{"product_id":"9781400048694","title":"Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eStern, Jane\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCrown\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4\/27\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe basis for the movie starring Kathy Bates, \u003ci\u003eAmbulance Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is an inspiring   story by a woman who found,  somewhat late in life, that “in helping others I learned   to help  myself.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression,   and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was   virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died   before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the   fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend   a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying   and severe claustrophobia. Yet, this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical   technician. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStern tells her story   with great humor and poignancy, creating a wonderful portrait of a middle-aged, Woody   Allen–ish woman who was “deeply and neurotically terrified of sick and dead people,”   but who went out into the world to save other people’s lives as a way of saving her   own. Her story begins with the boot camp of EMT training: 140 hours at the hands   of a dour ex-marine who took delight in presenting a veritable parade of amputations,   hideous deformities, and gross disasters. Jane—overweight and badly out of shape—had   to surmount physical challenges like carrying a 250-pound man seated in a chair down   a dark flight of stairs. After class she did rounds in the emergency room of a local   hospital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Each call Stern describes is a vignette   of human nature, often with a life in the balance. From an AIDS hospice to town drunks,   yuppie wife beaters to psychopaths, Jane comes to see the true nature and underlying   mysteries of a town she had called home for twenty years. Throughout the book we   follow her as she gets her sea legs, bonds with the firefighters   who become her colleagues, and eventually, comes to be known as Ambulance Girl.","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43365626773759,"sku":"9781400048694","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781400048694_s600x595.jpg?v=1775584400","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781400048694","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}