emergency medical technician

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Particularly: “"Technician" here is unusual: certainly technology is involved in medicine, but everybody from doctor to EMT is using technology. Why are EMT's classed among the technicians? Also, when did this wording arise?”

Noun

emergency medical technician (plural emergency medical technicians) (abbreviated EMT)

  1. (emergency medicine) A basic ambulance worker training in patient stabilization and emergency transport; not a paramedic.
    Synonym: EMT

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