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When your job involves deciding who lives and dies

I've been a paramedic for fifteen years and I can save some people but not others, and I'm starting to feel like I'm playing God every time I show up to a call.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated exposure to life-and-death decisions can burden ordinary humans with the weight of divine responsibility.

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