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NYC's paramedics are stretched so thin by the coronavirus that they are told to leave cardiac arrest sufferers at home if they can't get a pulse at the scene
The coronavirus outbreak has left New York City's ambulance services overwhelmed, causing a new…
Ashley Collman
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'My reply to you is bite me': An entire Texas fire department quit after a dispute with city officials boiled over
Pinehurst's ex-fire chief accused its city administrator of yanking firefighters from a slew of med…
Rhea Mahbubani
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First responders say years of low pay and chronic turnover have put coronavirus patients' lives at additional risk during the pandemic: 'We're screaming for help'
EMTs and paramedics say there's a potentially deadly lack of experience in their ranks as they cont…
Dave Mosher,Rhea Mahbubani
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An EMT labor shortage might mean you have to wait longer after calling 911, report says
NBC News reports that the already short-staffed EMT industry has seen a bigger labor crunch during …
Juliana Kaplan
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Emergency-response technology with a 5G upgrade is having an impact in places like hurricane-battered Florida
Changes to the technology used in disaster response will provide first responders and disaster mana…
Clara McMichael
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The world's first vending machine for COVID-19 tests. It removes the need for up to five medical workers, scientists claim.
A vending machine that issues COVID-19 tests and stores the samples has been installed outside a ho…
Joshua Zitser
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Suicide is killing frontline medical workers, but mental health experts say the situation is far from hopeless
Medical workers face grueling workloads, unprecedented stress, and steep death counts during the pa…
Rhea Mahbubani,Dave Mosher
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'This is like 9/11 every single day': New York's emergency responders say they're getting up to 75% more calls than normal - and falling ill themselves
Patients with coronavirus can have difficulty breathing because their lungs fill with fluid. This s…
Rhea Mahbubani,Rhea Mahbubani…
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The 7-year-old migrant girl who died in Border Patrol custody received medical care 90 minutes after first showing symptoms
"At this time, the Agents notified the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station to prepare to receive the ch…
Michelle Mark
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Here's What It Will Take For The Marlboro Of Marijuana To Emerge
Despite the boom, no big force has yet emerged. Even Colorado's biggest retail chains, such as LivW…
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Here's The Crazy Amount Of Gear Military Medics Carry Every Day In Afghanistan
Before setting foot in Afghanistan he went through rigorous training to include 14 weeks of basic t…
Paul Szoldra
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Marine Builds Mighty Force of Skilled Emergency Volunteers - All Vets - To Combat Global Disasters
"I saw the Haiti earthquake, and sprung to action," the Iowa-born ex-scout sniper, who deployed to …
Armin Rosen
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4 Alaska Airlines flight attendants were taken to hospital after reporting an 'unidentifiable odor' that caused plane to divert
Honolulu EMS said that the flight attendants had shown symptoms of "nausea and disturbed coordinati…
Rebecca Rommen,Nathan Rennolds
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Judalon Smyth was involved in the Lyle and Erik Menendez murder trial, as seen in Netflix's 'Monsters' season two. Here's what happened to her.
"Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" about two brothers who murdered their parents in the '…
Eammon Jacobs
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Nepal just suffered another fatal plane crash. Its aviation safety record is so poor that all its airlines are banned from flying to most of Europe.
A Saurya Airlines flight due to travel to Pokhara crashed during takeoff in Kathmandu, killing 18 o…
Nora Redmond
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I broke away from my traditional Amish community. Here's what grabbed me most in the modern world — and what I miss.
Daniel Beiler grew up in an Old Order Amish community. After leaving he embraced cars, planes, and …
Mia Jankowicz
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I take my wife and 5 kids with me to war zones as a crisis volunteer. People think I'm crazy, but we work as a family.
Daniel Beiler left an Amish community to help others. He's volunteered in war zones including Iraq …
Mia Jankowicz
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My identical twin and I needed open heart surgery on the same day. Doctors had to color-code us to tell us apart.
Twins Pablo and Julio Delcid were told they needed open heart surgery related to Marfan syndrome th…
Kelly Burch
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Amazon pushing injured warehouse employees to keep working says a report by Wired
First-aid clinics at Amazon warehouses are directing injured employees to get back on the job, risk…
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My baby needed 6 blood transfusions while in the womb. The postpartum depression didn't hit me until I knew he was OK months later.
Rh incompatibility in pregnancy led to Courtney Yeager's postpartum depression: Her son needed 6 bl…