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Lights and Sirens

The Education of a Paramedic

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Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks - that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age 36, he enrolled in the "Harvard of paramedic schools": UCLA's Daniel Freeman paramedic program, long considered one of the best and most intense paramedic training programs in the world.

Few jobs can match the stress, trauma, and drama that a paramedic calls a typical day at the office, and few educational settings can match the pressure and competitiveness of paramedic school. Blending months of classroom instruction with ER rotations and a grueling field internship with the Los Angeles Fire Department, UCLA's paramedic program is like a mix of boot camp and med school. It would turn out to be the hardest thing Grange had ever done, but also the most transformational and inspiring.

An in-depth look at the trials and tragedies that paramedic students experience daily, Lights and Sirens is ultimately about the best part of humanity - people working together to help save a human life.

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this book gave me real insight into being a paramedic. how hard the course is and the preceptor ship with it challenges.

informative and interesting.

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I had listened to Kevin's book about his Wild Rescues and loved it...without realizing this was the same man!!! A great listen....and a great human!

Excellent example of perseverance...

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This book is written in a language that is understandable to the general as well as medical audience. I'm a radiologist and I enjoyed listening to this book. Looking forward to next books by this author.

Very interesting

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Very enjoyable book. I’d read his second book first! But did not detract from this. Give an super insight into the trading of a paramedic in the US.

Great read

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