The New Orleans Advocate
NEW ORLEANS — Racing against time is Chad Singletary’s job. His office is an ambulance; his clients are always in a hurry. But on a recent run, the 34-year-old paramedic had no idea he was driving not only his patient, but also himself, to the hospital.
Toward the end of Singletary’s shift on a recent Monday, a 911 call came in. Singletary and his partner Clifford Spears, an emergency medical technician basic, stabilized the patient and were en route when Singletary began to experience double vision. He dismissed his vision problem, and once his patient was being processed for admission, Singletary started back to the ambulance to continue his shift.
But a nurse at the hospital intervened.
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