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“Your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you’re getting.”
― David Murrow, Why Men Hate Going to Church

“But as always, lessons are drawn from mistakes, not victories.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

“I miss the madness. I miss being out at night, running through streets alive with the dead and dying, the drunk, the crazy, the angry, those in need, and those who only think they are. I miss the distant pop of a pistol and the long fading howl of a dealer who’s spotted a cop. I miss fighting meth heads in seedy motels, I miss the crack houses and flophouses, the chaos of a shooting scene. I miss the projects after dark. I miss the sense of duty, of honor, of humor, the sense of having lost myself somewhere, somehow, in a very strange world. I even miss the fear of mistakes. Whatever it was that brought us here, it’s everything else that kept us around.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

“Medicine's great magic trick is how it convinces us we're here saving lives when more often what we're doing is witnessing death.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back