EMT Changes Family’s Life After Saving Boy 19 Years Ago

This is a story of a New York paramedic EMT who saved a boy’s life 19 years ago and has been really an important aspect of that family’s life ever since. He has stayed up with what’s going on with that boy’s life, the boy just graduated from college and the paramedic was there to attend his college graduation party 19 years later and that’s exciting. The paramedic inspired the mom to become a nurse and go and get the training necessary to become a nurse.

The impact we have- you can’t really know where it’s going to lead. I think this is an amazing story, I want you to find this and read this story and think about this type of story as it relates to every single patient you have. Even the non critical patients, we have an impact on their lives and on their family’s lives through our professionalism, through our calmed demeanor, through the way that we come in and help them deal with what they think as the worst day of their lives. They’ve called 911 and they want assistance and we can adjust and help with the way that they respond to future interactions with the emergency services system simply because of the way we’ve acted in their time of need and of course we can have a longstanding impact on people’s lives through our interactions and through the ways we might follow up with people in our community who have used our services.

That’s what it’s all about folks, if you’re in this job because it’s just the paycheck, well you can be an okay EMT and an okay paramedic by being a guy who just comes in and gets a paycheck and does a job and leaves. But really, I have to say that if you really want to be a true healthcare provider, you have to look on this as a calling on something that is more than just a job and I hope that you do. I hope that you see through articles like this just the amazing ways we touch people, in ways that no one else outside of this type business and I include paramedics, EMTs, police officers, fire fighters in that category. We just have a way and an opportunity to help people in ways that no one else can and if you haven’t seen that yet, I hope that you will, soon, and that it will have a positive impact on your lives because I think it will make you a better provider by thinking about these types of long-term consequences of everything you do, large and small, in the back of your ambulance.

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This article has been featured in the news segment of the MedicCast podcast episode Lisa Booze with Toxic Syndromes and Episode 229.