Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance Maddie Martinez No matter your skill or

No matter your skill or knowledge level

Galston argues that the defense of liberal democracy requires understanding the dark forces whose impact on political life liberal democratic institutions seek to mute: the emotions of fear

--David Sedaris

Named a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by Esquire

Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance Maddie Martinez No matter your skill orIntrospective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career. For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private notebooks with her confusion, humor, and anger toward the strange world of emergency street medicine. As her career on the ambulance progressed, she found herself taking notes on scraps of paper, the backs of gloves, and in the margins of EKG printouts. She