{"id":2299,"date":"2014-11-25T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:32:20","slug":"thankful-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/thankful-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"THANKFUL FOR WHAT ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"4\" face=\"Times New Roman\">Well that all depends on which side of the provider \/ patient relationship you have found yourself this past year.&#160; For the almost 40,000 patients, their families, and friends the answer is the system.&#160; How fortunate they were that dialing three digits would bring them a small army of trained professional EMS providers in a matter of minutes. The public doesn&#8217;t often think about us,&#160; until they are having a very bad day!&#160; Yet as unsung hero&#8217;s, we stay ready to provide a service our healthcare partners can not provide.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"4\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"4\" face=\"Times New Roman\">For those of us on this side of the relationship we need to be thankful for our calling. How many professionals take their responsibilities as seriously as EMS providers?&#160; How many other professionals put as much time, effort, and training for little or no pay?&#160; Being in EMS is a calling and we need to be thankful for having the ability to meet this challenge.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"4\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"4\" face=\"Times New Roman\">On behalf of the Midstate Program Agency, and EMS Education Dept. have a great Thanksgiving day with your family and friends.&#160; If your working the day then be thankful for your family and friends that support you. <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font size=\"4\" face=\"Times New Roman\">Stay safe and God Bless<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that all depends on which side of the provider \/ patient relationship you have found yourself this past year.&#160; For the almost 40,000 patients, their families, and friends the answer is the system.&#160; How fortunate they were that dialing three digits would bring them a small army of trained professional EMS providers in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midstateems.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}