By Scot Phelps
Emergency Medical Services never stop, 24-7, in every corner of the globe. Learn from these news stories about the trials and tribulations of paramedics, probably similar to your own, as they respond to calls for service for the silly, mundane, and violent.
Operations, personnel and system design
- Rising ambulance fees in Australia
- Scottish medics calls for new priority system for response times
- Number of ambulance staff leaving UK services doubles in five years
- Ambulance staff striking and demanding pay hike in India
- Japan considers charging for 911 ambulances
- Politicians want to stop ambulance ramping in Perth
Ambulance collisions
- Traffic chaos as ambulance becomes trapped under an archway in in the UK
- Driver, medic and patient killed in head-on ambulance collision outside St. Petersburg Russia.
- Man dies in Canadian ambulance accident
- Ambulance driver dies in Moroccan accident
- Ambulance driver dies after Krabi crash
On-the-job violence
- Australian medic knocked unconscious by patient
- UK medics under stress, take massive sick time
Video and audio take you on the road with paramedics
- Ambulances - South Africa
- Kabul Ambulance
- Auckland Ambulance Service 1998 Part 1
- Auckland Ambulance Service 1998 Part 2
News items curated by Scot Phelps, JD, MPH, Paramedic. Phelps is a Professor of Ambulance Science who teaches the Ambulance Science Fellowship Programs at the Emergency Management Academy.