Tom Reynolds has had a slow month, and was moaning blogging about it.  From his post:  Watch the ambulance crew after a 'decent job', they'll be standing outside the ambulance bay at the hospital chatting to their colleagues. They'll be animated, they'll be interested in their job but most of all they will have a sense of satisfaction of a job well done.

He had just moved to town.  He was facing a serious medical crisis and his mind was elsewhere as he cruised through the stop sign & t-boned a car in the intersection.   After the fire department, police & paramedics showed up, he told them he hurt all over, and he was strapped to a board, loaded into the ambulance next to the other driver, & taken the few blocks to the hospital.

We're being pushed aside by a wall of eager volunteer firefighters as they scramble to enter the trailer.  They go running down the very narrow hallway to render care.  Unfortunately it's too late.  The occupant has apparently died in his sleep.

This may be a good thing - for them.  Had this person simply been sleeping, or drunk/drugged, and a pace of strangers in civvies came thundering into my bedroom, the outcome could have been different. 

Young Erstwhile Paramedic (having just been dispatched to an "Urban Camper" who the cops were trying to remove from the lawn of a motel): Good afternoon, Sir.  I am a young erstwhile paramedic, who has been called to assist you.  How may I be of assistance?