Now here's a job.... Baghdad EMS.... jeesh!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

As War Ravages Baghdad, City’s Ambulance Workers Must Pick Up the Pieces

BAGHDAD — Each time emergency workers return to the Mansour district ambulance station after a run, they jot notes in a dog-eared logbook that doubles as a grim diary of life here in the capital.

Sept. 10, for example: bombing with two dead.

Or Sept. 29: woman shot in the abdomen.

Oct. 10: man with shrapnel wounds.

Ambulance workers have among the clearest views of Baghdad’s descent into chaos. As the city has disintegrated around them, they have been left to pick up the pieces. They are often overwhelmed, and have increasingly become targets themselves.

“These three years have been equal to 16 years as a paramedic,” said Ali Jasim, 38, before he set off on a convoy carrying medicine and other supplies to Balad, a town north of the capital that was the site of horrific sectarian bloodletting.

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/world/middleeast/06ambulance.html?ei=5094&en=47c03b45e14753d4&hp=&ex=1165467600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

Poor bastards.

[opihimoimoi]

1. The job for PTS dats for sure...horrific scenes and injuries will scar them for life...

There is a movie BRINGING BACK THE DEAD Nicolas Cage....he is a burnt out dude who wants to quit but his boss won't let him...good flick....sez a lot about those EMTs

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Let me tell you, as a former NYC EMS

paramedic, that movie is more true about the 80's in NYC EMS than people want to know.

[GreenZoneLT]

4. Bringing Out the Dead

Scorsese picture. Compared to Baghdad today, New York in the '80s was a Sunday school picnic. In Riverdale, Calif. In the '50s.

[moondust]

2. Can't wait for the TV series.

:sarcasm:

(It would probably be a hit in the U.S.)