Lights and Sirens

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A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program-and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles. Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks-that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age thirty-six, he enrolled in the "Harvard of paramedic schools"- UCLA's Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program, long considered one of the best and most intense paramedic training programs in the world. Few jobs can match the stress, trauma, and drama that a paramedic calls a typical day at the office, and few educational settings can match the pressure and competitiveness of paramedic school. Blending months of classroom instruction with ER rotations and a grueling field internship with the Los Angeles Fire Department, UCLA's paramedic program is like a mix of boot camp and med school. It would turn out to be the hardest thing Grange had ever done-but also the most transformational and inspiring. An in-depth look at the trials and tragedies that paramedic students experience daily, Lights and Sirens is ultimately about the best part of humanity-people working together to help save a human life.

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An insightful and tumultuous virtual journey that reveals the challenging rites of passage needed to become a paramedicYou will be inspired.Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, 17th Surgeon General of the United States

An authentic, compelling narrativeGrange is an excellent writer.Peter Canning, author ofParamedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine

As fast-paced and thrilling as a ride along in a speeding ambulance.Judy Melinek, M.D., co-author ofWorking Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies and the Making of a Medical Examiner

PowerfulA raw, yet intimate view of the making of a paramedic. Paul A. Ruggieri, M.D., author of Confessions of a Surgeon and The Cost of Cutting

Author Bio

Kevin Grange graduated from UCLA's Paramedic Education Program in 2011 and is an award-winning writer with the Society of American Travel Writers. His first book, Beneath Blossom Rain, recounts a twenty-four-day trek in the Himalayas, and he currently works as a paramedic with the National Park Service.