Talk about leaving us on a hanger. You can't write all that and not share a single story.

To be fair, some of the stories he told me are horrific enough not to share, and its amazing that those weren't the issues that made him leave. They certainly could have had a cumulative effect.

There was one "gallows humor" story of an obviously fatal bicycle accident. As paramedics, they could not declare the victim dead. They had to have authorization from the hospital.

The hospital insisted they send the EKG data back.

They said "Ok", and rather than going through the effort of connecting up the victim, they just stuck the leads to the truck and said "here it comes".

Then they got the OK to declare there at the scene.