Rescue 471: A Paramedic's Stories

by Peter Canning

Overview

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." An 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804118828
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/04/2000
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	515,645
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.81(h) x 0.80(d)

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.

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Editorial 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

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