The Ambulance

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 : Fiona Watt
Publisher : Baby's Very First Books
ISBN 13 : 9781474981118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby's Very First Ambulance Book written by Fiona Watt and published by Baby's Very First Books. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a host of friendly animals as they respond to various emergencies. With sturdy pages and colourful working wheels, this book feels like a toy which babies can play with as well as following the story. The brightly coloured illustrations along with diecuts, shaped pages, holes and fingertrails combine to give babies lots to look at and explore. This delightful book is a very gentle introduction to the tasks faced by those that work in the emergency services. Other titles in the series include 9781409597131 Baby's Very First Tractor Book, 9781409597032 Baby's Very First Bus Book and 9781474953559 Baby's Very First Truck Book.

Author : Michelle Levine
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
ISBN 13 : 0822599236
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambulances written by Michelle Levine and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text describes how ambulances rush to emergencies to take hurt or sick people to the hospital, including how the lights and siren operate and where the emergency medical technicians store their equipment.

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 : James McGrath Morris
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823845
Total Pages : 288 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 288 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 : Les Pringle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407069411
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call the Ambulance! written by Les Pringle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploding pressure cookers, a thwarted wife's deadly revenge and transvestites in distress - manning an ambulance in the seventies kept you on your toes. Having survived the rites of passage as a probationer, Les Pringle now has to face up to the reality of life as an ambulance man in Thatcher's Britain. He does this with humour and fortitude - two qualities which are essential if he is to cope with cases ranging from the absurd to the heart rending. From attending murder scenes to delivering babies ... it's quite a life for Les, and one that he and his shift mates tread with warmth and humour in equal measure.

Author : Tim Foster
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0955691001
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abap the Ambulance in "Happy to Help!" written by Tim Foster and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Abap the Ambulance as he travels around the many sights and sounds of Hillview town. Journey with Abap past the supermarket, the train station, and other exciting places as he remembers the way to Granny Morgan's house!

Author : Edna Brooks
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465603751
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Khaki Girls Behind the Lines: Or Driving with the Ambulance Corps written by Edna Brooks and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ê"THERE!" was Joan's triumphant ejaculation as she hastily dashed an address across an envelope and closed her fountain pen with a snap. Picking up a letter she had just finished writing, a happy little smile curved her lips as she read: "Dear Captain and Friend: "Just because I am extravagantly fond of my good old roadster, I am going to pass it on to you. I could not be content to let anyone else have it. When I am in France, doing the work I have dreamed of doing for so long, I shall love to think of you as driving about the big town in 'our' car. Won't you please accept it as a token of my sincere admiration and affection for you? I know that you will becauseyou cannot fail to understand the spirit in which it is offered. You will find it waiting for you in front of headquarters. "When the war is over 'over there' and all's right with the world again, I shall hope to come back to the Corps. I am sure that even after peace comes the Liberty Motor Corps will find plenty to do, and I shall look forward to coming to Attention once more before my dear chief. "Until then, though widely separated, you will be often with me in thought. If I make good in the Ambulance Corps it will be because you showed me the way. So, you see, it's strictly 'up to me' to be a credit to 'mon Capitaine.'

Author : Paul Eaton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669890589
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dan Dan The Ambulance Man Meets Percy Bunn The Baker. written by Paul Eaton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-02-11 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a story about a Paramedic that treats sick people. It introduces young children to what is involved to the life of a paramedic.

Author : Sally Sutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406380859
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambulance, Ambulance! written by Sally Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reassuring, read-aloud exploration of the work of paramedics and ambulance crews. There's been a crash and the crew at the ambulance station jumps into action. Nee nar nee nar. They respond to the emergency call, attend to the injuries of a young boy who has fallen off his bike and then take him to the hospital for treatment.