Ann Hirschman

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Ann Hirschman
Born1946/1947(age 74–75) [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

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bromwich, Jonah Engel (June 10, 2020). "Meet the 'Grandmother of Street Medics'". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331.
  2. 1 2 Whipple, Kelsey (April 18, 2012). "Colorado Street Medics: Meet Ann Hirschman, one of the earliest teachers of street skills". Westword . Retrieved December 24, 2021.