Into the Breach: A Year of Life and Death with EMS

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Summary: Wonderful.
Review: This is not Third Watch. Into the Breach a Year of Life and Death with EMS is a disturbing non-fiction descent into the world of the Emergency Medical Service in New Jersey. The author Jana Abrams Karam spent a year riding with New Jersey's EMS teams and her gripping stories from the streets of Newark bring to life the real and wrenching details of what it is like to be a member of the Emergency Medical Service in one of the poorest most violent cities in America. The author goes into great detail about the everyday reality of EMS where Paramedics and EMT's deal with shootings, suicides, child abuse, miscarriages, stabbings, and other horrifying scenes that are an everyday reality for the nations EMS workers. After reading this book I find Into the Breach is mandatory reading for everyone who wants to know the truth about life in the Emergency Medical Service.