In the UK, hundreds of paramedics have reported being physically abused or verbally abused while working to serve the public, new data has revealed. More than 1,600 paramedics from across the country said they feared for their own safety or had been threatened while on duty. 27 Jul 2021

I have two friends who used to be paramedics. They quit. Incidents like this eventually got them. Just too much...

You have no idea where they have just been..
The time i went to my first paediatric cardiac arrest.. 6 year old.. boy... same age as my son was... lying on the floor ...his mom screaming don't let him die... problem was he already had... i carried him down to ambulance running as fast as i could carrying a 6 yr old... the ramp wasnt down so i jumped up onto the back ripping a muscle in my hip but not feeling it at the time...we pumped on his tiny chest hoping....praying for something but we knew... his mom just kept saying please don't let him die over and over... as i lay him on the trolley in resus at the children's hospital and handed over to the doctors and nurses of which there must have been 30 i stepped back... i looked at the mom... and the nan who had arrived and must have gone through all the red lights we did to get there so fast i saw devastation.. pale wet faces with a look you will never ever forget...like someone had reached in and stolen the very soul that made them who they were... i put my arm around the mom and squeezed... she prob didnt even feel it......after a short while.... the doctor called it and everyone stopped...it went quiet for about a second until she realised... i had to walk out the door...id taken about 3 or 4 steps up the corridor when i heard the most painful soul destroying scream you really couldn't imagine.. u may think u have seen films or tv with people crying or screaming..trust me when i say a real genuine one is nothing like the films... every single hair stuck up on my body.. i couldn't hold it in anymore i raced through the waiting room so noone would see me cry but it was too late.. the tears were already streaming..but as i got outside i sobbed.. i really sobbed.....i still see his face now... i still hear her scream now... that call took a little bit of me..and every child one since
Next time u see a crew.. smile at em....
. you have no idea where they have just been
When ur out and get pissed and feel like being a dick..or a comedian and the crew doesnt think ur funny......
you have no idea where they have just been
And if u see a crew grabbing some food don't moan or whinge....
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..you have no idea where they have just been
This isnt copied or pasted from Somewhere else this is a real job i went to... nothing actually out the ordinary...i don't work for the ambulance service anymore which breaks my heart... the last year has been hard work coming to terms with it...
You have no idea where i have just been.