#paramedic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #paramedic, aggregated by home.social.
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Taxi Drivers Rarely Die Of Alzheimer’s – How Complex Mental Maps And Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain [why knowing your way around might help you stay sharp]
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https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082194 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.070039597 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-018-0031-x <-- shared paper
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https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing/learn-the-knowledge-of-london <-- details of @Transport for London’s ‘The Knowledge’ details
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https://youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak?si=X1xXcysZF2LayFkx <-- shared video, ‘The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets | The [London] Knowledge - The World's Toughest Taxi Test’
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H/T @ Jennifer Psillas, GISP | GIS Project Manager at City of Tucson Parks and Recreation
“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S…
Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall.
This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs. The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn’t seem to experience a similar advantage.
Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.
In one landmark 2000 study [link above], neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years…”
#spatialnavigation #orientation #mental #acuity #taxi #ambulance #paramedic #TheKnowledge #London #UK #Alzheimer #mapping #mentalmaps #spatialmapping #navigation #spatialreasoning #brain #hippocampus #brainhealth #death #mortality #disease #publichealth #scans #occupation #job -
Iran Conflict: Food Sector’s 8 Biggest Casualties
Amid …
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #1940sstyle #americanculture #Americanflag #ArmedForces #army #ArmySoldier #breakingnews #carrying #casualty #dead #deadbody #Death #dusk #flag #FourthofJuly #friendship #heroes #honor #horizontal #infantry #Iran #men #Military #nature #night #outdoors #paramedic #patriotism #people #respect #rifle #sand #storm #threepeople #USmilitary #usveteran'sday #USA #veteran #War #wound
https://www.newsbeep.com/628828/ -
#Israel Killed Over a Dozen Lebanese Paramedics in Three Days, Now Claiming That #Ambulances Are “Hezbollah” Targets
Among the most targeted groups of Israel’s expanded war on #Lebanon have been #medical workers. #Hezbollah’s Islamic Health Authority has been the hardest hit.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-medical-workers-paramedics-israel-targeted-ambulances-hezbollah-islamic-health-authorityfrom #DropSiteNews
March 16, 2026BEIRUT, LEBANON—In early October 2025, #Lebanese #paramedic Haj Qassem Sultan stood outside Marjayoun Government Hospital in southern Lebanon and addressed Lebanese TV.
“Our message is clear. Even if we are killed one by one, we will not abandon our duty,” he said. “We will continue to serve Khiam and Marjayoun and Al-Taybeh and Debbine and all of our sacred land.”
He was attending a memorial for seven of his colleagues who were killed...
On Friday, Sultan was killed in another Israeli strike on an Islamic Health Authority (IHA) medical center in Burj Qalaouiyah...
#IsraelOutOfLebanon
#NoWarWithIran
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Swansea ambulance manager honoured in King’s New Year Honours as Welsh Ambulance Service staff recognised
Locality Manager Cath John, who began her career in 1995, has been awarded the King’s Ambulance Service Medal (KAM) for distinguished service. Emergency Ambulance Practitioner Nigel Jones and Operational Team Leader Dean Caldwell have both been appointed MBE for their voluntary and charitable work.
Welsh Ambulance Service Chief Executive Emma Wood said the trio represented the very best of the service.
Emma Wood said:
“We’re incredibly proud of colleagues who go that extra mile for patients and their communities. These awards recognise the hard work and dedication given by Nigel, Dean and Cath over the years.”
Swansea’s Cath John receives King’s Ambulance Service Medal
Cath, who is based in Swansea, started out in non‑emergency patient transport before qualifying as an Emergency Medical Technician in 1999 and later as a Paramedic in 2004. She spent 11 years on the frontline before moving into leadership roles, including Clinical Team Leader and Operations Manager during the Covid‑19 pandemic.
She became a Locality Manager in 2021.
Cath John said:
“I’ve been with the Welsh Ambulance Service for over 30 years and I love what I do. Working here has given me so many opportunities and allowed me to work alongside some really special and dedicated people.”
Cath, 54, only discovered she was receiving the KAM when she returned from annual leave and spotted the notification buried in her inbox.
