Let me ask this: where does the term “medic” come from? Sounds foreign, it certainly would not be on the tip of my tongue in an emergency. I’d call for a doctor. Heard them use “medic” in CHOP, too. Canadian? It may be a clue to where these terrorists are coming from.
Oops, should have read thru the thread..... I’m not the only one asking about “medic”.
Heard the term “Medic” used in just about every major war picture battlefield scene. Jeff Hunter in The longest Day had a very effective “Medic!!!” yell. So it is a “thing” in the US military’s arsenal of slang jive.
Probably derived from the French...”Medicine” meaning doctor.
As a former Army Medical Corpsman ( not a “corpse—man” as Obama repeatedly pronounced it), let me say it comes from US military, I was called “medic” 1,000 times, sometimes they called me “doc,” which stroked my ego, but the fact is, our schooling at Fort Sam Houston was only 10 weeks long* back in the day, so think of it as a guy with significantly qextra first aid training, and a bit of experience.
*IIRC correctly, the Medical Corpsman training (91A) has nowadays been expanded to 16 weeks.