Past Medical History: The Story of EMS

Hosted by paramedics Evan Claunch and Sophie Fuller, Past Medical History: The Story of EMS is an immersive, cinematic storytelling audio drama and documentary-type podcast featuring rich soundscapes and dramatic narration. The PMHX podcast explores how heroes, disasters, and ideas collided to create the world of EMS we know today. Sometimes it’s dark, sometimes it’s inspiring, but it’s always real, raw, and rooted in the passion of those who answer the call.Whether you’re an EMT, flight paramedic, nurse, or just fascinated by the stories that built pre-hospital medicine, this is your podcast… told like never before.

Past Medical History: The Story of EMS is a society podcast hosted by paramedics Evan Claunch and, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

paramedics Evan Claunch and hosts Past Medical History: The Story of EMS, a society show with 15 episodes published.

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  Episode #13

  The Weight of It: A 9/11 Story

  Feb 17, 202631 minS0

  <p>On September 11, 2001, in Manhattan, sirens stack on top of each other, and the sky turns gray long before the dust reaches the streets. Ambulances roll south. Triage lanes are built on the West Side Highway. Radios fill with call signs and static. Amid the noise, one hospital-based EMS crew responds to an assignment that will not clear.</p><p><br>This episode isn’t about headlines. It’s about what it means to respond when the scale exceeds imagination. It’s about how systems bend under pressure… how voices search for each other through static… and how a profession carries lo...

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  Episode #12

  The Sequence

  Feb 10, 202634 minS0

  <p>A small plane disappears into the dark over rural Nebraska. Hours later, a family walks out of the wreckage... injured, freezing, alive. But the moment that changes emergency medicine doesn’t happen at the crash site. It happens somewhere far more unsettling. Inside a hospital that isn’t ready. What follows isn’t malpractice or cruelty. It’s something quieter. More dangerous.</p><p>That night, James Styner sees something he can’t unsee. <br>And somewhere else, another surgeon, Norman McSwain, is already wrestling with the same problem from a completely different angle.</p><p><br>Two men. Two enviro...

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  Episode #11

  The Voice That Bought Time

  Feb 3, 202638 minS0

  <p>In the late 1970s, emergency dispatch was little more than a switchboard. Calls came in as panic. Help went out as guesswork. And the minutes before an ambulance arrived were largely empty.</p><p>Then one night, a dispatcher stayed on the line with a terrified parent and talked them through saving their baby’s life... using nothing but calm questions, structured instructions, and a voice that refused to let time win. This episode explores the moment dispatch stopped being the front desk of EMS and became its first clinical intervention. We follow Dr. Jeff Clawson’s radical idea that...

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  Episode #10

  Disaster at the Hyatt

  Jan 27, 202645 minS0

  <p>On a summer night in 1981 in Kansas City, a crowded hotel atrium feels safe. Ordinary. Predictable. Then something truly disastrous happens. What follows is not just a collapse of steel and concrete, but a test of an entire city’s ability to respond when everything moves at once. Ambulances flood toward a single address. Dispatch boards fill. And across town, emergencies continue to happen with no one left to answer them.</p><p>This episode explores what happens when disaster doesn’t just injure people... it consumes capacity. When speed alone isn’t enough, and when emergency medicine is forced...

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  Episode #9

  Sweet Caroline

  Jan 20, 202641 minS0

  <p>On a sunlit highway in Israel in 1978, an ambulance races toward a burning bus under live gunfire. Inside is a young physician who helped write the rules that will decide who lives and who dies in the next few minutes. Her name is Nancy Caroline, and this moment captures the idea that would define her life’s work: survival is decided long before the hospital doors ever open.</p><p>In this episode, PMHX traces the extraordinary story of the woman who helped invent modern paramedicine. Nancy Caroline helped prove that advanced medical care belongs wherever people collapse, bleed, an...

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