Burn out is a thing in that line of work too.
I think it's possible we should be spreading out emergency response better amongst society, but I don't have much in the way of practical suggestion.
Of course, we should also compensate our non-police emergency responders much better. My understanding is that EMTs make close to minimum wage and tend to carry higher individual liability.
Everybody should have a right to healthcare.
It reinforces ego. It's a common malady. An optional one (which isn't to say it's always easy to ditch given constant and insistent if irrational social reinforcement).
It must be an distressing burden to carry that weight of judgement, regardless of what job you do.
The point is just that even altruistic people, who one might presume are disinclined to such judgments, can find themselves making them after a time.
Besides, the doctor in my example was not even judging people, merely expressing exasperation at the inability for the resources expended to hit their intended targets. No one likes to feel like their work is meaningless, and getting paid (in public funds, no less) for patients who don’t show up might feel meaningless.
If there's disagreement, it seems to be about whether or not this is necessary. I contend (along with thousands of wise narrators from just about every culture throughout human history) that it is not. This is just spiritual/ideological/psychological pragmatism (depending on your metaphysical orientation), and is intrinsically unrelated to altruism or perhaps ethics. Indeed someone holding a view that judgement of others is ethically or morally 'bad' merely shifts the target of the wasted mental judging-activity to their own putative ego.
Only healthy people, physically and mentally, should be granted healthcare, amirite?