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“After 10 years in Emergency Medical Services, I realized how important touching, listening, and loving are in saving lives,” said Pat Ivey, guest speaker at the Rappahannock-Rapidan Emergency Medical Services Council's annual dinner and awards on July 28 at the Warrenton Volunteer Rescue Squad Building.
Pat Ivey joined the Lake of the Woods Rescue Squad in 1981, finished the EMT course in 1982, qualified as a Cardiac-Tech in 1984 and in 1988, became an EMT instructor. She is the captain and training officer of the squad and is scheduled to give pre-hospital courses in other States.
She described some of the situations where patients were brought in the hospital and left without a word of comfort or touch. She felt that where there is no kindness that equals no care. Nursing skills are fine but caring hands are just as important.
“Among calls I remember most showed the importance of bonding,” Ms. Ivey continued, “One Christmas morning, we had a girl crying for her doll while on her way to the hospital. I gave her the doll I had planned to give my child. It eased her lone
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