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by: Peter Canning  List Price: $24.00 Price: $15.68 You Save: $8.32 (35%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Edition: 1st Format: Bargain Price Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 306 Publication Date: August 31, 1997 Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: They live for the action, for the saves, for the streets, for each other. In a first person narrative as vivid as the blast of a siren, Paramedic tells the authentic American story of one man's experience as an EMT, and the dedication it takes to save lives. Peter Canning shocked his family and friends when he gave up a successful career as a speechwriter for the governor of Connecticut to become a paramedic. Making his way through a rigorous training period, overcoming his self-doubts and fear of making fatal mistakes, Canning went from a life of privilege to the life-and-death reality of the streets. In Paramedic, Canning relives the nerve-racking seconds that can mean the difference between a patient's death and survival, as he struggles--sometimes in the face of a hostile crowd or the glare of TV cameras--to make the right call, dispense the right medication, or keep a patient's heart beating long enough to reach the hospital. Dramatic, heart-felt, and exciting, Paramedic takes us into the pulsing center of a mobile ER. As Peter Canning tells his graphic, gripping war stories--of the lives he saved and lost, of the fear, the nightmares, and the constant, adrenaline-pumping thrill of action--we come away with an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a hero. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent first-hand book about the daily life of a paramedicThis book was very well-written and kept me interested from the first page to the last. Peter Canning became a paramedic after working for 12 years as a political aide and speechwriter, and this makes his perspective even more interesting. I highly recommend this book for any reader who is interested in finding out what it's really like to work as a paramedic. Also, medical professionals and social workers would gain a lot of understanding by reading this book. There are low-income ... Read More Rating: - EMT StudentThis book inspired me to enroll into EMT school and it prepared for my clinicals (I knew that not every 911 call was going to be a true emergency). Many lay people see the ambulance rushing through traffic, and say to themselves, "Man, those guys must have nothing but action-packed days!). Not so! If you're an EMT student, EMS provider or someone with education in the EMS field, you'll pick up the terminology in the book and you'll have fun reading the book. General public will have a hard time understanding ... Read More Rating: - All you may need, should be required reading in EMT school. As someone who went through EMT training myself, I picked up a group of random books on the subject from Amazon to get a personal take on the world of emergency medicine. This book truly sets itself apart. Apart from the writer's extraordinary honesty and willingness to admit fear, fault and doubt, these well crafted stories capture all the harsh and gratifying realities of the job. Canning leaves a Washington D.C. job that could have kept him comfortable in a six figure salary and answers a calling ... Read More Rating:  - Great Stories; Choppy BookThe medical stories in this book were definitely very shocking and moving. Canning throws in stories about other parts of his life, when he isn't a paramedic, but somehow ties most of it in to medicine. The only problem I had with the book is how it doesn't really flow - there are lots of short choppy stories, sorted under titled sections, but a lot of times, the order of the stories didn't seem to make sense, and it kind of bothered me. Canning does project a seemingly accurate picture of what it is like to be ... Read More Rating: - Introspective and humanistic"On the Front Lines of Medicine" explores a much more humanistic and introspective view of Paramedic work. His book is more of a confession than a narrative. It is in this confessional nature that he trancends the superficial stereotypes of paramedics as arrogant adrenaline junkies, and readily discloses the toll that EMS work has on its practitioners. In a way that not many books do, Canning describes the nuances and boredom, as well as the excitement and danger, in EMS. Once I started reading, I was ... Read More 
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