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Quotes About Medics

When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
~ Bobby Seale
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.
~ Tim Holden
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
~ Michael Lewis
They called in medics, but two got killed trying to get to Dole.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
Then he dipped his finger into Dole's shredded jacket, and with Dole's blood traced an "M" on his forehead. That'd let the medics know he'd had a shot—another would kill him, overdose ... if a medic ever got there ... if McBryar could spot one
~ Richard Ben Cramer
There were special problems involved in tending the wounded, too, for the same cold that immobilized a man with low blood pressure also tended to freeze drugs solid. Finnish medics went into battle with ampoules of morphine tucked inside their mouths or taped to their armpits.
~ William R. Trotter
There was story after story of young soldiers, seriously injured, who literally fought back at medics who tried to hold them down and take them out of the fight—they were that determined not to leave their brothers behind on the battlefield.
~ Jay Sekulow
American GIs gave the morphine syringe each front-line soldier carried to the doctors and medics to alleviate the suffering of the half-dead concentration-camp victims.
~ Ruth Gruber
American society asks police officers to use violence when needed to enforce the law, but we also ask them to serve as mediators, protectors, social workers, mentors, and medics. But it's very difficult to play any one of these roles well—and it's almost impossible to be good at them all.
~ Rosa Brooks
major paused in his jeep. "What's wrong?" he asked. "Are you sick, soldier?" "Nosir. I'm just spilling my guts for the hell of it." "Maybe you'd better report to the medics.
~ Audie Murphy
Man, God really does love medics.
~ Mark Bowden
Somehow, he was not in the least surprised, nor was he alarmed. On the contrary, he felt a sense of calm expectation, such as he had once known when the space medics had tested him with hallucinogenic drugs. The world around him was strange and wonderful, but there was nothing to fear.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The other way to train medics is to have them practice a skill so many times that it becomes automatic. So when the prefrontal cortex goes AWOL, when reasoning drops away, muscle memory, one hopes, will persist.
~ Mary Roach
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
~ Michael Lewis
The medics were the most popular, respected, and appreciated men in the company. Their weapons were first-aid kits, their place on the line was wherever a man called out that he was wounded.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
They're medics. Rebel medics. I'd know the uniforms anywhere. They swarm in among the children, wielding medical kits.
~ Suzanne Collins
You staked him. You actually staked him. It was handy. Let's get those medics in here. I don't want this guy skipping out on multiple murder charges by dying on me. I want to know the minute he's able to talk. I think we're going to get an interesting confession. It's supposed to be the heart. she heard Peabody mutter. It's really supposed to be the heart. Eve blew out a long breath. Keep it up, Peabody, and I may have Mira shrink your head after she's done with the second-rate Dracula
~ J.D. Robb
The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
~ Antony Beevor
Later that day, shortly before the sun sank in the wintry sky, despite the best efforts of the medics, Arra Sails closed her eyes, made peace with the gods of the vampires, breathed her last...and died.
~ Darren Shan
Plus, it was Preservation and there were no scanning drones, no armed human security, just some on-call human medics with bot assistants and "rangers" who mainly enforced environmental regulations and yelled at humans and augmented humans to get out of the way of the ground vehicles.
~ Martha Wells
But when the American south started to go down, as the unsecured southern border with Mexico became a raging and unmanageable vector for the virus… and as the military bases became beleaguered outposts in a rising sea of the dead… and then when well-meaning combat medics poked a hole in the dike by bringing infected men inside…
~ Michael Stephen Fuchs