{"id":31070,"date":"2020-07-20T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=31070"},"modified":"2020-07-20T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:32:00","slug":"the-fascinating-history-behind-the-invention-of-paramedics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2020\/07\/20\/the-fascinating-history-behind-the-invention-of-paramedics\/","title":{"rendered":"The fascinating history behind the invention of paramedics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know that the modern idea of paramedics \u2014 a special team of personnel with broad medical training who pick up the injured and bring them to hospital \u2014 began as a charitable effort in poor Black neighbourhoods in Philadelphia? I didn&#8217;t, until I read <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/episode\/freedom-house-ambulance-service\/\">this 99 Percent Invisible story<\/a> about Phil Hallen, a a former ambulance driver who worked with a community-driven program providing food to poor Black neighborhoods and got the idea to combine that with medical assistance to create mobile intensive-care units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;One day, Hallen came across an article in the local paper, about a Black-operated jobs training program based in the Hill District called Freedom House. The article described how Freedom House had rolled out a kind of mobile grocery store for Black neighborhoods, using trucks to bring fresh vegetables to people\u2019s doors.&nbsp; Hallen initially thought something similar could be done to provide medical transportation to the underserved Black communities of Pittsburgh.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/02\/51115225-600x433-1.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/51115225-600x433-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/51115225-600x433-1-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the modern idea of paramedics \u2014 a special team of personnel with broad medical training who pick up the injured and bring them to hospital \u2014 began as a charitable effort in poor Black neighbourhoods in Philadelphia? I didn&#8217;t, until I read this 99 Percent Invisible story about Phil Hallen, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2020\/07\/20\/the-fascinating-history-behind-the-invention-of-paramedics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The fascinating history behind the invention of paramedics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}