When God made Paramedics

There are tons of poems and short verses to describe being a paramedic... this by far has to be one of the best that i have read for a long time... enjoy!

When the Lord made Paramedics, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, "Your doing a lot of fiddling around on the one." And the Lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order?

- A paramedic has to be able to carry an injured person up a wet, grassy hill in the dark, dodge stray bullets to reach a dying child unarmed, enter homes the health inspector wouldn't touch, and not wrinkle his uniform.

- He has to be able to lift 3 times his own weight, crawl into wrecked cars with barely enough room to move, and console a grieving mother as he is doing CPR on a baby he knows will never breath again.

- He has to be in top mental condition at all times, running on no sleep, black coffee and half-eaten meals. And he has to have six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands...no way." "Its not the hands that are causing me problems, " said the Lord, "Its the 3 pairs of eyes a medic has to have.""Thats on the standard model?" asked the angel.

The lord nodded. "One pair that sees open sores as hes drawing blood and asks the patient if they may be HIV positive. When he already knows and wishes he'd taken that accounting job.

- "Another pair here in the side of his head for his partners safety.

- And another pair of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, You'll be all right ma'am when he knows it isn't so."

"Lord" said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this tomorrow."
"I can't" said the Lord, "I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk out from behind a steering wheel without incident and feed a family of five on private service paycheck."

The angel circled the model of the paramedic very slowly, "Can it think?" she asked. "You bet, " said the Lord. "It can tell you the symptoms of 100 illnesses; recite drug calculations in its sleep; intubate, defibrillate, medicate, and continue CPR nonstop over terrain that any doctor would fear....and still it keeps its sense of humor.

- This medic also has phenomenal personal control.

- He can deal with a multi-victim trauma, coax a frightened elderly person to unlock their door,

- comfort a murder victims family, and then read in the daily paper how paramedics were unable to locate a house quickly enough, allowing the person to die. A house which had no street sign, no house numbers, no phone to call back."

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the Paramedic. "Theres a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model."

"That is not a leak," said the Lord, "Its a tear." "What is the tear for?" asked the angel. "Its for bottled-up emotions, for patients they've tried in vain to save, for commitment to that hope that they will make a difference in a persons chance to survive, for life."

"You're a genius," said the angel. The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," He said.

-UNKNOWN

Reminds me of my first Paramedic teacher ever... "Real men cry"... I'll always remember him... Thank You