There was a time when calling an ambulance didn't mean medical care was coming to you. It meant transportation was coming to take you to medical care.

In this episode of All In. Always., we trace the evolution of EMS from early casualty evacuation and ambulance transportation to the modern EMTs and paramedics who bring emergency medicine directly to the patient.

We follow the lessons learned on the battlefield, the problems exposed by America's highway death crisis, the landmark 1966 Accidental Death and Disability report, the birth of modern EMT training, and the pioneering work of Pittsburgh's Freedom House Ambulance Service. From there, we look at the rise of paramedicine, medical control, 911, trauma systems, and the expansion of emergency medicine into the air through helicopters and fixed-wing critical-care transport.

It's a story about much more than the ambulance.

It's the story of how emergency care moved out of the hospital and into the street—and how the people answering the call became highly trained medical professionals capable of beginning lifesaving treatment almost anywhere.

From “put them in the back and drive” to sophisticated prehospital medicine, this is the history of EMS.

🚑 If you're an EMT, paramedic, flight medic, dispatcher, or part of the EMS community, tell me what brought you into the profession.

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