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Well, yeah OK I'm still new and still pretty crappy, so I spend a lot of time as a medic healing people up and begging people to grab my kit and heal me up. And when they won't, and when they won't protect me when I'm healing them, and when they won't co-ordinate anything so I can get back to them, I just spend most of the game on my own trying to catch up, getting shot on the way. So I can't heal my squad, and I'm like... the guy in the squad who can't get healed. This is why it's kind of hard to get anyone to volunteer to be a medic.

Trekkie wrote:Well, yeah OK I'm still new and still pretty crappy, so I spend a lot of time as a medic healing people up and begging people to grab my kit and heal me up.

If your squad is >5 people, you should have two medics... if you don't, point that out to the SL. If he doesn't acknowledge it or something, just select rifleman the next time you die and let the squad go without a medic for a while.

Trekkie wrote: And when they won't, and when they won't protect me when I'm healing them, and when they won't co-ordinate anything so I can get back to them,

There are two things you have to remember:

1. This is the internet, very few people are doing interested in doing anything that doesn't directly benefit them
2. If you don't speak up, people won't care about what you have to say.

For example when I revive people and I see them being useless, or I see the other guys just watching me heal, I say on local "Hey cover south, stop looking at me unless you all wanna die to a single guy" and that usually fixes that issue.

If your squad are moving out without you, tell them to hold on because you're not done yet. If they don't listen, just stop healing the current guy and move out, and hopefully if he's in your squad, he'll do all the bitching for you.

Also as a long term squad leader, I don't bother asking who wants to be medic... there's no volunteering, I just assign it to people and kick them from the squad if they don't spawn in with it.

Due to the (fairly) recent jump to 8 players per squad infantry (not FOB or mortar) squads should have two medics so that medics can heal each other, yes. Psyrus' suggestion was great -- simply stop playing medic if your squad refuses to protect you like a valuable asset to the squad that you are (you literally stop ticket drain from happening, this is one of the most important parts of blufor on INS and AAS) or they refuse to take up another medic to heal you as well. Playing medic is a niche role in some ways, but it's good for new players in my opinion because you don't have to have practiced shooting skills 100% of the time or be good with utilities like LAT or HAT launchers.

Playing Medic only for 3-4 years, you find your own ways how to get yourself back in action - dead enemies, dead friendlies, ammo, everything.

Also, if no one wants to patch you up from squad, leave the squad, do something else.

Thanks for the awesome tips, guys. I basically have to learn how and when to speak up for myself. But first I have to learn how not to get mad about it. It's hard when you just spent a bunch of time doing crazy stuff to revive people, and then it seems like they won't even cross the street to do the same, or if it involves smoke then somehow that's too much trouble, or it's my job to risk my life for them, and then I'm the only one in the squad who's expected NOT to ask for medical attention when I go down, because I'm the medic? It makes a certain kind of sense: anyone else expects to go their whole game without doing anything medical except getting healed. Maybe I'll be less hesitant to be rude and point that out to my squadmates, like, "no dude I'm not healing you, you're the one who left me behind, rot in the ditch for all I care" because that's how I feel about it.

Just takes awhile to find out you're in a squad that demands medics and then treats them like shit... but yeah, next time I'm in one, I'll just leave. The thing is, sometimes it seems like there's nothing else to do. But I'll find something. I like doing supply but if you do surface supply, just seems like that's not OK or something. Get ignored so much I can't even tell whether anyone can hear me. The other thing I can do about it is squad lead, and set up a squad where the medic actually does get the support they need. And hey, sometimes it works out real well.