Patricia Shumate
Never stop learning. Someone can always teach you how to do it better...faster...

Jacob Alan Malott
"Sometimes the fear does not subside and we must do it afraid."

Bentlee Lawson
Medicina bona locis malis (Latin)—Good medicine in bad places.
Be prepared mentally, physically, and emotionally to provide good medicine in bad places.
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanent. So practice how you want to perform.

Allen Gravely
Have a sense of urgency when needed. Recognize your victim’s time limit. Sometimes it’s better to scoop and swoop than to try to manage something that cannot be managed in the field. Penetration + cardiac arrest always = death.

Paul Monarski
EMS, the last three letters of "problems"!

John Land
“Don’t sweat petty things; and don’t pet sweaty things “

Rob Cooke
In medicine you don’t rise to the occasion. You fall to the level of your training.

Rodney N. Ray
It ain’t your emergency.

Kathy Klein Wells
Never let em’ see you sweat!

Scot Phelps
“Ambulance work is like circus work, it gets in your blood. Here you see life, and sometimes brother, it's sliced right down the middle.”- They Race Death Every Night, Saturday Evening Post, 1953

Sierra Stamer
"If you're scared then do it scared, one day you'll find that you aren’t scared anymore."

Roger Walker
When you’re waist deep in the shit, and the entire scene is going to hell, you've got your partner and your partner has you. And that’s enough.

Anthony Chiodini
I wish I could tell you that you’re gonna take healthcare by storm but even though you may be doing what you’re supposed to do according to God‘s plan it still does not mean it’s gonna be fairytales. You must never quit and know that you have thousands of brothers and sisters.

Loree Payne Roberts
In a death and dying situation, “the family becomes the patient “

Carrie Marie Adams
Right is right, wrong is wrong. Even when no one is watching.

Cody Zehnder
People are going to die, it’s the facts of life but it is your job to do everything you can to the best of your knowledge and abilities to try and prevent that. Give it your all and leave it all out in the box, and at the end of the day you’ll come out on top!

Bill Van Gils
Ask questions!! And make your decisions based on what’s best for the patient.

Heather Carney
Listen. Listen to your patient. Listen to what’s going on around you. Listen to your gut.

Robert Winder
You’re doing amazing. Not everyone can walk into a scene, smell that smell, and still say, “Yep… I’m the responsible adult here.

Stacey Ratcliff Thomas
From a medical director...... we're here to stop the emergency

Anthony Correia
Patients are people first. Treat them with dignity, understanding and respect.

Kathleen Kieser
Learn everything from the books to pass the test. Put it in your back pocket and learn the job

Matt Holtmann
Treat every call like a chess game and play 3 moves ahead mentally

Kate Hawkins Lyons
You can be brave, and afraid at the same time. If you're not afraid you don't have a healthy respect for what you are doing.

James Pearson
It's an emergency, but it's not your emergency. People are expecting you to be the professional who calms a chaotic situation, act like it.

Justin Holton
It’s not your emergency. Take your time and do a proper assessment.

Steven Kolb
Remember, no matter how bad of a day you're having, someone somewhere is responding to a car vs. manure spreader MVA . . . "caller reports everyone is covered in cow poop".

Barry Bledsoe
If you lose one don't worry. They make more!

Elizabeth Lynn
Take a breath. This is NOT your emergency; this is not happening to you. Stay calm.

Ray Saviciunas
Tell the truth. You will see bad things, and you will have the privilege of helping people on the worst day (or last) of their lives.

Bjarne Ru
The patient started it. Meaning: the cards are dealt and we are just here to play with it. We can't change the deck. Just do your best and that’s all anyone could ever ask for.

Jerome Moore
Leave your biases outside (there's no room for it in EMS) and if you can't, stay outside with it. Becoming an EMT makes you the bridge between life and death for anyone who dials 911.