Cath John said:
“At first I didn’t know whether it was real… it only sank in when I saw my name on the official list.”
MBE for volunteer who has helped disaster zones across the world
MBE recipient Nigel Jones pictured during his humanitarian work with REACT, supporting disaster‑hit communities.
(Image: Welsh Ambulance Service)Emergency Ambulance Practitioner Nigel Jones, from Monmouthshire, has spent decades volunteering alongside his full‑time work — from supporting veterans and mountain rescue teams to deploying with humanitarian charity REACT in disaster‑hit regions.
His voluntary work has taken him from UK Covid Nightingale hospitals to bush fires in Australia, earthquake zones in Turkey and two deployments to Ukraine.
He was volunteering in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa when he learned he had been awarded an MBE.
Nigel Jones said:
“It was a complete surprise… I never began volunteering to get recognition, but it’s a tremendous feeling to be considered in the King’s New Year Honours.”
Nigel has also completed ten marathons for charity, raising more than £10,000.
Third honour for long‑serving community volunteer
Operational Team Leader Dean Caldwell, awarded an MBE for decades of voluntary and charitable service across South Wales.
(Image: Welsh Ambulance Service)Operational Team Leader Dean Caldwell has also been appointed MBE for decades of voluntary service across South Wales — including years with Bro Radio, the RNLI at Barry Dock, HM Coastguard Search & Rescue, and Welsh Amateur Boxing.
Dean Caldwell said:
“I am truly honoured and overwhelmed. Each role has allowed me to contribute to the wellbeing and safety of others, and I accept this MBE with immense pride.”
National praise for “the very best of Britain”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer praised all those recognised in this year’s list.
The Prime Minister said:
“This year’s Honours list celebrates the very best of Britain – people who put the common good ahead of themselves to strengthen communities and change lives.”
More New Year Honours stories
Carmarthen nurse ‘bowled over’ with MBE honour
A Carmarthen nurse says she is overwhelmed after being recognised in the New Year Honours.The King and I: Mike’s MBE for volunteer service
A lifelong volunteer from South Wales reflects on receiving an MBE for community service.Gower College Swansea employee receives MBE
A criminology specialist at Gower College Swansea is honoured for her work studying gangs.Llanelli-born Specsavers co-founder awarded CBE
#EmergencyMedicalTechnician #EMT #HMKingCharlesIII #KAM #KierStarmer #KingSAmbulanceServiceMedal #MBE #NewYearsHonours #paramedic #PrimeMinister #WalesAmbulanceService #WelshAmbulanceServiceTrust
Specsavers co-founder Dame Mary Perkins is recognised with a CBE for services to business. -
Code 3 – Watch Rainn Wilson, Lil Rel Howery, and Aimee Carrero in the trailer for the new paramedic action dramedy https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/08/06/code-3-watch-rainn-wilson-lil-rel-howery-and-aimee-carrero-in-the-trailer-for-the-new-paramedic-action-dramedy/
#Code3 #RainnWilson #LilRelHowery #AimeeCarrero #film #paramedic
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#AssadAlNassasra , #paramedic has been released Tuesday, in poor physical health.
#ARRESTLikudNOW #ARRESTBibiBabyKiller #WarCrimes #ApartheidIsraeLIESasEasilyasBREATHING!
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#AssadAlNassasra , #paramedic has been released Tuesday, in poor physical health.
#ARRESTLikudNOW #ARRESTBibiBabyKiller #WarCrimes #ApartheidIsraeLIESasEasilyasBREATHING!
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#AssadAlNassasra , #paramedic has been released Tuesday, in poor physical health.
#ARRESTLikudNOW #ARRESTBibiBabyKiller #WarCrimes #ApartheidIsraeLIESasEasilyasBREATHING!
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#AssadAlNassasra , #paramedic has been released Tuesday, in poor physical health.
#ARRESTLikudNOW #ARRESTBibiBabyKiller #WarCrimes #ApartheidIsraeLIESasEasilyasBREATHING!
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#AssadAlNassasra , #paramedic has been released Tuesday, in poor physical health.
#ARRESTLikudNOW #ARRESTBibiBabyKiller #WarCrimes #ApartheidIsraeLIESasEasilyasBREATHING!
