Emergency! and the Legalization of Paramedic Services
News of the death of Randolph Mantooth, who played paramedic Johnny Gage on Emergency! reminded me of my UCLA colleague… The post Emergency! and the Legalization of Paramedic Services appeared first on Reason.com.
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Health Care Emergency! and the Legalization of Paramedic Services Eugene Volokh | 7.11.2026 1:48 PM News of the death of Randolph Mantooth, who played paramedic Johnny Gage on Emergency! reminded me of my UCLA colleague Paul Bergman's 2007 article, Emergency!: Send a TV Show to Rescue Parademic Services!; an excerpt: This essay … seeks to document the pivotal role of Emergency! in producing an array of legal changes that resulted in an explosion in the availability of paramedic services during the time that the TV show aired new episodes…. The legalization of paramedic services required major changes in legal principles relating to both criminal and civil liability. For example, laws in all states made it a crime for non-physicians to practice medicine without a license.
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