Matt Brookey
Know what you know and know what you don’t know. Not meaning act like you know everything, it’s a call medical control and or another unit to get the help you need

Gabriel Host
The best medical practice is one that never stops learning

Bill Simmons
Remember that a career in EMS is not a sprint, it’s a grueling cross-country marathon full of peaks and valleys, twists and turns.
Yes it can be very rewarding but equally challenging. Pace yourself and don’t be afraid to ask for guidance if you feel lost or uncertain of which direction to go.

Larry Morse
Look at the patient, not the monitor or your phone.Treat the patient and the family.

Paul Cercy
How you train, will be how you respond. You don’t rise to the circumstance, you fall to your highest level of training.

Mark Carlson
First thing my paramedic instructor said... 'remember, it's not your emergency'

Vickie Mahan Poole
People may not remember you but they will remember how you made them feel. Treat everyone how you would want them treating your mom, grandma or grandpa.

Leonard Zierler
You need to tell them that not every call goes by the book, you'll make mistakes learn from them and never stop learning, take training seriously and practice skills continually

Robert J. Buckley
Treat your patients like they are your Mom.

Daniel Wilkinson
Eat your fries first!!

Toni Petro
I think something important that never gets told is You can do everything right and your patient can still die. This is a wonderful field , but it's also a very heartbreaking field... You will be with people on the worst possible days of their lives. Remember this—they're not going to remember your name, but they will remember how you treated them always be kind... And respectful...

Bri Cole
Compassion first, ego last

Lisa Gaye Strack
The day that you think you know it all or have seen everything, is the day you need to quit, you will never stop learning, no matter what the call is, how simple a call may seem, you will always learn something!

Steven B. Schnaudt
Don’t EVER sacrifice your integrity or your work ethic for any person or organization.

Courtney Bunting
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

Mykaila Oh
1. It’s not your crisis. You’re there to do your best to help.
2. Crazy people are going to do what crazy people do- act crazy.

Rick Young
Rule #1. People die. Rule #2. EMTs cannot change rule #1. Do not take it personal.

Homer Vass
You are not dead until you are warm and dead.

Bonnye Spray
“You don’t rise to the level of the call — you rise to the level of your training.”

Holly Adamovich
It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse

Derrick Bailey
Your patient might remember THAT you treated them. They will definitely remember HOW you treated them.

Richard Hoyle
Never forget: when you are up to your ass in alligators, that your initial mission was to drain the swamp.

Patrick Gleason
That the most important skill they will ever use cannot be taught. They must learn to use their ears to the fullest, and just realize when they need to simply listen to someone.

Kay Phillips
Work smart not hard

Cindy Ramsey
Holding a hand can be powerful medicine. When dealing with the elderly, remember that, if you are lucky, someday you will be on the other side of the mirror (from an ad campaign from the Alzheimer's Foundation.)

Jeff Adams
“Welcome to EMS. You will spend your career trying to save people who don’t want to be saved — and losing people who deserved every second of a longer life. The universe has no explanation for this. Neither does your medical director.”

Tami Wires
Be the EMT that you’d want working on your family.

Jay Osborne
Do one thing today to make tomorrow better then yesterday

Drew Croy
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." Wisdom is knowing the difference.

Mark Kessler
If you don’t talk to the patient, you will never know what’s wrong.