Sucks, but not that surprising. I wish people were more educated.

Actually, it depends entirely on the state I live in. I have good short range vision and can read print, so my primary barrier is some areas managing to have specific visual acuity laws for things that don't really need it, ie blind people have had trouble being accepted into medical school to become psychiatrists in the past, and some states bar us from becoming physical or occupational therapists.

If I end up living in a place that has paramedics in the actual er as opposed to only in ambulances, I'd like to do that, because I see well enough to easily dose medication and do IVs. If I don't, my backups are things like phlebotomy, PCT, lift team, etc, because I like hands-on work and don't really want to spend years and years in school.