The Doctor Who Refused To Wait

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About This Episode

In 1793, the French Revolution burned across Europe. Amid the chaos, a young surgeon named Dominique Jean Larrey refuses to stand idle as wounded soldiers bleed and die where they fall. Against orders and tradition, he builds a system that will change the fate of the injured forever... a flying ambulance that brings care to the battlefield itself. 

Through Larrey’s defiance and innovation, Past Medical History: The Story of EMS explores the birth of organized emergency medicine, where compassion met ingenuity, and where the first principles of triage were forged in the smoke and fire of war. 

This is where mercy began to move.