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Rescue 471: A Paramedic's Stories
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Rescue 471: A Paramedic's Stories Mass market paperback - 2000

by Canning, Peter

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In taut, thrilling prose, a seasoned paramedic captures the rarely seen real world of emergency medicine--from a four-month-old baby who has stopped breathing to a 60-year-old woman with a strange abdominal mass that threatens to explode.

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Ballantine Books, 2000. Mass Market Paperback. New. 304 pages. 7.00x4.25x0.75 inches.
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  • Title Rescue 471: A Paramedic's Stories
  • Author Canning, Peter
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition 9th
  • Condition New
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0804118825
  • ISBN 9780804118828 / 0804118825
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.87 x 4.2 x 0.42 in (17.45 x 10.67 x 1.07 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Canning, Peter, Emergency medical technicians - Connecticut
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00190080
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the publisher

Peter Canning is a full-time paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut. A former speechwriter to Governor Lowell Weicker of Connecticut and top health aide whose duties included overseeing the emergency medical services system, Canning left his desk job in 1991 to become a paramedic on the city streets, a story chronicled in his first book--Paramedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop.

From the rear cover

TRUE LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMA

In taut, thrilling prose, Peter Canning has written a book that captures the rarely seen real world of emergency medicine. A seasoned paramedic who fights under enormous pressure to save lives, Canning trains new paramedics for the rigors of a nonstop, action-packed battle. From a four-month-old baby who has stopped breathing to a sixty-seven-year-old woman with a strange abdominal mass that threatens to explode -- these are gripping true stories from the "ER on the streets". In this exciting, often moving account, Canning tells a powerful story of camaraderie, selflessness, and courage as paramedics try to stand tall and human through both defeat and victory.

Media reviews

"THE STREET IS THE TOUGHEST PLACE TO WORK. . . . IT IS TRULY MEDICINE IN THE RAW--STABILIZE, LOAD, AND GO!"
--ECHO HERON
   Bestselling author of Intensive Care

About the author

Peter Canning is a full-time paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut. A former speechwriter to Governor Lowell Weicker of Connecticut and top health aide whose duties included overseeing the emergency medical services system, Canning left his desk job in 1991 to become a paramedic on the city streets, a story chronicled in his first book--Paramedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop.