This Week On “Boston EMS”
Following its strong debut as Saturday night’s most-watched show, “Boston EMS” continues this week, taking viewers to the streets of Boston to deliver an intimate portrait of the proud men and women of the nation’s most seasoned group of first responders.
In episode two, scheduled for Saturday, August 1, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC, an eleven-year-old boy sprints for the school bus and becomes a casualty of a hit-and-run driver. An EMT—who is a mother of five—arrives at the scene to comfort the boy’s crying mom who needs as much attention as her injured son.
Also in this episode:
- A cyclist is pinned under an SUV and is lucky not to pay the ultimate price for not wearing a helmet;
- The gloves are on as EMTs transport a woman in labor and debate who gets to deliver the baby if they don’t reach a hospital in time;
- Paramedics wrestle with how to break the news to an accident victim that his friend is worse off than he is;
- EMTs race through rush hour traffic only to get blown off by a patient who declines treatment so he can search for his missing phone.
“Boston EMS is fazed by nothing. We have seen them extricate people from under cars, trains and fallen buildings. We have seen grateful patients and very disagreeable ones,” says Executive Producer Terence Wrong. “They handle all jobs with courtesy and aplomb.”
The series is part of this summer’s one-two punch from ABC offering viewers a unique glimpse into real life medicine. Its companion series is the critically-praised “Save My Life: Boston Trauma,” a tour de force inside Boston’s top hospital ERs, airing Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
