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| Emergency Medicine? Imagine yourself | | | | require Paramedic certification and |
| administering and monitoring emergency | | | | continuing education throughout Paramedic |
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| doctors over the radio, and relaying | | | | in Paramedic Schools will find employment in |
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| initiate the dispatch of EMT teams to | | | | depending on geographic location, level of |
| emergency sites. EMT teams and Paramedics | | | | training, and organization. Entry-level |
| arrive at designated scenes and attend to | | | | incomes generally begin around $25,000.If you |
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