Talking Trauma: Paramedics and Their Stories

Rating:
Summary: Tangherlini has no business here.
Review: While I ordinarily welcome authors into the world of EMS as a method to document what happens, I find it abhorrent what this author does with the stories shared by the medics in this book. First of all, the book is not very readable. It is written like a college sophomore majoring in psychology would write a term paper. First the author gives the medic's story, then he dissects it (bluntly) giving his interpretations of the medic's attitudes, prejudices, and presumably, what the had for breakfast on their first day of school in the eigth grade. The author is not that perceptive and doesn't understand the field. His negative portrayals of EMS and opining destroyed what could have been (yet another) interesting body of EMS lore.