Paramedics
Annotation:This novel, follows the life of a young paramedic, Frank Pierce, who works in the desperate neighborhood of New York's Hell's Kitchen. In this fast-paced work, Frank and a variety of peculiar partners race from episode to episode in his ambulance, as the riveting course of events displays a sordid and, at times, absurd side to human injury and the people involved in saving lives. Ironically, as Frank frantically tries to capture this high every day, his personal life is left in shambles.
Annotation: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.
Place a Hold
Annotation:Paramedic Lauren Yates stumbles into a world of trouble the night she discovers a dead man in an inner city alley, for the killer lurks nearby. When the murderer threatens to make her life hell if she tells the police, she believes him – he's Thomas Werner, her sister's ex, and a very bad man indeed.
Annotation:Have you ever wondered what's going on inside the ambulance screaming past you during your rush-hour commute? Since 2003, Tom Reynolds (writing under an alias so as not to get sacked from his job), has kept a blog where he chronicles the day-in, day-out realities of his life on the job as an EMT with the London Ambulance Service.
Annotation:In this children's book, various types of emergencies and rescues (e.g., accidents,floods, fires, earthquakes) are described The book also includes information about the responsibilities of different types of emergency workers (e.g., firefighters, police officers, paramedics).
Annotation:Gunshot wounds, crack pipes and rotting corpses abound in this raw and fascinating novel about Harlem paramedics in the mid-1990s,
Annotation:Peter Webster is drawn to a woman he rescues at the scene of a one-car drunk driving accident. Webster is well intentioned, but alcoholic Sheila, with her dangerous history, could prove beyond his efforts to save her, though the two embark on an affair that evolves into marriage and parenthood with the birth of their daughter,
Annotation:In this dramatic account of one man's experience as an EMT, Peter Canning relives the nerve-racking seconds that can mean the difference between a patient's death and survival, as Canning struggles to make the right call, dispense the right medication, or keep a patient's heart beating long enough to reach the hospital.
Annotation:Discusses the work performed by paramedics and the skills and training needed to prepare for a career in this field.
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