The pain is a by product.
Yeah right
But, yes, there is nothing like getting to use the deifb on someone, doing chest compressions or even dropping an NG tube. I just wish they would let us intubate.
Intubations overrated - when it goes well it's fantastic, when it goes wrong, the worst thing in the world - I once knocked out a whole load of a drug user's teeth trying to intubate him while he was fitting... I still have nightmares about that from time to time...
I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag,
I was schooled with a strap right across my back