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?”

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

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

emergency medical technician

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