Paramedics — Season 1, Episode 6: Double Dose
Reality • 45 min • 3 seasons, 37 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
Tampa: A street kid has been stabbed in the leg; A teen suffers a neck injury in and is pulled unconscious from a spring after a diving accident; A man suffers a concussion in a fender bender; A 36-year-old man has fallen 35 feet at a warehouse; A three-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has a pediatric seizure; A 21-year-old man wrecks after falling asleep at the wheel; A man in an area of town known as "The Box" is stabbed in a knife fight; A rancher has been gored by a bull.
About Paramedics
Paramedics was a medical-based television reality show that ran on TLC from 1999 to 2001 and now runs infrequently on Discovery Health Channel. A spin-off of Trauma: Life in the E.R., Paramedics followed the activities of teams of EMTs and paramedics in a number of large urban centers in the United States. The show had no regular cast; every week featured a different city and a different group of paramedics. Actor Michael McGlone narrated the series. Composer Chuck Hammer scored the series. The excitement as well as the occasional tedium of being a member of a paramedic team is evident, as cases ranging from life-and-death to broken wrists to false calls are all featured. The show differed from Trauma: Life in the E.R. in that it did not show surgeries and hospital discharges. Instead, it focused on the importance of a paramedic's immediate care and social skills in dealing with a variety of people.