Lou Jordan, Vice President of the National EMS Museum Foundation is interviewed at the NAEMSE Symposium, where the Museum had a portion of its collection of antique EMS equipment on display.
Lou discusses the current status of the museum, how it is achieving its Mission of .."memorializing and commemorating
Short clip from the movie "The Girl in White" (1952) featuring June Allyson loosely portraying the real life character, Dr. Emily Dunning, one of the first female physicians to make it through the NYC hospital system.
PART 1 Ride along with Medic 31X on a thoroughly dead night, where despite their best efforts to chase good calls in Coney Island and Bensonhurst, none can be found. This 30 minute show demonstrates how the most mundane calls can be made to look exciting by skillfull narrative and repetitive clip edits.
Also interviewed
Part 2 features interviews with former Local 2507 President George Engstrom, NYC EMS Executive Director James Kerr,Bob Morgan, current 2507 President Ritchie Gutwirth, James Page discussing problems with response time and fleet maintenance. Aired on WCBS New York City on January 16,1982
Next clip is introduction of
1972 Video documentary on the Jacksonville Fire Department and how it fared since becoming the first fire department in the nation to implement fire based delivery of Emergency Medical Services several years earlier.
This 1977 Video classic highlights the need for a professional Emergency Medical Service, by comparing the "skills" of the part time, gas station based "Economy Ambulance Service", and a neighboring community with a modern EMS system.
Making cameo appearances are a disguised Engine 51, and a Modular Ambulance
In 1849, four Sisters of Charity founded St. Vincent's as a 30-bed hospital
in a small brick house on 13th Street. St. Vincent's served the poor as one of
the few charity hospitals in New York City.
The flagship, and now last remaining hospital of the St.
Vincents Medical Catholic Medical
