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Davis parked his ambulance and grabbed one of the team’s trauma bags, ready to patch up the injured man. His partner took along the team’s airway bag just in case. As Davis crouched down to talk to the man, he called on his training to make sure the patient was calm. “You have to be able to communicate with other people, you have to be able to talk to any- one,” said Davis later. “You cannot be shy at all.” The paramedic quickly saw that the man was not seriously injured. Davis found only some minor scratches and a bump on the man’s head. Davis and Armentrout also made sure the man did not hurt his neck. If they thought he had, they would have had to bring out a special piece of gear to keep his head from moving. However, when they saw that his neck and spine were not hurt, they moved on to other areas. As they looked, the man told Davis that he had felt faint just before he fell. “He was an older man, so we put him on a cardiac monitor, just to be sure he had not had some sort of heart-related incident to cause his

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