 a top rated program for its entire production run (1972 - 1979), as well as in syndicated television reruns – even inspiring a Saturday morning cartoon series.
Mother, Jugs & Speed is a 1976 comedy film, starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, and Harvey Keitel. The film depicts a private ambulance company struggling to survive in Los Angeles, and, while not necessarily showing the profession in its' most flattering light and taking some real liberties for comedic value, provides a fairly honest illustration of the state of the ambulance industry just prior to its' professionalization as EMS.
Casualty is a long-running BBC television series, depicting the staff of the Accident and Emergency Department of the fictional Holby City Hospital, and the English paramedics who work with them. Provides an interesting, human, and realistic view of English paramedics. The show has been filmed on location in Bristol, England, and has run continuously since the mid 1980s, spinning off another series Holby City and a number of made for television films. It has been described as 'one of Britain's most beloved medical dramas'.
Paramedics is also the name of a show on the Discovery Health Channel, which details the life and work of emergency medical squads in major urban centers in the United States. It is also the name of a 1988 Comedy which highlighted the lighter side of EMS.
Paramedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine (1998), by Peter Canning, is an autobiographical account of a paramedic's first year on the job. Rescue 471: A Paramedic's Stories (2000) is the sequel.
Bringing Out the Dead (1999), directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Nicolas Cage is one of very few films about paramedics. The main character is paramedic Frank Pierce who works in New York's Hell's Kitchen. He's become burned out and haunted by visions of the people he's failed to save including a little girl. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Joe Connelly, a former New York City paramedic.
Into the Breach: A Year of Life and Death with EMS (2002) Book written by J.A. Karam is the true story of paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and heavy-rescue specialists fighting to control trauma and medical emergencies. Into the Breach offers an unusual opportunity to bear witness to unimaginable suffering, heroic stoicism, and the inventiveness of American EMS workers fighting to save lives.
Black Flies (2008) is a novel written by Shannon Burke, based on his experiences working as a paramedic in Harlem, New York City.
See also[change | edit source]
- Paramedics in Australia
- Paramedics in Canada
- Paramedics in France
- Paramedics in Germany
- Paramedics in the United States
- Paramedics in the United Kingdom
- National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians
- National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians
- Flight Paramedic
- Critical Care Emergency Medical Transport Program
References[change | edit source]
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