Download or read book Gross a Paramedic Story written by Craig A. Mills Justin J Miller and published by Craig A Mills. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we began writing, we discovered something amazing. The stories came to us like a river rising. Each story reminded us of another and we could not write fast enough. As we related our experiences as paramedics, the things we thought long forgotten took on a clearer perspective. We began to see the things that made us into the paramedics we are today. These are our stories.
Download or read book Life Changing Paramedic Stories written by Dion Siluch and published by Dion Siluch. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it’s like to save a life? The most interesting part about being a paramedic is the audience you attract. The stories that I typically share will make people cry, laugh, get inspired, get angry, feel sick, feel loved and educate. Sometimes all at the same time! There’s a rule with emergency responders that is universal. We are seriously messed up! We’ve seen it all… From paranoid schizophrenic psychopaths driving 140km/hr into a rock wall to a life changing incident that will make a grown man cry, our range of stories are endless. I’ve always heard the quote ‘hell is paved with good intentions’ but I didn’t really understand it until working with the ambulance. The more I experienced, the more I learned, and the more I learned, the more I understood how insane our world is. I’m happy to say this book has inspired people to take a deeper look into what really matters. How life can so quickly be taken away and the appreciation for the simple things in life can bring long lasting joy. So please enjoy as I share the 12 most amazing stories that will change your life.
Download or read book A Paramedic s Story written by Steven "Kelly" Grayson and published by Kaplan Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the life-and-death world of an EMT—sometimes bloody, sometimes even funny, but always compelling. When someone dials 911, Emergency Medical Technician Kelly Grayson is there—to restart the heart that has stopped beating, deal with dangerously high blood alcohol levels, or pull a body from a mangled car wreck. As an EMT, Grayson sees people at their best and worst, in situations that can be gruesome, moving, and heart-breaking. Regardless of the emergency, Grayson is the first line of defense, picking up the pieces and saving lives—or, sadly, watching them slip away. A Paramedic's Story is bursting with stories that run the gamut from lighthearted to heart-wrenching. With his brutally candid style, Grayson gives readers his special insight into the human condition, and shows us what it feels like to hold lives in his hands every day.
Download or read book Sound of Mercy A Paramedic s Story written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What We Carry written by Gail Larkin and published by Full Court Press. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting memoir of a young woman's coming-of-age and career as an EMT and paramedic, richly felt and eloquently expressed in story form, that captures the moment-by-moment discoveries she makes-through patients and co-workers- into the depths of human nature.
Download or read book Seventy Two Hours written by Steve Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One person's true account of life as a paramedic in the beginning days of paramedicine. This story reflects what life was like during the time when paramedics were in the beginning phases of the EMS world. It is a shocking real view of the daily events in the life of a paramedic, and includes stories of emotional coping strategies used in the field of lifesaving; as well as graphic details of heartbreaking circumstances, anecdotal accounts of true events, and examples of the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects upon the individuals who choose to save the lives of strangers; during a time when there was no supporting awareness or agencies to deal with the horrible, life changing trauma experienced by the individuals who chose to do this heroic work; and the most overused statement from the governing populous was, "If you can't take it, quit." This is a story about those who didn't quit, but continued to give of themselves, against all odds. With very low pay, and no benefits, these individuals continued to save lives, during a time when no one even said, "Thank you."
Download or read book Rescue 471 written by Peter Canning and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUE LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA In taut, thrilling prose, Peter Canning has written a book that captures the rarely seen real world of emergency medicine. A seasoned paramedic who fights under enormous pressure to save lives, Canning trains new paramedics for the rigors of a nonstop, action-packed battle. From a four-month-old baby who has stopped breathing to a sixty-seven-year-old woman with a strange abdominal mass that threatens to explode--these are gripping true stories from the "ER on the streets." An exciting, often moving account, Canning tells a powerful story of camaraderie, selflessness, and courage as paramedics try to stand tall and human through both defeat and victory.
