Mr Edwards finished his last shift as an intensive care paramedic on Sunday.

"I've loved it. If I was a bit younger I'd stay and do it again. It's the best job in the world. I feel very privileged to have worked with all the people I have," he said.

A lot has changed since Mr Edwards began his career.

ALSO MAKING NEWS:

"When I started in the job it was a simple job and we did simple things. Now it's progressed into taking treatments that were only available in the hospital into people's homes, for example defibrillation and life-saving drugs," Mr Edwards said.

"Initially you'd put them on the stretcher and drive them to hospital, but that's not what it's like now. The training is excellent and the vehicles are so good."

Every day is busy and Mr Edwards said the most common calls were to the elderly, mental health concerns or those under the influence of drugs.

"The best job was when we went to a patient and as we pulled up he was sitting out the front of his property with his wife and he slumped on the table. As we got closer we realised he was in cardiac arrest. He had no pulse, no breathing," the intensive care paramedic said.

"We got him on the stretcher and immediately shocked him with the defibrillator and he woke up and immediately spoke to us."

Mr Edwards has also been involved in six child deliveries. In the majority of cases he said assisting with a birth was easy because it was a natural phenomenon.

Overall, Mr Edwards said camaraderie at the Dubbo ambulance station was very high.

He said the funniest job was when two paramedics were called out to help an elderly man. They pulled up to the property, saw the man in his wheelchair and loaded him onto the stretcher.

It wasn't until his wife came out to ask what the paramedics were doing that they realised they had gone to the wrong address.

After working from Sydney to Coffs Harbour, Mr Edwards is retiring to the Gold Coast.