"I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. " Frank Pierce (Nicholas Cage) "Bringing Out The Dead" I have not seen the movie, nor read the book, but I will say that that is one of the most accurate quotes about EMS I have ever read......