Download or read book En Route written by Steven Kelly Grayson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven "Kelly" Grayson has seen the best of us at our worst. When hearts stop working, when blood alcohol levels exceed limits we shouldn't contemplate, when bodies are extricated from car wrecks, he's been there to pick up the pieces, save our lives, and watch us slip away. En Route is an unflinching look at the heart of a paramedic and the profession that shaped him. Grayson's touching stories of life and death and the hilarious ones of times in between are here to give us an insight of what happens after we call 911, the ambulance doors close, or even what happens inside the ER when the nurse shows the family to the waiting room.
Download or read book A Thousand Naked Strangers written by Kevin Hazzard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former paramedic’s visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta’s mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life—his days were too safe, too routine. A failed salesman turned local reporter, he wanted to test himself, see how he might respond to pressure and danger. He signed up for emergency medical training and became, at age twenty-six, a newly minted EMT running calls in the worst sections of Atlanta. His life entered a different realm—one of blood, violence, and amazing grace. Thoroughly intimidated at first and frequently terrified, he experienced on a nightly basis the adrenaline rush of walking into chaos. But in his downtime, Kevin reflected on how people’s facades drop away when catastrophe strikes. As his hours on the job piled up, he realized he was beginning to see into the truth of things. There is no pretense five beats into a chest compression, or in an alley next to a crack den, or on a dimly lit highway where cars have collided. Eventually, what had at first seemed impossible happened: Kevin acquired mastery. And in the process he was able to discern the professional differences between his freewheeling peers, what marked each—as he termed them—as “a tourist,” “true believer,” or “killer.” Combining indelible scenes that remind us of life’s fragile beauty with laugh-out-loud moments that keep us smiling through the worst, A Thousand Naked Strangers is an absorbing read about one man’s journey of self-discovery—a trip that also teaches us about ourselves.
Download or read book Ambulance Girl written by Jane Stern and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the movie starring Kathy Bates, Ambulance Girl is an inspiring story by a woman who found, somewhat late in life, that “in helping others I learned to help myself.” Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying and severe claustrophobia. Yet, this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical technician. Stern tells her story with great humor and poignancy, creating a wonderful portrait of a middle-aged, Woody Allen–ish woman who was “deeply and neurotically terrified of sick and dead people,” but who went out into the world to save other people’s lives as a way of saving her own. Her story begins with the boot camp of EMT training: 140 hours at the hands of a dour ex-marine who took delight in presenting a veritable parade of amputations, hideous deformities, and gross disasters. Jane—overweight and badly out of shape—had to surmount physical challenges like carrying a 250-pound man seated in a chair down a dark flight of stairs. After class she did rounds in the emergency room of a local hospital. Each call Stern describes is a vignette of human nature, often with a life in the balance. From an AIDS hospice to town drunks, yuppie wife beaters to psychopaths, Jane comes to see the true nature and underlying mysteries of a town she had called home for twenty years. Throughout the book we follow her as she gets her sea legs, bonds with the firefighters who become her colleagues, and eventually, comes to be known as Ambulance Girl.
Download or read book Ambulance Girl written by Jane Stern and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the movie starring Kathy Bates, Ambulance Girl is an inspiring story by a woman who found, somewhat late in life, that “in helping others I learned to help myself.” Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying and severe claustrophobia. Yet, this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical technician. Stern tells her story with great humor and poignancy, creating a wonderful portrait of a middle-aged, Woody Allen–ish woman who was “deeply and neurotically terrified of sick and dead people,” but who went out into the world to save other people’s lives as a way of saving her own. Her story begins with the boot camp of EMT training: 140 hours at the hands of a dour ex-marine who took delight in presenting a veritable parade of amputations, hideous deformities, and gross disasters. Jane—overweight and badly out of shape—had to surmount physical challenges like carrying a 250-pound man seated in a chair down a dark flight of stairs. After class she did rounds in the emergency room of a local hospital. Each call Stern describes is a vignette of human nature, often with a life in the balance. From an AIDS hospice to town drunks, yuppie wife beaters to psychopaths, Jane comes to see the true nature and underlying mysteries of a town she had called home for twenty years. Throughout the book we follow her as she gets her sea legs, bonds with the firefighters who become her colleagues, and eventually, comes to be known as Ambulance Girl.
