Bandage, sort, and hustle : ambulance crews on the front lines of urban suffering /

What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critically ill and injured. This is not an incorrect description, but it is incomplete. Drawing on field observations, medical records, and his own experience...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seim, Josh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland : University of California Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • People Work
  • Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers
  • Feeling the Ambulance
  • The Fix-Up Workers
  • The Cleanup Workers
  • Burden Shuffling
  • The Barn
  • Supervision
  • Payback.