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Errands of Mercy (1998)

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clip Ambo stress

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Clip description

While waiting for a call, paramedic Paul McMurtrie talks about the stress ambulance officers experience in the course of their work. He says that while officers can separate their emotions while at the scene, they can feel the effects later.

Curator’s notes

Interviewing the ambulance workers between jobs gives us a sense of how they are constantly interrupted by emergency calls.