Download or read book En Route written by Steven ""Kelly"" Grayson and published by Kaplan Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Welcome to the fast-paced, high-stress, and often hilarious world of Kelly Grayson as he shares his raw and uncensored experiences in 'En Route', a non-stop ride on his career as a paramedic" -- inside cover.
Download or read book Confessions of a Paramedic written by Sharon Holbert and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Confessions of a Paramedic" is a roller coaster ride that takes the reader deep into the life of an EMT-Paramedic working in the rural southwest. This true story spans the author's exciting and dramatic thirty year career from volunteer EMT to professional Paramedic. The author captures the imagination of the trained professional as well as the non-medical reader. It's far more than a collection of interesting 911 calls. The author paints a picture in vivid detail, telling the patient's story as well as the impact on her own personal life. She tells of the excitement, danger, humor and the drama of life and death situations. She candidly shares her triumphs and failures. Her powerful stories are intense. They tell the story of real people and true events. This book has a personal aspect when she writes about juggling the duties of a wife, mother and her career. She speaks of the stress, responsibility and the challenge of holding someone's life in her hands. She weaves the story of unforgettable events and patients she can't forget.Experience Holbert's personal challenge when she arrived alone as a first responder to a motor vehicle accident and found one of three patients to be her own seriously injured husband. Travel with her to the remote four corners area as she tells of being stranded in an ambulance during a snowstorm with a dying patient. Stand beside her in the middle of a debris covered rural highway were a pickup had just rolled only minutes before and threw eleven people to the four winds. The four adults, five children (none over six years old) and two tiny babies lay scattered on the highway seriously injured. The carnage was unbelievable as she stood there, alone, the only EMT. As Rescue Chief for a rural fire department, she was crossed trained in firefighting. The author brings to life the excitement of fighting a fire, witnessing flashover and pulling a man from a burning trailer. She tells of how it feels to be Incident Command of a large fire. Share her personal hell as she ordered her husband into the burning building that contained flaming tires and smoldering five gallon propane tanks. If the 6,000 gallons of propane in the tanker truck and the thousand gallon propane tank engulfed in fire exploded half the town, the entire fire department, and she would die in a blaze of glory. Paramedic Holbert opens up the world of a paramedic providing 911 emergency service in the remote southwest where resources are limited, backup is only wishful thinking, and the job still has to be done. The term "Rural" takes on a different meaning when your service area covers 2,500 square miles and you are the only game in town.
Download or read book Paramedic written by Paul D. Shapiro and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1991 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Takes you behind the wheel, into the streets, and onto the front lines of emergency medicine"--Cover.
Download or read book American Sirens written by Kevin Hazzard and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America’s first paramedics and set the gold standard for emergency medicine around the world, only to have their story and their legacy erased—until now. In American Sirens, acclaimed journalist and paramedic Kevin Hazzard tells the dramatic story of how a group of young, undereducated Black men forged a new frontier of healthcare. He follows a rich cast of characters that includes John Moon, an orphan who found his calling as a paramedic; Peter Safar, the Nobel Prize-nominated physician who invented CPR and realized his vision for a trained ambulance service; and Nancy Caroline, the idealistic young doctor who turned a scrappy team into an international leader. At every turn, Freedom House battled racism—from the community, the police, and the government. Their job was grueling, the rules made up as they went along, their mandate nearly impossible—and yet despite the long odds and fierce opposition, they succeeded spectacularly. Never-before revealed in full, this is a rich and troubling hidden history of the Black origins of America’s paramedics, a special band of dedicated essential workers, who stand ready to serve day and night on the line between life and death for every one of us.
Download or read book Street Corners Strangers and Drugs written by Lynn Mayers and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No intense drama. No death-defying heroism. Reality seen from the journals of a real Las Vegas paramedic. An eye opening look into the world of a paramedic. What kind of patients do they see? What is their work day like? What kind of people are they? Street Corners, Strangers and Drugs shares interactions between patients and paramedics. It shares the emotions, joy, heartaches, trials and laughter.
Download or read book Confessions of a Trauma Junkie written by Sherry Jones Mayo and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mayo, an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Room Nurse, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer after Hurricane Katrina, details a progression from innocence to enlightened caregiver to burnout, providing personal and professional glimpses into each stage.
