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| List Price:$19.99 |
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| Edition: | 1st |
| Publisher: | Hachette Book Group |
| ISBN: | 0-306-92609-1 (0306926091) |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0-306-92609-9 (9780306926099) |
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Copyright: | 2024 |
| Publish Date: | 01/24 |
| Weight: | 0.67 Lbs. |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Subject Class: | C-H (Consumer Health) |
| Return Policy: | Non-Returnable. |
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| Discipline: | Hospitals | | NLM Class: | WX 215 | | LC Class: | RA645.6 | | Abstract: | Up until 1968, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. That all changed with the 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 legacy erased--until now. Born from the vision of a Nobel Prize-nominated physician, the needs of a country in pain, and the ashes of Pittsburgh's downturn in the 1960s, Freedom House brought together a group of young, uneducated Black men to forge a new frontier in health care. Their job was grueling, the rules made up as they went along, and their mandate nearly impossible: prove to a skeptical public and the politicians that paramedics were a noble and valuable endeavor and, most importantly, that they themselves were worthy professionals performing a crucial public service. Despite the long odds and attempts to shut them down, they succeeded spectacularly. In American Sirens, acclaimed journalist and paramedic Kevin Hazzard tells a dramatic story of heroes and villains, of brutal attempts to stifle hope, and the resilience of a community that fought back. 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 young doctor who turned a scrappy team into an international leader. At every turn they battled racism--from the community, the police, and the government. 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. |
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