As it turns out, people take for granted that a career with the ambulance service means you're forever weighed down by death, trauma, and tragedy. They ask, “How do you not let it get to you?” Or, sometimes more abruptly, “Do you even feel anything?”

The truth is, I do feel. But not in the way they think.

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