Why our forgotten history of emergency medicine can teach us about how hard it is to change medical culture
I stumbled across Kevin Hazzard’s book “American Sirens” after listening to the 99% Invisible podcast episode on the Freedom House Ambulance Service. It was an excellent stumble. Can you even imagine a time before ambulances, CPR, emergency medicine? When the assumption about emergencies was that patients had to be moved as fast as possible to…