I’ve been reading Peter Canning’s blog for a while. Peter is a Paramedic in Hartford Connecticut, and he’s got a gift. Not only does he seem to be a good, caring medic … but the guy can write. He’s published a few books full of “stories of the street” and I find a little pleasure in knowing that I know where he’s going when he mentions places in Hartford. I know what it’s like to talk to the North Central C-Med dispatcher on Med 10. It’s familiar. It’s what I want to do and yeah, the stories are exciting. There’s a little adrneline junkie in all of us, otherwise, we’d be taxi drivers.
But, I read one of his posts called “The Line” earlier this evening, and I think it really summed up why I want to be a medic. It’s not because I want to be the guy in charge, or the medic that always gets the tube. Instead, I want to continue to learn from every call and give future patents the gift of past experience.
Learning how to be a better medic every day. That’ll be my goal.
I’ve been reading his blog for over a year (and I’ve purchased and read both of his books.). I couldn’t agree more.