Freedom House Ambulance Service
A brief glance at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_the_ambulance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_the_ambulance</a> shows this wasn&#x27;t even close to the first ambulance service, and I don&#x27;t understand how this myth could have started. Using a strict definition of ambulance and paramedic, they&#x27;re predated by at least a century:<p><i>Edward Dalton, a former surgeon in the Union Army, was charged with creating a hospital in lower New York; he started an ambulance service to bring the patients to the hospital faster and in more comfort, a service which started in 1869. These ambulances carried medical equipment, such as splints, a stomach pump, morphine, and brandy, reflecting contemporary medicine. [..] For the first week of their operation, the ambulances were crewed by the hospital&#x27;s house-staff, after which the hospital hired Drs. Duncan Lee and Robert Taylor as full-time ambulance surgeons; [..] Shortly before World War II, then, a modern ambulance carried advanced medical equipment, was staffed by a physician, and was dispatched by radio.</i>