~ The Elders ~

It takes an innate ability to read an audience to be a decent classroom instructor.  Especially when your students are:

1) Adults,

2) Very Bright,

3) In your class mandatorily to maintain their certification, and,

4) Medics.

I don’t know that I would have the courage to lecture such a roughened, seasoned, bunch of extreme, living-on-the-edge-for-a-career kind of people.

(Heck I’m amazed I have the courage to show up at all, even just to sit in the back.)

But these guys do:

Joe, Adam, and Ty….Decades of experience between them.  Hundreds of lives saved or healed for the better because of them, personally.  Thousands of lives affected positively because of the medics they teach and train.

To be able to teach a subject is to have mastered it.  To be able to teach it in a way that keeps the student not only interested, but also entertained, is a talent.

In this particular case, everybody wins.  The teachers, for the mastery… the students, to grow their skills and knowledge… and the citizens they serve, for they will get better care for it.

Most people don’t realize how much work goes into and behind each and every 911 call that goes out.  It’s not as simple as getting into an ambulance and picking the patient or victim up.  Hours and hours of training go into it.

Why?

Because the medics want to do a good job?

Because the medics don’t want to be caught with their pants down?

Because the medics are afraid of litigation?

Because the medics have some kind of ‘Hero’ or ‘God’ complex?

No.

It’s simply because they care.