What city had the first ambulance service in 1865?
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Yep.. as someone already said first..\n\nFirsts in U.S. Cities - \nFamous first City Date Ambulance service Cincinnati, Ohio
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probably the university hospital in cardiff (Heath hospital0
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My sister in law used to go to this guy at St. Michael's Hospital in Milwaukee, on 33rd and Villard streets. Try there...
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In 1893, the first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black Doctor. \n\nDr. Daniel Hale Williams completed the operation on a young man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital in Chicago with a stab wound.
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Try here:\n\nhttp://www.kean.edu/facilities/EMS.html
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This happened to me last December.  I wound up in ICU.  What to do about my disabled/non-driver husband, the house, getting around etc.  The Hospital I was in sent a Case Manager (an RN with Social Services training etc) to visit me in.  She really helped.  I could not believe the amount of available services in my area.  There are Catholic Charities, Jewish Chariles, Lutheran Charities,  none of whom care what (or if) your religion is.  There is a low/no fee medical or seniors transportation service.  The list went on and on.  If you have the $ or not, services are available.   Hopefully,  so are REAL friends!!
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Hmmm.. intresting question the first sucessful transfusion was performed by Dr.James Blundell in 1818. \n\n The irony you're refering to is an urban legend.\nDr. Charles Drew. is believed to have died from delayed access to emergency blood transfusion treatment because of his race
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/index.shtml
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THEY SAVE LIVES.  THEY ALSO ARE EYES AND EARS OF THE CITY. IF YOU WERE IN AN ACCIDENT WOULD IT NOT BE NICE IF AN AMBULANCE WAS THERE TO SAVE YOUR BUTT!!
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Taxi   -> a motor vehicle licensed to transport passengers in return for payment of a fare.\norigin ->early 20th cent.: abbrev. of taxicab or taximeter cab\ntaxicab\n    Horse-drawn for-hire hackney carriage services began\noperating in both Paris and London in the early 17th century. Royal proclamations in both cities regulated the number of carriages--the first example of taxicab regulation. In the 19th century, Hansom cabs largely replaced the older designs because of their improved speed and safety.\n\nAlthough battery-powered vehicles enjoyed a brief success in Paris, London, and New York in the 1890s, the 1891 invention by German Wilhelm Bruhn of the taximeter (the familiar mechanical and now often electronic device that calculates the fare in most taxis) ushered in the modern taxi. (The "taxi" in "taximeter" is related to the word "tax," or "rate.") The first modern meter-equipped taxi was the Daimler Victoria, built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1897; the first motorized taxi company began operating in Stuttgart the same year.\n\nPetrol powered taxis began operating in Paris in 1899, in London in 1903, and in New York in 1907. The New York taxis were imported from France by businessperson Harry N. Allen, who adapted the French word taxi-mètre and coined the word "taxicab" to describe the vehicles he was importing. In time, the shortened term "taxi" came into common usage. (Allen was also the first person to paint his taxis yellow, after learning that yellow is the colour most easily seen from a distance.)\n\n \nThe yellow taxicabs of New York City.Taxis proliferated around the world in the early 20th century. The first major innovation after the invention of the taximeter occurred in the late 1940s, when two-way radios first appeared in taxicabs. Radios enabled taxis and dispatch offices to communicate and serve customers more efficiently than previous methods, such as using callboxes. The next major innovation occurred in the 1980s, when computer assisted dispatching was first introduced.\n\nThere has generally been a legal struggle concerning the certification of motor vehicles to be taxis, which take much more wear than a private car does. In Britain, they were additionally required to meet stringent specifications, for example, as concerns turn radius, which resulted for a time in having only one make legally usable. In the US, in the 1930s the cabs were often DeSotos or Packards. General Motors offered a specialized vehicle for a time, named the General. The firm Checker came into existence then, and went out of business in the 1970s. Its cars were specially built to carry "double dates." But now New York City requires that all taxicabs be ordinary cars. They are usually large Fords. In the 1960s in Europe, Mercedes Benz and Peugeot offered diesel taxicabs. This form of engine is now quite common there\n\n\nTaxis around the world\n\nThe advent of Taxi Cabs in the State of Queensland began about thirty years before the turn of the 20th century. This of course was long before motorised vehicles; in fact, horse drawn taxis had been used in Europe in the early 1800's. Australia adopted the use of them once cities were established, and in the case of Queensland, Brisbane introduced the first horse drawn taxis, which plied through out the city area. These also included Hansom Cabs, a more elaborate type with a closed in cabin for the passengers, having two small front doors and glass windows and their driver sitting high at the back. This type of vehicle was a standard type used in England. Its use was confined mainly for upper class people; such as Luxury motor vehicles which are operated as hire cars nowadays.\n\nIt is interesting to note that Hansom Cabs were still being used in Brisbane until 1935, and were emanating from a rank outside the Supreme Court in George Street.\n\nMotor vehicle taxis were introduced into Australia not long after the
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Try this:\nhttp://www.floridahospital.org/locations/fhsouth/
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http://www.cinemaeye.com/index/movienews/more/1865/\n\ntry the link
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It depends. In larger cities, firefighters are usually paramedics and respond to medical calls as well as fires (especially when medical calls usually far out-number fire calls). It's sad, though, that paramedics who do not operate with fire departments are looked down upon. In smaller cities (such as the one I am a paramedic in), the fire department shows up on many calls just to assist. WE do ALL invasive procedures, most medical treatment (except when the fire dept. administers oxygen or immobilizes a trauma patient while they wait for our arrival), WE accompany each patient to the ER, and WE write the charts. However, when thank you notes are submitted to the newspaper, the paramedics are often ignored and the glorious "FIREFIGHTERS" are gratefully thanked. It's pathetic. Also pathetic is our pay-scale. We make far less than firefighters, but we do much more patient care than firefighters. Granted, we don't fight fires, but we work with the public much more, and we put up with a lot of b.s. from rude patients who have no money for a taxi, but need a ride to the hospital for a sore knee at 230am....solution: call an ambulance. It's ridiculous.
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any american red cross or fire stations
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_aid\n\nhttp://www.sja.org.uk/firstaid/info/\n Here are a couple, your local Red Cross or St. John's Ambulance offer hands on training that would be more useful.
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The most tramatizing was two months ago. January 9 to be exact. I woke up 7 that morning to say good-bye to my dad and his brother, they were going to Atlanta for my dads dr. appointment. I went back to my room and like 10 minutes later I look out side and my uncles car was still there. I went back out in the den and my dad was on the floor.His brother or my uncle was doing cpr on him, about 30 minutes later the fire rescue and parimedics showed up. They worked on him for another 30 minutes and shocked him a few times to get his heart beating again, but it didn't work. I believe he died before the ambulance even showed up, but they didn't call it till he was at the hospital at 9:00 am.
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What is SLC?  Do you mean Salt Lake City?  I heard they have a good medical hospital there.