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Emergency Care By Ambulance Crews Moves Away From Origins As 'Horizontal Taxicabs'
EMS crews today are better equipped than ever for the worst kinds of emergencies.
There鈥檚 a revolution taking place in emergency medical services, and for many, it could be life changing.聽From the increasingly sophisticated equipment they carry and the new lifesaving techniques they use, to the changing roles they play in some communities鈥攑roviding preventive care and monitoring patients at home鈥攁mbulance crews today are hardly recognizable from their origins as 鈥渉orizontal taxicabs.鈥 (Landro, 9/25)
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