S6 E15 When The Mission Is Impossible with Guest Kevin Hazzard

About this episode

Kevin Hazzard discusses his experiences in emergency medicine and the legacy of Freedom House EMS.

Kevin Hazzard spent a decade running calls in the worst sections of Atlanta — and what he learned there is at the core of everything he's written since. Three books. One relentless refusal to let the people who run toward the worst of it go unwitnessed. He brought to light the buried legacy of Freedom House EMS — the Black men who invented modern paramedicine, set the gold standard for emergency medicine worldwide, and were then discarded from the story they authored. And then he took us 40,0...

People in this episode

Hosts: Lt. David Dachinger (Ret.), Dr. Stacy Raymond, Bonnie Rumilly, LCSW/EMT

Guest: Kevin Hazzard

Topics covered

• emergency medicine
• paramedicine
• mental health
• first responders
• historical legacy

Keywords

• emergency medicine
• paramedicine
• Atlanta
• Freedom House EMS
• first responders
• mental health
• historical legacy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Freedom House EMS

Places: Atlanta

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