Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic

Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks-that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age thirty-six, he enrolled in the "Harvard of paramedic schools": UCLA's Daniel Freeman paramedic program, long considered one of the best and most intense paramedic training programs in the world.



Few jobs can match the stress, trauma, and drama that a paramedic calls a typical day at the office, and few educa...