Ann Hirschman
Ann Hirschman | |
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| Born | 1946 or 1947 (age 79–80)[1] |
| Known for | Street medic training |
Ann Hirschman is an American nurse practitioner and an elder of the street medic movement.
Early life and career
[edit | edit source]Ann Hirschman was trained as a nurse, graduating in 1967. She became a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, where she joined a faction that expressed a moral obligation to assist the civil rights movement. In 1969, Hirschman happened upon a Greenwich Village political demonstration. When it turned violent, she began performing first aid with a kit she keeps on her at all times. Hirschman was present at the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation, where she treated a man who had been shot in the head.[1] She has been arrested more than ten times and never convicted.[2]
Hirschman wrote an early street medic training program and trained activists to become medics. Her trainees were affiliated with Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers.[1] She trained Ron "Doc" Rosen, who started the Colorado Street Medics, one of the oldest street medic organizations in the country.[2]
References
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