TheAvatar:Hmmm... except I am an EMT, I work for an EMS service... actually I work for the same EMS service as the people I called arrogant. That's where I earn my living (I don't get paid to be a PSD or a swift water rescuer). I'm not giving out service names. That's the reason I was so angry. It was my off day. I was fully expecting a swift water page to go pull my friends and coworkers out.
Confidence is the nature of the beast. In a true emergency it is the job of the lead provider to turn kayos into order. Often when some one has to step on toes and take the wheel confidence can often seem like arrogance. When many providers, bystanders and police are on the scene of a true emergency they all have jobs and all tend to think that theirs is the most important. This is where After Call Cannibalism (ACC) accurse.
Oh, if there is a paramedic putting him self in harms way that is a clear problem. He or She should know his place and throw an EMT in harms way. They are expendable after all.