A paramedic, police officer, and firefighter attend to an injured man at a construction site where a covered walkway collapsed, injuring at least 16 pedestrians in downtown San Diego Thursday. Full Story (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
What happens when an entire profession has physical testing standards that are off base? What happens when we breed a culture of test takers with no application skills? In public safety, we have been led down a path that has inadvertently been designed to hurt us.
Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant.
