An emergency medical technician (EMT) is a medical professional who gives emergency care to people outside of or on the way to the hospital. They can give basic medical and first-aid care until a ...

First year residents in emergency departments around the United States have a grueling schedule. They have already suffered through four years of medical school, internship, and their residency is the ...

The Charlotte Fire Department has reached an agreement with MEDIC to improve emergency medical services in Mecklenburg County. The agreement promises to see faster response times, increased staffing ...

Lindsey Kaczmarek gets called an ambulance driver more often than she gets called a paramedic. “That’s absolutely not what I do,” she told me. What she does do is show up when someone needs medical ...

One evening last December, Tieqiao Zhang felt severe stomach pain. After it subsided later that night, he thought it might be food poisoning. When the pain returned the next morning, Zhang realized ...

“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm.” Growing up, whenever we were faced with a challenge, my father used to repeat that old idiom, reminding us that we were perfectly ...

FORT LEE, Va. (May 11, 2017) -- Fellow workers describe fifth-generation firefighter Stephen Steele Jr. as "one of the best emergency medics at Fort Lee." Setting aside the hard-to-overlook fact that ...

There are many different types of personal emergency response system devices on the market. See our picks and consider which might work best for you or a loved one. Also known as personal emergency ...