Rachel Morey

This show is 100% tone deaf. EMS in NOLA is abused. The show producers have the power and the voice to change that, but they choose not to. I'm not going back until the folks that run that town get it together. It's Not Safe for Anyone Right Now. The people out there doing the hardest work deserve SO MUCH MORE. July 20, 2021 New Orleans Redditers, I am a paramedic working for the City of New Orleans. The state of affairs with New Orleans Emergency Medical Services is in shambles. No one is talking about this. We are in a true labor crisis and the city has abandoned us, and its citizens. We answer over 60,000 calls for service per year. In the past several months it is not uncommon to have 6-7 ambulances covering the entire city at night. The sick and dying are waiting for ambulances that may not arrive for hours. Our staffing and budget is a fraction of NOPD. Our hourly wages have stagnated. We are attacked, spit on, and threatened on a daily basis and receive no hazard compensation. Not an extra cent was seen for showing up throughout the entire COVID pandemic. We often have to lie and say we are using the bathroom so we can eat. When we arrive at your residence or at the location of an emergency we are questioned as to why we took so long. We more than likely just cleared from the hospital to respond to the next call with no time in between. Or we responded all the way to the East from Algiers. Call volume is at an all time high. It is not uncommon to have 10-15 911 calls holding, with no available units to respond at any given time. Meanwhile a TV show is being produced about how successful our service is. A TV show which provides no funding to our public services. The system is collapsing and the work load is unsustainable. Co workers are riddled with mental health concerns. Things are difficult for us all in the present climate. A good job is hard to come by. The workers and the patients they encounter deserve better. What will it take for things to change? Can we have our pleas heard for the citizens of this city to understand? Anyone with connections to news media outlets please reach out. For their sake and ours. We all deserve better. With love, Nola medic