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Maintaining Resilience and Mental Health in the EMS Profession

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The suicide rate among emergency medical service (EMS) professionals rose a shocking 38 percent since 2009, according to a study published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. As an emergency medical technician (EMT) or paramedic, you typically work a five-day rotation of 12-hour shifts (days or nights).

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A Chef and a Paramedic Walk Into a Bar.

The Overrun

We know instinctively that the years of running calls, driving incessantly, long hours posted, and inherent risks of being a paramedic or EMT will get us back in the end. In Snyder CR, Lopez SJ (eds.). What makes us embrace a career and lifestyle that we know is hard and works against us? Why do we do what we do? Bourdain, A.