{"id":19918,"date":"2015-06-30T17:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T10:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-do-i-become-a-paramedic\/"},"modified":"2016-07-16T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T10:45:05","slug":"how-do-i-become-a-paramedic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-do-i-become-a-paramedic\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I become \u2026 a paramedic"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThere\u2019s no set career route, but the ability to empathise and be adaptable are paramount in a job in which you never know what will happen nextOn a zebra crossing one November night, Lynsey Grant saved my mother\u2019s life. The paramedic was on secondment with the London Air Ambulance when she was dispatched across London to treat a woman who had been run over while crossing the road on her way home from work. The casualty was not expected to survive. Eighteen months on, thanks to the skills of Grant and her team she is home from hospital \u2013 disabled but, against all the odds, alive.It\u2019s a night Grant remembers with emotion, despite the myriad patients she has helped since then. \u201cYou can deal with really traumatic cases, but sometimes the things that upset you aren\u2019t what you expect \u2013 it might be an elderly lady who has been assaulted or someone who is so grateful it really moves you,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you get to the scene you are in clinical mode and don\u2019t have time to think too much about the person lying there, but then later you might see their shoes on the road or a handbag with a make-up case inside and it really gets you that that was someone\u2019s son or wife who got up that morning with no idea of what was about to happen to them. However many incidents you attend you never lose the sense of the human element.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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