Kelly Grayson is a very experienced paramedic, educator, speaker and author that serves the EMS community. 

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Amazon.com: On Scene: More Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between (A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between Book 2) eBook : Grayson, Steven "Kelly" : Kindle Store

En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between: Grayson, Steven Kelly: 9781537770819: Amazon.com: Books

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

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