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Rock Bottom

Peter Canning

We’re dispatched to an overdose on Ashley Street. I am in the fly car and a BLS crew is in the ambulance. I don’t see anyone on two passes, but then I hear the BLS unit radio they’ve found him. I have done many overdoses like this one of homeless people who were in fact down alleys and behind dumpsters.

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The Harms of Stigma

Peter Canning

They treated me like s**t the time I overdosed. One day I was dispatched to an overdose. I was in the paramedic fly car and a BLS crew was in the ambulance. I didn’t see anyone on two passes, but then I heard the BLS unit radio that they’d found the patient. You have just overdosed. You found him.”

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How to Become an EMT in New Jersey

Paramedic Training Spot

In fact, in 1927, the town of Belmar was one of the the first established volunteer ambulance services in the nation. Before this motion was passed to make the standard to have at least one EMT on a truck, there were no set rules as to what training you needed to ride on an ambulance; Rather, most agencies took anybody that was willing.

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