Review: Wild Rescues

 Wild Rescues:

A Paramedic’s Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

By Kevin Grange

Very good but very repetitive. Not the adventures—they’re all unique and insanely interesting—and not the training he undergoes or the people he meets. What’s repetitive is that every chapter or so he explains how wilderness medicine is different than the big city work he used to do, because,

-- it takes hours to get the patient to a hospital;

-- sometimes helicopters are grounded or unavilable and they have to tag-team ambulances;

-- the paramedics take on a lot more responsibility because hospitals and doctors are not available;

-- how inadequate he feels before each call;

…and probably some other topics I don’t remember. I just remember that every time I read a paragraph on the subjects above, I thought, “Didn’t I already read this?”

So if he had trimmed the repetition out and added more adventures, I would have been thrilled to the 5-star gills. But I still enjoyed it a lot.