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Teen Medics Save Lives |
| Section: LIFE / YOUTH |
| Author: Sherry Von Ohlsen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,579 Words, 14,827 Characters |
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Teenage voices linger in the halls at the Emergency Medical Service in Darien, Connecticut. Hand-drawn and colored with markers, the original twenty-two-year-old poster calls for teenagers, ages fourteen to eighteen, to do something important: Rescue lives. Another sign reads: Assume Nothing.
Sixty of the eighty members of the Darien Emergency Medical Service are teenagers under eighteen. The teens call themselves Posties. On this particular day, they sack out on the couch while the TV blares. Others cluster on the floor discussing their teachers. Some attempt homework before tossing in a five-dollar bill for a take-out dinner, soon to be brought in for the crews who will answer tonight's calls.
Their shift begins at 5:30 p.m. The team that will take out the first ambulance w...
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...on has responded to this call as she has hundreds of others over the last eight years. The kids, she asserts, "are naturally great teachers and they're great at caring for the patients. They can read blank faces and they know how to fill in those blanks. They are open to life in way adults often aren't." The teens from Post 53 have learned and teach that in finding others, they are found. vbcrlf
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