Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance Maddie Martinez Take a step into the

Take a step into the American heritage

SHUFFLE THROUGH SNOWSTORMS LIKE A CHAMP

and even our broken systems

platters of tomatoes

--David Sedaris

Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance Maddie Martinez Take a step into theIntrospective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career. For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private notebooks with her confusion, humor, and anger toward the strange world of emergency street medicine. As her career on the ambulance progressed, she found herself taking notes on scraps of paper, the backs of gloves, and in the margins of EKG printouts. She