What's up with the RN vs Paramedic hate?

[ErikWeeWoo]

I've been active in EMS for 8 years and have been active as an RN for 6 years. I don't understand where all the tension between RNs and Paramedics comes from. It's very much so two different specialties, but there's significant overlap. 

It seems like when I'm working ED, paramedics (especially outside the EMS agency I work for) seem to like to cop an extremely unnecessary attitude. When I'm on the ambulance, it seems like RNs (especially in other hospitals aside from the ED I work in) always do the exact same.

It's to the level that I get treated completely differently based only on what badge buddy I wear. 

I have very little issue with anyone that I've actually worked with. I avoid drama, am relatively well liked among my coworkers. Transfer of care is a pain in the rear for everybody regardless of whom to whom, but what's with all of the drama? Does anyone else relate?

[MTRN]

I've been in Trauma for many years and have seen a lot of the bad blood btwn RNs and Paramedics. I handle it like this. If there is an accident etc and no ambulance is there I step in, when they arrive I step out...that is their turf...but if they come into my ER...well then...it's MY turf....When we understand each other..... we then play nice

[CommunityRNBSN, BSN, RN]

I definitely wouldn’t call it “hate.”  But my FQHC calls ambulances fairly often, and sometimes we get a little attitude from them.  Generally, it’s because the patient really is stable, so they aren’t exciting cases. I feel like the EMTs sort of do an internal eye-roll when we call them because somebody is perfectly fine but hypotensive or whatever. But in general, they seem to understand that we are all just doing our business, and we are all on the same team.