I’ve been privileged to have multiple rewarding jobs in my life and working on the ambulance is the ride of a lifetime. I cannot emphasize enough how that experience has helped me in my career. I have recently been able to advocate for research into pre-hospital technologies. My main research enterprise is now able to try to develop new diagnostic devices that can be used to assess patients and this may help them treat patients better and faster. Every day when I come to work I am talking to people and working on projects with an eye to aiding paramedics in the field. To a certain extent I think of the old gentleman Fritz who died from a stroke. Some day paramedics in the ambulance will be able to diagnose and treat patients like Fritz and with luck; I am hoping to be involved in making that possible.