One of the themes that comes up in this book is “calls to loneliness.” It happened that Sowizdraniuk and his colleagues opened the door to women hoping for intimate relationships. But there is, of course, another kind of loneliness. – We had a lot of patients who were lonely, just. They lived by themselves – this is a big problem in big cities, because they are hidden in their apartments. These are not people like young people who are also hidden, but on the web, on the Internet, on social networks. These are people who are really lonely, who live in apartments, and very often they are looking for some kind of contact. It’s also still incomprehensible to me how they get to the point where you can talk to paramedics, but I remember a lot of such patients with whom we were close. There were patients who had some chronic diseases, and we visited them often, but there were also those who said, “Well, I’ll call an ambulance, we’ll see how they are doing”, and we would come, and we really heard: “And then I won’t talk to you” and in an hour she called for a second card for someone else to come – And indeed this loneliness is difficult – emphasizes Sowizdraniuk in a video interview.
– It’s not a lifeguard caring for an old lady who has a chronic illness. This is a book with such a big question mark: what role do they play in the social system, not only in health care? – points out the journalist Justyna Dżbik-Kluge, who adds:
He is on duty for 10-12 hours and can come to you, to a child with a stomach ache, for example from a mass accident, after three deaths, and you say: “Lord, you save my child!”. What’s on that boy’s mind? It’s fascinating how much of a wall you must be with a job like this.
In the conversation, the whole of which will be available from April 7 in Gazeta.pl and listened to as a Publio podcast “Read well, listen well” we also talk about death, the approach of relatives of victims to rescuers and what this profession really is. The authors also say about the work of rescuers in a pandemic, although – as they emphasize – they did not want “Lifeguard. I am not a god” to be only about this period of their work. Sowidranuk himself was a paramedic in Wrocław and the surrounding area for several years. He returned to work during the pandemic.
“Lifeguard. I’m not a god” – about the book
A suicide who tried to save himself in the last moments of his life. Lonely woman craving tenderness. An old woman left alone by her family. An infant suffocating from a common cold that inexperienced parents cannot help. What do these and many others have in common? Inhabitants of big cities and forgotten villages, students and priests, saleswomen and professors? Paramedic. A man who, during a dozen-hour shift, encounters various personalities, behaviors and accidents.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a lot of talk about rescuers. People applauded them on their balconies, their sacrifice was highlighted in the media, but it also happened that paint was thrown at their cars, shouting “Plague carriers!”. What does a lifeguard face every day? How prepared is he to help people, not only after heart attacks or car accidents? This is the book published by Marginesy.
Source: Gazeta
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