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The New EMT Survival Guide: The Unwritten Manual for a Career in EMS
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Publisher: James Mazza
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The textbooks will teach you the medicine. This teaches you everything else.
Nobody hands you a guide for what a career in Emergency Medical Services actually feels like from the inside. Not the clinical skills, the rest of it. What the job does to your body after years of lifting. What it costs the people who love you. What happens when you watch someone die on your second shift and still have to go back the next week.
The New EMT Survival Guide is not a textbook. It won't prepare you to pass a certification exam. It will prepare you for the career that starts after you do.
Written by James Mazza, Chief of EMS at Montclair Ambulance Unit and NAEMT EMS Advocate of the Year 2025, this is the honest, unfiltered account of what a career in emergency medical services actually asks of the people who choose it, drawn from nearly twenty years as a paramedic, EMT, and first responder in the field.
If you're considering EMS, read this before you decide. If you're already on your way, read this before your first shift. And if you've never worked a shift in your life but have ever wondered what the people who show up at three in the morning actually go through, this book is for you too.
Under 100 pages. Written to be finished in one sitting. Every page earned its place.
One early reader called it a Kitchen Confidential for Emergency Medicine.
50% of net profits from this book benefit Montclair Ambulance Unit, a nonprofit 911 agency serving Montclair and Cedar Grove, New Jersey.
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