Or a certificate in emergency medical services, which can help you become an emergency medical technician and paramedic.

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Lawson runs the village by day and works as a town emergency medical technician by night.

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There are also two cameramen--video and still--shooting souvenir pictures of the students and an emergency medical technician standing by.

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Some emergency medical technician handbooks even describe how to use duct tape to close up sucking chest wounds like gunshots.

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His pain was so bad, he says, that he quit his job as an emergency medical technician in April 2007.

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Mr. Moran, a former emergency medical technician, drove to the crash scene.

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