I’ve come to understand we have a cultural view of death as the worst-case scenario. Anyone dealing directly with death and dying knows...

It’s the end of my internship in medic school and I get a call for a gunshot victim. Sheriff’s officers are on scene. We get there at the...

I started out 2019 working as an EMT on the ambulance in town.  I had a really hard time getting along with my partner, so when I...

It’s 2019. I started off the beginning of the year working as an EMT on an ambulance, then I switched to working at a COVID testing site...

I’m hugging the wall in the hall of the ER with a patient on the gurney with several other crews.  It’s pouring rain outside.  We haven’t...

We get a call to a trailer park.  In the trailer, we find a woman who is reporting a headache and saying she can’t take it any longer,...

We get a call for an “unknown medical, sheriff’s on scene” at the beach. The sun has gone down. A drowning, an overdose, or a trauma is...

We get a call to a sober living house for an overdose. This is a very common call, but I’m still new to this area and it’s my first time...

I went to medic school the fall after I graduated nursing school. Hated nursing school. Hated it. I am fascinated with physiology and...

Law enforcement is explaining to me that this guy is being arrested for public intoxication as his partner and the EMT I am working with...

My first job on an ambulance is for a small company who only does 911 response in my tiny town. I love it. My partner and I don’t have...