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study was done fairly quickly on critical
patients that were brought into the
hospital, and the numbers were crazy. It
found that volunteer fire department and
police were doing the wrong thing for
these patients something like 70 percent
of the time, and Freedom House was
doing the right thing 80 percent of the
time. There's no way to understate just
how radical and rapid that change was.
How was Freedom House received
by the public in Pittsburgh?
In their own primarily black neighborhoods,
it was up and down at first.
There was certainly skepticism. There
are stories that these guys tell of treating
a patient-and you know, all of us
paramedics have been there-where the
family members were like, 'What the
hell are you still doing here? I called you
to take them to the hospital, not for you
to sit here and play with them!' So they
had to overcome the public's ignorance
and skepticism about advanced medicine
being practiced in their homes. But
once the public got a handle on what
was happening, people in their neighborhood
were incredibly proud, and
they are incredibly grateful. Freedom
House became this really important
thing for people in the Hill District.
Freedom House's ambulances
also covered downtown
Pittsburgh, which was primarily
white. How did that go?
Not always well. There are many
stories of the Freedom House paramedics
essentially having to beg white
patients to allow them to treat them
because they don't want to be touched
by black men. It's a bewildering thing.
I can't imagine a world where my life
is in danger but I'm going to split hairs
over who the person is who's delivering
my care. But more importantly,
how you can recognize intellectually
that this service is working and it's
good, but then resist it emotionally
when they arrive at your door? I don't
know how you square that, but that
was the reaction they got from many
white Pittsburghers.
By 1974, Freedom House had
fallen on hard times financially,
and the city's new mayor
announced that he was cutting
off funding in favor of having the
police run emergency medical
calls. In a last-ditch effort to save
the program, Freedom House
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