Paramedic : On the Front Lines of Medicine

Peter Canning shocked his household and pals when he gave up a profitable profession as a speechwriter for the governor of Connecticut to grow to be a paramedic. Making his method via a rigorous coaching interval, overcoming his self-doubts and worry of creating deadly errors, Canning went from a lifetime of privilege to the life-and-death actuality of the streets. In Paramedic, Canning relives the nerve-racking seconds that may imply the distinction between a affected person’s demise and survival, as he struggles – generally within the face of a hostile crowd or the glare of TV cameras – to make the fitting name, dispense the fitting treatment, or maintain a affected person’s coronary heart beating lengthy sufficient to achieve the hospital.