What Makes A Great Partner?
Everyone has their own idea of what makes a shift a good shift. Each of us carries our own magic recipe. Perhaps a little trauma with a dash of cardiac thrown in. Add a choice rig from the fleet and a dispatcher who still remembers the last burrito run you made for her. Sprinkle liberally with just the right amount of 
down time and voila!
Wait. We’re missing the most essential ingredient. A great shift can never be a great shift without a great partner. That’s the best thing about EMS, all the awesome characters you get to work along side. Some would say that when your mixing your recipe for a great shift, your partner isn’t the most important factor, it’s the only factor. I tend to agree.
Think about it. You could give me the worst shift schedule and the crummiest rig in the fleet. Make me run the worst calls that come. Hold me over late. But if you give me the right partner, we’re going to have some fun. There’s just no stopping us.
The inverse is true as well. Put me in the best medic unit on a prime shift. Dispatch me to the most cherry-picked calls and send me in early when I’m done. But if my partner’s some serious, stick-in-the-mud who couldn’t find fun if you stapled it to his forehead, guess what? It’s going to suck. There’s just no nice way to put it. The partner makes all the difference.
So I got to thinking … no really. What makes an awesome partner? Here’s my list.
