A Lesson Learned

So there is this frequent flyer that always calls. It's always bullshit, and the crews are so tired of his lies they treat him harshly. So it's 3am and we are just getting to lay down and try and close our eyes when the beepers fire. Chest pain at the well known location. So we roll lights and sirens waking up the good folks dreaming of dancing sheep, cause if I got to be up so do you, and arrive at the addy to see you know who sitting on a swing. His family is still sleeping and won't even rouse themselves to come to the disco with him. Now, the last time I rolled on him he lied to me. Flat out lied. I hate liars, so I start out reminding him about it and saying that if he lies to me again I will call the po-po to have him arrested for abusing the 911 system. The boy has sickle cell and is complaining of pain in his chest all day. Since little baby J hasn't deemed it necessary to equip me with xray vision, no matter how many times I begged for it as a kid and my 3 dollars to the comic book ad never panned out, i have to trust him. Now here is where I learned a little sumthing that shamed me to my core. I WAS NICE TO HIM. I didn't give him narcs, he never asked. All I did was treat him with the same respect he was giving me. He was cold so I got a blanket and tucked him in on the stretcher. I'm in cajun land, I'm reasonably sure our AC units come from meat lockers, so it was chilly even for me but due to the fickle nature of our units you never touch the settings lest they refuse to come on again and you find yourself hauling the gaseous gangrene ALS transport. Trust me, 10 mossy oak air deodorizers, in the words of Hammer, can't touch that.  Anyhoo, I was nice to him. I treated this guy with respect due any human being, and he started crying. CRYING! I was so ashamed. Ashamed of my fellow medics, ashamed of my service and profession as a whole.I learned a lesson not taught in school that night as we off loaded him onto the hospital bed. There but for the grace of god go I, and to treat EVERYONE I roll on the exact same as I would want myself or my family treated.