David Sofi

After the Ambulance Stops (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Unit Five, County, emergency traffic." My heart raced. I don't remember the details of my first call on the ambulance. I do remember the excitement as the alarm in our station rang. Someone needed me and I was equipped to handle their emergency.

Fifty-one years earlier I wasn't equipped to handle the emergency that exploded around me, that killed the little sister I couldn't save. I vowed then I would never let Death take the one I was caring for, He would have to take me first.

If I don't beat Death on this call, my patient dies. I cannot allow that to happen. Ever.

I had been trying to save lives for almost sixty years. Here I was about to climb into an ambulance for the first time as an EMT, part of a two-person team whose sole purpose was to beat death. To get patients from whereever we found them to an emergency room, and to get them there alive.

In one way or another, every EMT thought of death as the enemy. I could see death as a physical shadow; a shadow I could feel, that would raise goosebumps on my arms and the back of my neck. I named it Death.

Experience for yourself what it's like to be a crew member on an ambulance whose only role was to respond to 911 emergencies.

You can probably imagine what it feels like when we beat Death. What happens to us when we don't?

When you ride with me in the pages of this little book, you'll be riding along with a recipient of the Public Safety Administration's Coin of Excellence, awarded for "extraordinary efforts in Public Safety.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Sofi
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781734655520
• Artikelnr.: 64188465

Autorenporträt

David Sofi began his professional journey as a pharmaceutical executive, where he championed the development of an experimental drug undergoing U.S. clinical trials. That drugNolvadex (tamoxifen)became the most successful treatment of its time for preventing and fighting breast cancer.

David then embarked on a consulting career, advising government agencies and corporations on high-stakes challenges. In one of his most notable assignments, he led a daring takeover of a company owned by President George H. W. Bush's nephew, acting on behalf of a Japanese investor. When the investor was later revealed to be fronting a money-laundering scheme, David chose principle over profit, working with the FBI to bring the truth to light.

His third career took a more human-centered turn, as he joined his wife in her Ropes Course training business. Together, they designed programs that strengthened teamwork for corporations and government agencies, and offered therapeutic and recreational experiences for individuals.

Relocating from California to South Carolina, David entered his fourth career. He served as an NGO tactical commander charged with protecting a facility that manufactured nuclear fuel rods. Cross-trained as an EMT, he discovered his calling in emergency medicine, ultimately becoming a Lexington County paramedic. For more than a decade, he responded to countless 911 calls, eventually serving as paramedic crew chief before retiring.

Today, David is a widower raising his special needs great-granddaughter in their historic Lexington, South Carolina homea home that Sherman's army once tried, and failed, to burn. A cancer survivor and lifelong caregiver, he writes from that home, drawing on the full range of his extraordinary experiences.

Advocating for his granddaughter over a 14-year journey through the public school system, David earned a paralegal diploma specifically to fight for her federally guaranteed right to a free education. His first book guides parents in navigating special education law. His second bookthe one you now holdshares the lessons, insights, and stories gathered from a lifetime of service, from earning his Boy Scout first aid merit badge to leading paramedic crews in life-or-death situations.