16 Quotes by Kevin Hazzard

It's all so new, so foreign, so much like that period of childhood -first or second grade, maybe- when you're old enough to know you're alive and one day will die, yet young enough to still believe that a thin vein of magic runs just beneath the surface. Everything crackles with the electric charge of wonder.

EMS is medicine as modern anthropology.

The essence of EMS is that we know we’ll be back tomorrow, because even from here – surrounded by the hysteria of an unexpected death – we’ll hear a baby coughing in the next room.

But as always, lessons are drawn from mistakes, not victories.

Life is a series of cycles – each nothing but new people, new memories, and eventually, a new ending.

Salvation comes through repetition. This I can do because I have done it before – it’s half prayer, half truth, a whisper in a hurricane of self-doubt.

Invited as we are into their disparate lives, we’ll not only treat them, save them, and pronounce them dead; we’ll also learn from them.

We’re nothing but meat, and if circumstances allow, we’ll end up no different than a possum lying on the roadside.

Disturbing as it may be, the raw truth is that often enough, the people showing up to your medical emergency do so because this was the only respectable job they could get with a GED and a clean driving record.