Frank Pierce: The street’s not like the ER. There’s no walls, no controls. To make up for that, they try to teach me how to act without thinking - like a soldier 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. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply showed up.
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