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She calls the paramedics on the Fire Department, "The Boys". As an RN in a major Los Angeles hospital for 36 years, I wondered if that was what all the nurses called them as they wheeled sick and bleeding patients into the Emergency Room. But that was back in the day...back in the day when she could think fast and move quickly to insert breathing tubes, start multiple IVs and soothe scared children with her cold, soothing, efficient hands. That night I held one of her cold hands as one of "the boys" held the oxygen mask to her face. She looked so little on that gurney, so small on the trea...
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