Medic 22 » Peter Canning http://medic22.com A collection of disjointed ramblings of an EMT. Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:26:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 I wish I was this eloquent.. http://medic22.com/2008/12/i-wish-i-was-this-eloquent/ http://medic22.com/2008/12/i-wish-i-was-this-eloquent/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:54:00 +0000 medic22 http://medicseven.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/i-wish-i-was-this-eloquent 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.

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