Andy Anderson is a former Firefighter & First Responder for Suqualena VFD, Paramedic with Metro Ambulance, former part-time SWAT Medic with DPS backing up MBN & MHP. He currently works as a part-time Deputy with Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Department’s SWAT Team, ER Physician at a Level I Trauma Center, Medical Director for Central Mississippi EMS District, and Medical Director for Hinds CC Paramedic program. He also teaches firearms classes at Boondocks Firearms Training Academy.

By Andy Anderson

So, here’s the thing about parenting as a medic — you think you’ll have an edge. You’ve seen it all, so you’ll outsmart the chaos. But the reality is, you just know too much, and you start parenting like you’re pre-writing the incident report.

By the time my youngest came along, I was already

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