Well, english not my native language ok? said that... the things you mention... That's what we do. That's precisely what our business is about in its daily ROUTINE. What exactly makes you feel so special about those things? That's simply what is expected by a whatever vaguely decent first responder. Being proud could be admitted and understood: being annoyed by what you have done isn't, instead, understandable at all. And you do seem annoyed, and even posing. Is this the way you mean to welcome your readers to the world of dedication to the service? But, more importantly: what makes you think that you have any right whatsoever to determine who needs your service and who doesn't? You are like the all of us: we are there to be called - if you don't like it change job. It is in the nature of the thing that many calls may not be exactly for the disaster of a lifetime where your so brilliant capacities could find a milieu worth of their outstanding and amazing and grandiose worth. If we have to judge as worth of our attention only those cases where our CPR is required, it is time to get a vacation before we get a final burn-out. Nothing, simply nothing, absolutely nothing warrants in the least even the least feeling of sufficiency or annoyance towards whatever patient. If over time, with experience, you came to that behaviour, it is to be hoped that such "improvements" are not the ones that go with experience. Maybe, like many, you have developed this attitude towards the patients, namely of considering most of them a bunch of asses that call you without a valid reason, because your environment considered particularly fashionable behaving in this way but the fact is: ETSI OMNES EGO NON - even if everybody would behave like that, I will NOT. If you don't like a sore back, it is time to quit thinking you are a hero. And if you want to be a hero, it is time to quit complaining. You, not your patients. I am sorry to sound a bit harsh, but it was truly appalling seeing that in your front page this attitude was sported. Maybe I misunderstood, of course. Wouldn't be my first time! Maybe. But if you cannot do this job without wanting a thank you, it is time to remember that either you can do it without any thank you, you deserve no thank you in the first place... It's a thankless job. It may even be a moneyless job. And your thank you consists in knowing you have done something useful for somebody. For the reward of the good action, is the good action.