> that something as obvious and common as an ambulance They're not talking about ambulances. They're talking about paramedics. Here's the para: "The two men

> that something as obvious and common as an ambulance They're not talking about ambulances. They're talking about paramedics. Here's the para: "The two men weren’t doctors, and they weren’t nurses. And their strange uniforms weren’t hospital issued. Moon was witnessing the birth of a new profession—one that would go on to change the face of emergency medicine. The two men were some of the world’s first paramedics, and, like Moon, they were Black." Here's the fifth para: > As a result, emergency services were not there to provide treatment at the scene or even necessarily on the way to the hospital… they were just about getting you to the hospital as quickly as possible. It also wasn’t clear whose responsibility it was to rush to the scene of an accident. Oftentimes firefighters were the ones to respond, and they were expected to deal with health treatment themselves. In other areas, the responsibility for transporting patients often fell to local funeral homes. In many major cities, this crucial task fell to another municipal service that probably had even less business responding to medical emergencies: The police. Here's the wikipedia page on early ambo services, and history of pre-hosptial care: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramedic#Early_ambulance_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramedic#Early_ambulance_serv... > What am I to make of all the examples in the wiki article I linked? Those examples are about patient conveyance, not pre-hospital care. Those doctors are not providing pre-hospital care, they're getting the patient to hospital as fast as possible and then giving a hand-over. > Do they not count, because they used doctors and not paramedics? When we're talking about the first paramedics we do count paramedics and we don't count medics, because medics are medics, they're not paramedics, which is why we call them "medic", not "paramedic".