JCP #6 - Patrick Lee

Originally from California.  Patrick moved to Tennessee in 2019 to start a new life.  He started in EMS in Feb 2015 and began his career at Falck in Northern California, ferrying dialysis patients and geriatrics to appointments.  He's been in EMS 10 years next month.  Over those ten years Patrick has worked as a critical care EMT in California, 911 EMT, and hospital technician for three years in a small district hospital.  He was frontline on the California wildfires in 2017/2018.  Since 2015, he has done training in tactical medicine with Urban Shield and is currently, a Paramedic in the Nashville Area.  He is hazmat operations and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care trained. Patrick enjoys hunting, shooting, Jiu-Jitsu, and being a new father.  Patrick knows the importance of addressing mental health in the first responder community and wants to encourage other first responders to take their mental health seriously and not fight their battles alone.