Peter Canning

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Alzheimer’s Mortality Lowest for Taxi, Ambulance Drivers Some researchers out of Harvard Medical School did a study of over 443 occupations and found that taxi drivers and ambulance drivers had the lowest rates of dying from Alzheimer’s. Ambulance drivers.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

JULY 1, 2020

As paramedics, whilst we often take great offence at being called ambulance drivers, the question is, when it’s our turn to drive, what exactly is it that we are providing? Do we fully engage in shared patient care with our attending partner, or do we switch off so that we can simply drive the ambulance and take it easy?

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Paramedic Nat

MARCH 19, 2020

So much more than just “ambulance drivers”. Thank you for caring for your communities as paramedics with a multitude of advanced life-saving skills and medical directives…and so much more.

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Broken Paramedic

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Dear frontline ambulance colleagues, After 12 years of responding to 999 calls and subsequently watching from the sidelines as family and friends continue to do so, I am only too aware of the ever increasing pressures and the ongoing erosion of the ambulance clinicians’ lot. ” Ouch.

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NCOAE

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And they’re certainly not “Ambulance Drivers.” The NREMT itself started out with an “EMT-Ambulance” or “EMT-A,” later adding an “EMT-Non-Ambulance” designation. As a result of this confusing nomenclature, the NREMT came out with a new system in 2011 with the titles of: First Responder EMT Advanced EMT Paramedic.

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NCOAE

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

EMTs are not just “ambulance drivers,” although that’s certainly a critical part of their occupation. For EMTs and patients, an ambulance is more than transportation to the hospital. Many EMTs work on a 911 emergency response ambulance. Shifts most commonly are 12 or 24 hours. There are both paid and volunteer services.

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Ambulance Driver Files

APRIL 3, 2023

En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between is now available in hardcover! Remember, if you’d like personalized and signed copies of my books, click one of the book covers on the right sidebar!

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