6-7:15pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)
~ Ravitch Lecture ~
Phil Hallen
President Emeritus, Maurice Falk Foundation
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine
In
1968, the Freedom House Ambulance Service began offering pre-hospital care to
the Hill District and other neighborhoods in Pittsburgh where the police
wouldn't even do a "scoop and run" to take patients to the hospital.
These first paramedics not only provided transportation but also expert
pre-hospital medical care that became a model for the nation. After we watch WQED's documentary Freedom House Ambulance: The FIRST Responders, Mr. Hallen and clinician-historian Dr.
Edwards will discuss this seminal contribution of Black
Americans to modern healthcare.
Emblem from http://freedomhousedoc.com/
This lecture is free and open to public. Please email cfreynoldsmhs@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link. Donations toward the speakers' honoraria are gratefully appreciated.
The C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society thanks the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law for its generous support of the continuing relevance of medical history in our world.
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