The street is so much more unpredictable than the ER and to prepare for the unexpected I...
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The street is so much more unpredictable than the ER and to prepare for the unexpected I was taught to act without thinking, like an army private who can take apart and reassemble a gun blindfolded. I realized that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls and saving someone's life was rarer than that. As the years went by I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop and much of my job was to remove, if even for a short time, the grief starter or the grief product. It was enough I simply showed up
The street is so much more unpredictable than the ER and to prepare for the unexpected I was taught to act without thinking, like an army private who can take apart and reassemble a gun blindfolded. I realized that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls and saving someone's life was rarer than that. As the years went by I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop and much of my job was to remove, if even for a short time, the grief starter or the grief product. It was enough I simply showed up
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Frank Narrating The street's not like the E R
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There's no walls no controls
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To make up for that they try to teach me how to act without thinking
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like a soldier who can take apart and reassemble a gun blindfolded
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Kick his ass Fuck him up Fuck him up
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Kick his ass Beat the shit out of him baby
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Beat the shit out of him
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Frank Continues I realized that my training was useful
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in less than ten percent of the calls
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and saving someone's life was rarer than that
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Movie Summary
Haunted by the patients he failed to save, a monumentally burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three increasingly turbulent nights.
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Frank Pierce
