Scott Eberhart has worked 911 emergency services for over thirty-eight years. Come inside his ambulance and experience the exhaustion, raw emotion, fall off the chair humor and desperation that comes with the job. This is what it’s like as a paramedic over the long haul.
‘In this business, you do learn degrees of dead. There is almost dead, sorta dead, and kinda dead. Those you can do something about.’
‘Rescue workers are not immune to human suffering; they just have to wait until the horror is finished.’
‘In the ambulance, he beat back death, standing up, without a seatbelt, at seventy miles an hour.’
‘Heroism is showing up for the person who has no one.’
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Table of Contents
Preface
It’s Strange….
Surf Rescue
Cleveland, Ohio
Chad Rayne
Kissing a Dead Guy
Scrawny Bryan
Keep ‘Em in Stitches
‘Wait! I’m Not In Charge!’
‘Yeah, But the View!’
The Cardiac
James Richards
Daryl Robert Preston
Gregg Stafford
Berwick Slader
If You Can Do It Better…
Dinner Time, Ambulance Style
Oops, ‘Sorry.’
Bad Weed
Christmas With The Eberharts
Three A.M.
The Bleed
Car Accident
The Cultural Divide
Tact
Christmas With The Eberharts
The Delivery
Epistaxis
Low Acuity
A Moment To Ponder
Christmas With The Eberharts
How Rude
Fire In The Building
Thoughts In My Head
SOB (Shortness of Breath)
Christmas With The Eberharts
The Removal
Two Worlds Entwined
Afterword
About The Author
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Scott Eberhart continues to work in emergency services after 38 years. He grew up in the private ambulance world, moved to the fire department, has worked on fire engines and trucks, and now finds the highest 911 users to make change and bring a smile. Scott is also lucky to have a wife and children who support and encourage his music habit. Scott’s goal is to be found in a coffee shop, in the corner, playing saxophone.