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May 2023
58m 13s

Race Relations and the First Paramedics

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This episode of “Intention to Treat” tells the story of the Freedom House Ambulance Service — a group of Black laypeople in Pittsburgh who underwent intensive training to become the first paramedics in the United States. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2303614. 
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