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As hospital backlogs grow, paramedics struggle to deliver timely care

Paramedics Colin Waterhouse and Josh Picknell are in their ambulance in Ottawa on a Friday afternoon when the call comes in: A Code 4, which means they need to get there fast.  With lights flashing and sirens blaring, they race to the call’s address and assess the patient; he needs …

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Paramedics say N.S. mass shooting left lasting trauma but few changes at work

It is the children’s frankness that has stayed with paramedics Melanie Lowe and Jeff Aucoin.  The pair picked up kids whose parents had been killed in Portapique, N.S., the night of April 18, 2020.  The children were likely in shock and could not yet fully understand what had just happened to them …

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