Mr Raymond Hannah has been a Leading Ambulance Technician for twenty three years. He told me that the most important qualities an Ambulance Technician needs are patience and compassion. There are many ways in which this kind of work emotionally affects the Paramedics, from identification with the victim to cumulative stress and fear for their own safety. There is a Hungarian proverb ‘Jobb felni, mint megijedni’, that means, ‘It is better to fear than to be frightened’.