16 Quotes by Kevin Hazzard

Counted among those killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001, were forty-three paramedics and EMTs. Godspeed.

Medicine’s great magic trick is how it convinces us we’re here saving lives when more often what we’re doing is witnessing death.

Medics don’t have to be heroic or tough or even good people. They simply have to enjoy the madness.

Death cracks inside jokes that only we emergency workers – with our practical knowledge of the postmortem human – will ever laugh at. I.

How bittersweet it is to have found what we’ve been looking for, only for it to be dead on arrival.

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.

Dogs are loyal, humans are a pain in the ass.