Mandatory meetings will be scheduled in the middle of your day off.



Hot calls will only come over the air 10 minutes before the end of your shift.



Pens never leak onto old uniform shirts.



To err is human, to forgive is against department policy.



You will find a "EMS discount" one day before payday.



You will remain in perfect health until your days off.



No squad assigned to you will be clean or ever have a full tank… Continue

The First Law of EMS:

All emergency calls will wait until you begin to eat, regardless of the time.



The EMS Law of Gravity:

Any instrument, when dropped, will always come to rest in the least accessible place possible.



The EMS Law of Time and Distance:

The distance of the call from the hospital increases as the time to shift change decreases.



Corollary 1 - The shortest distance between the station and the scene is under construction.



The EMS Rule… Continue

I wish you could know what it is like to search a burning bedroom for trapped children at 3 AM, flames rolling above your head, your palms and knees burning as you crawl, the floor sagging under your weight as the kitchen below you burns.



I wish you could comprehend a wife's horror at 6 in the morning as I check her husband of 40 years for a pulse and find none. I start CPR anyway, hoping to bring him back, knowing intuitively that it is too late, but wanting his…

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It may take you two minutes to read this, but if you do not take the time to read this you are one of the people this post is talking about.

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You stay up for 16 hours



Hes been up for 48 straight

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You take a warm shower to help you wake up.



The rain in the middle of the interstate keeps him awake.

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You complain of a "headache", and call in sick.



He's… Continue