There's only maybe two pages in Jane's book that deals with the marriage because she was really talking only about her becoming an EMT and going through this midlife crisis, ... So when Alan Hines wrote the screenplay, he sat down with Michael Stern and really got down to the bottom of what was going on in that relationship. The work was there in the script.
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Of course that meant I had to take the EMT Course at Bladen Community College, which I really enjoyed. I learned first aid, which has come in handy numerous times, even when I wasn't on call. For example, I was eating in a nice restaurant in Wilmington and a person collapsed at the table beside us,
When you first become an EMT, you are extremely gung-ho, with a sense that you save lives, ... You are the antidote to all of life's miseries. You make people rise from the dead. But when you are an EMT for a length of time, you come to the grim reality that the number of lives that you actually save are small. You stabilize people until they get to the hospital. You make sure they can breathe and don't bleed to death and nothing more.
The courage of exploring myself was nothing compared to the courage of actually doing the EMT course, ... As a writer, the concept of self-revelation is not new. The problem was getting through the depression and anxiety and doing something unheard of for me becoming an EMT. Writing about self-revelation is gravy.
They offered the employees training, and I took the opportunity to do that. They put me in touch with the Tennessee Community Workforce Development Center in Gatlinburg, took a couple of tests and they told me what my options were as far as programs I can get into. I chose the EMT. I had thought about going into the medical field, and that was just an opportunity for me to do so.
To EMT guy who has just tried to give directions You wanted to be a doctor, maybe you should have buckled down a little more in high school.
Gosh... for the past 10 years or so I've been with the EMS (Emergency Medical Services) as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician).