The Importance of Confidence in Emergency Rooms

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"I learned to be more confident in whatever abilities that I had," she says. "Once that confidence started building up and I felt more prepared to deal with any emergency, everything else kind of fell in place from that point on" She recalls one incident where a patient didn't want her to touch her or even take blood pressure. 'The supervisor at that time was not very happy with me'

As recently as 1965, if you had a medical emergency, the people who showed up at your door would be volunteer firefighters, police officers, or undertakers with a hearse. Today, the story of how a group of Black men from Pittsburgh changed that.

Kevin Hazzard’s book is American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics.

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