It could always be worse
Jay Weaver has the credibility two decades of working for Boston Emergency Medical Services brings, something he describes on his blog Other People's Emergencies: Random Thoughts of an Urban Paramedic. (For more, see this Globe story.)
So when he says things could be worse, listen up. In a post called "It's All Relative," he explains what life on military duty means.
"Those of who us work in EMS complain a lot - sometimes, with good reason. People bleed on us, and vomit on us, and sometimes they try to kill us. Not many people enjoy these things. But it could always be worse," he writes. "As paramedics, we go into dangerous buildings all the time. Places where drug dealers live, and addicts, and criminals of all sorts. But at no time during my 23 years with EMS has anyone tried to blow me up with a bomb. Nor has anyone shot at me with a machine gun. I've kicked in plenty of apartment doors as a paramedic, but I've never found armed soldiers waiting for me on the other side."
"It could always be worse."
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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She
previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in
her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and
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