10/02/2026
EDITOR'S NOTE: In our field, our EMTs and Paramedics rarely share personal feelings. When they do, it can be inspirational. We want to share a story from one of our paramedics, Emily Brown, in her own words:
Let me tell you about our God….Earlier this week, my partner Lindsay Wilson and I got to visit one of our previous patients while in rehab after a traumatic motorcycle accident. Here’s the backstory… Our patient was involved in a motorcycle accident in July of this year. After seeing the extent of his injuries, the decision was made to fly him to a higher level of care. Our patient was transported to UAMS, & right here is where our part usually ends. It is rare that we get updates on the outcome of our patients. We just knew he was bad off and didn’t think he would make it, and if he did survive, he had a long road to recovery. We were unaware of who our patient even was at the time, and due to the injuries, he was hard to identify (we were guessing his name due to barely being able to understand him). Little did we know he would be one of our biggest blessings. As days went by, we started seeing updates on Facebook from someone who was involved in an accident, and we realized the updates were from our patient’s son. For weeks, we silently checked for updates every day just to know how he was doing. As a paramedic, I think I can speak for everyone at Med-Tech EMS that after calls we will debrief and discuss what we could have done better to improve the outcome of our patients…. We take things home and ponder some of the calls that sometimes will haunt us for the rest of our lives, just so we can improve and be better at what we do. The training never stops. The updates from his son that we were seeing about our patient didn’t look too good, so my partner and I discussed this call more and more over the weeks. We found out UAMS originally called his family and told them to come say their goodbyes; he probably was not going to make it…. We eventually stopped getting updates and were left with the unknown…. Until the other night, I happened to be up at midnight at home and saw a call go out… I just happened to check with dispatch on it, which is rare for me while I’m off work, and saw where my coworkers responded to and who the patient was, and instantly knew he was my patient from the accident. I reached out to my coworker, who then FaceTimed me because the patient wanted to talk with me. Y’all…. Let me tell you… When you hear the words thank you from someone you didn’t even know was going to recover from such an accident… it changes your whole viewpoint. I cried that night; I was in my room praising and thanking God because I got to see firsthand what He did. I got to see it from start to finish, and that alone is the biggest reward in this job. Even though we train and do our very best on every call… if God calls someone home… there is nothing we can do to bring them back, but to know God used us in that moment to play a little part in his miracle brings tears to my eyes. We then got to have the honor to visit our patient earlier this week. We were reminded of why we give up time with our families, why we go hours without eating or sleeping, why we have all the training that we do, and all the stress and pressure we deal with… we got to see why we sacrifice so much. We got to hug our patient who is now recovering. To see our God work and use our hands and our training to help in his miracle is everything we needed and more. We prayed for this patient and his family for what they were going to go through…. and God answered. Thank you to the McDonald family for letting us visit. We appreciate it more than y’all will ever know. We at Med-Tech EMS are excited to watch Brian’s testimony unfold.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The story was shared with the permission of the patient and family.
