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Honestly it was the patients.
When you're doing the ambulance thing in a crisis zone you're typically dealing with obvious problems that have obvious solutions gunshot wounds, broken bones, the baby is coming right now, that sort of thing. Concurrently people are, more often than not, very happy to see you and be receiving help. As stressful and traumatic as it often was, I enjoyed being able to honestly say that my skills and talents were making a difference.
Thing is that when you're the ground level point of contact for a big hospital in a reasonably nice first-world city you're not patching people up. You're mostly dealing with junkies, hypochondriacs, and dementia patients. You start to recognize the frequent fliers, and after you've found yourself resuscitating the same guy after an overdose for the third time you start to wonder why you even bother. It's depressing.
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