>>109620217Something similar happened in America. For many years ambulances were basically hearses that picked people up and dropped them off. A lot of these deaths pre-hospital were very preventable which spawned a paper called "Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society" Sometimes we call this the White Paper and it was basically the start of EMS as we know it. A lot of it was based off the work of soldiers. Why were shot soldiers living and citizens in a car crash not? The soldier is getting patched up by his corpman. Hell, they were transfusing plasma in the field in WWII (You can see this in Band of Brothers).
Another big thing that made paramedicine popular in America was a show called Emergency. It came out in the 70s and serves a good time capsule as to what EMS was like back then. It made people want paramedics in their city because it's technically not an essential service everywhere (and it still isn't).
Okay sorry for my autism.
