Rescue 471
a paramedic's stories
$32.89
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2000
Summary
Rescue 471: Tales from the Front Lines of Emergency Medicine
In taut, thrilling prose, Peter Canning 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 st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780804118828 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0804118825 |
| Author: | Peter Canning, Copyright Paperback Collection |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 173mm x 107mm x 20mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“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
“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
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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