Kelly Grayson is a very experienced paramedic, educator, speaker and author that serves the EMS community.
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How to compartmentalize and do our job without losing our humanity. This is a balance we are all trying to find
Kelly talks about how he had to detach in order to quickly triage on a scene and how this is necessary to do the job a lot of times
Joy and pain are different sides of the same coin; if you insulate from one you deny the enjoyment of the other
If you don’t let the failure to resuscitate a pediatric patient bother you, how can you feel the joy of delivering a baby?
Often we are spending more time with the lowest of society rather than on our own health and well-being
You have to be able to step away from EMS and leave work at work. But we all know this is very difficult. You need to share your feelings with your family. Holding it all inside is not helpful
Kelly talks about how this lack of communication cost him a marriage
Also, remember that we may not be that many steps removed from some of these addicts, alcoholics and homeless. Have some sympathy for them
We all have our struggles and some of them are worse than others
The term hero gets thrown around a lot but a lot of us don’t like to think of ourselves as heroes
But when a patient tells you that you are a hero, maybe then we can accept it
What is important to us is not what is important to the patient
Were you nice?
We don’t know what the patient is going through. It’s helpful to have a paradigm shift and realize that they are likely having one of the worst days of their lives
No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care
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