Ambulance Man

Author : Brian Casey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732565128
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambulance Man written by Brian Casey and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride along with the calm and measured paramedics of 1980s ambulance work as they navigate speed and gore. Chronicled are the memories of a boy who followed the sirens' call into manhood utilizing grit and imagination to overcome hidden deficits. Ambulance Man is the sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, but always heartfelt story of a young man's entry into ambulance work. The police story has been widely written and portrayed, the firefighter unceasingly praised, yet it is the ambulance EMT or paramedic who suddenly appears at the side of the sick and injured, and remains a mystery to most. Experience the sights, sounds, strategies, and raw emotions of this uniquely intense and rewarding occupation.

Author : James McGrath Morris
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823845
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ambulance Drivers written by James McGrath Morris and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over, both men knew they had to write about it; they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life. Their friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s, as Hemingway's novels soared to success while Dos Passos penned the greatest antiwar novel of his generation, Three Soldiers. In war, Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a bitter public fight, fueled by money, jealousy, and lust. Rich in evocative detail -- from Paris cafes to the Austrian Alps, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West -- The Ambulance Drivers is a biography of a turbulent friendship between two of the century's greatest writers, and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys, unites and divides.

Author : Laura L. Sullivan
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502630575
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life as an Ambulance Driver in World War I written by Laura L. Sullivan and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working during World War I was full of danger and difficulty. Life as an ambulance driver was especially challenging. Readers learn what it was like to drive ambulances during the war, what challenges were faced, and how these men and women helped save many lives on the battlefield.

Author : Jane Stern
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1400048699
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Jonathan Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905512355
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ambulance Is on the Way written by Jonathan Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharp, bittersweet tales of middle-aged American men, in hot water with their women, with their sweet or streetwise kids, with their own consciences.

Author : Ryan Corbett Bell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786438118
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ambulance written by Ryan Corbett Bell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over several centuries the ambulance has evolved from horse-drawn wagons designed to remove wounded soldiers from the battlefield into high-speed emergency rooms on wheels, staffed by skilled professionals. This thorough history follows the ambulance through every phase, focusing not just on the vehicles but on their role within the developing medical systems they served, as well as the political, social and economic influences that have shaped their advancement. Topics include the critical role of police ambulances in the development of the first emergency medical services, the history of the ambulance intern, breakthroughs in ambulance design and function from the horse-drawn days to the present, notable women in ambulance development, and a fresh look at the first organized paramedic services. More than 275 photographs and other illustrations accompany the text.

Author : Karim Shamsi-Basha
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 198481379X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cat Man of Aleppo written by Karim Shamsi-Basha and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caldecott Honor-winning true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, who in the midst of the Syrian Civil War courageously offered safe haven to Aleppo's abandoned cats. Aleppo's city center no longer echoes with the rich, exciting sounds of copper-pot pounding and traditional sword sharpening. His neighborhood is empty--except for the many cats left behind. Alaa loves Aleppo, but when war comes his neighbors flee to safety, leaving their many pets behind. Alaa decides to stay--he can make a difference by driving an ambulance, carrying the sick and wounded to safety. One day he hears hungry cats calling out to him on his way home. They are lonely and scared, just like him. He feeds and pets them to let them know they are loved. The next day more cats come, and then even more! There are too many for Alaa to take care of on his own. Alaa has a big heart, but he will need help from others if he wants to keep all of his new friends safe.

Author : Andrea Zimmerman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1627795030
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire Engine Man written by Andrea Zimmerman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy imagines the work he will do and the safety gear he will wear when he becomes a fireman some day, as his younger brother first watches then joins him on the job.

Author : Kevin Hazzard
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306926083
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Richard Collingridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333147214
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ambulance Man written by Richard Collingridge and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: