Editing Paramedic (section)

===Public notability===
While doing background research at Los Angeles' [[UCLA]] Harbor Medical Center for a proposed new show about doctors, [[television producer]] [[Robert A. Cinader]], working for [[Jack Webb]], happened to encounter "firemen who spoke like doctors and worked with them".  This concept developed into the television series ''[[Emergency!]]'', which ran from 1972 to 1977, portraying the exploits of this new profession called paramedics. The show gained popularity with emergency services personnel, the medical community, and the general public. When the show first aired in 1972, there were just six paramedic units operating in three pilot programs in the whole of the US, and the term paramedic was essentially unknown. By the time the program ended in 1977, there were paramedics operating in all fifty states. The show's [[technical advisor]], [[James O. Page]], was a pioneer of [[paramedicine]] and responsible for the UCLA paramedic program; he would go on to help establish paramedic programs throughout the US, and was the founding publisher of the ''Journal of Emergency Medical Services'' (''JEMS''). The ''JEMS'' magazine creation resulted from Page's previous purchase of the ''PARAMEDICS International'' magazine. [[Ron Stewart (Canadian politician)|Ron Stewart]], the show's [[medical director]], was instrumental in organizing emergency health services in southern California earlier in his career during the 1970s, in the paramedic program in Pittsburgh, and had a substantial role in the founding of the paramedic programs in Toronto and [[Nova Scotia]], Canada.