In “My Ambulance Education” there is an interesting quote.

“In college, if you make a mistake in a test there may be a final or makeup so you can do it over. But in life, and on the ambulance, there is no such thing as a do-over. The ambulance life is excessively harsh and contains more reality than most people should have to deal with.” Joseph F. Clark, PhD.

This Quote embodies the paradox that exists on the job and in college life. Happily, I’m still in college as a college professor and it is an insular and cloistered life. I sleep nights and don’t have to wash blood out of my clothes. Most of my days of work, I want to remember as opposed to wanting to un-see what I had seen. Life is good so I am grateful for not having to rush to the scenes of human tragedy.