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29. How to Save a Stranger’s Heart

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Advanced Life Support Ambulances Save Lives

Proce found evidence that the patients who received basic life support ambulances actually did better than those who got more advanced care. Proce interviewed dozens of e m s agencies to try to get a fuller picture of how exactly ambulances were dispatched. She also found that patience with strokes and major trama did better when a basic ambulance was despatched. For most people, this should be surprising. There are few possible explanations for these findings.

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