I forgot this one yesterday.......
We are not heroes
Our job is to provide a service, safe and efficient. I am an helicopter pilot doing a specific job. I am not here to kill 4 people to try to save one. It is retarded and unacceptable. This "heroes and saving life stuff" is a recipe for disaster when people decide to push their limits to the extreme and break any possible rule.
We have seen that a lot during the last 10 years.
I have been in EMS for 16 years and I am not a hero. I am tired of this media stuff, they don't understand anything
And to finish: we are only human, we try to excel, to do our best. But human are human, we do mistakes and we do have bad days. I am sure anybody on this website had bad days when they were not very efficient or realize that it could have been a catastrophe in certain circumstances, it does not matter how many thousand hours you have....