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Book excerpt: A quarter-century of a responder's emergency calls inspire 'Rescue 911'
A retired rescue captain looks back on a career of helping others and tells the stories of doing his best to make a difference
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Book excerpt: Save My Life School: A First Responder's Mental Health Journey
Paramedic Natalie Harris shares her experience with post-traumatic stress, overdose and addiction, stemming from a disturbing call
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How EMS agencies can prepare their communities to 'Stop the Bleed'
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Prehospital care experts stress the importance of the Stop the Bleed initiative, preparing bystanders to control severe hemorrhage and securing funding for a statewide program
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5 books recommended by EMS leaders during Pinnacle 2017
The books were used to illustrate key concepts, support the speaker's principles or to call on other leaders to be lifelong learners
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8 EMS-themed children's books
Next time you select a book for your child, consider these EMS-themed reads
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Top 9 public safety leadership books of 2016
These nine leaderships books have been voted among the best of 2016
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10 more books every paramedic should own
Book choices tend to be highly subjective; here's what our readers suggest you pick up next
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Doin' It With the Lights On: Exploits of a Paramedic
Author and paramedic Jim Stine Jr. discusses some of his shocking and rewarding EMS calls he has had over the last 37 years in his new book.
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Ghost of Christmas Present has holiday wisdom for an EMT
Read an excerpt from "Captain Scrooge and other holiday tales" which is a collection of life during the holidays as told by an EMT
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15 books for EMTs and paramedics
Looking for a gift, a weekend read, or a resource? Check out our recent favorites
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How terrorists target and attack health care facilities and personnel
"Terrorism & the Medical Environment" is designed to help save lives, money, property and medical professionals who are the victims and saviors of terrorist attacks
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Paramedics argue about making entry or waiting for the police
In this EMS novel excerpt one medic is willing to enter a dangerous scene because she doesn't want to see her husband, a cop, but her partner wants the opportunity for confrontation
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Wrestling with a patient to get the cop's gun back
A scene two EMS providers thought was "safe" turned out to be much worse than the terrible weather outside
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Book looks at addiction, treatment for troubled teens
Maia Szalavitz's "Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction," argues for a radical rethinking of addiction with a new emphasis on learning
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Paramedic receives book, TV deals for detective thriller
Daniel Cole was offered a six-figure contract for his series about a detective in the sights of a serial killer; he said his experience as a paramedic fed into his writing
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Paramedic, author describes his memoir
Author Kevin Hazzard discusses his decade as a paramedic for Atlanta's busiest hospital in his memoir "A Thousand Naked Strangers." Read an excerpt from "A Thousand Naked Strangers" here.
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