

I am a Media student but not just any media student, I'm a media student with an interest for medicine and I have volunteered in ambulances for over 2 years. By doing this I have seen how paramedics work extremely hard and perform wonders. However, I also have a fair share of friends studying medicine which usually leads to discussions regarding medical care and the differences from working in an ambulance and working in a hospital. Usually I'm met with an interest but sometimes I meet doctors or medicine students believing they are much better than paramedics. This annoys me. A lot. Recently I heard the argument that there should be a doctor in the ambulance to decide if the person actually needs to go to the hospital or not and according to the person who made this argument paramedics are not educated enough to do that because they only study 3 years. The reason why this annoyed me was not because I have friends that are paramedics, it annoyed me because this person had never