The title Ambulance Girl: How i Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT is straightforward and self-explanatory because the entire book is about a period in Jane Stern's life where she started to train for becoming an Emergency Medical Technician and her working as one. A few times in the entire book, she mentions how people call her "ambulance girl" when she arrives at emergencies. Therefore, she considers this her other name. Her job is always hopping on and off an ambulance car during a time of emergency. Since she is an EMT she has to stay in the ambulance with patients at any time. She gives herself this name because she wants to feel like she is the person in charge of saving other people's lives. For instance, in one of the scenes she picks up her EMT jacket and explains how it is her cape. She states, "I am after all, 'Ambulance Girl'-invincible, like Wonder Woman in a flowing cape and tights" (Stern 193). This was the part where she was visiting a patient who had suffered a stroke. She felt that she had control over saving this man's life, which is why she was feeling positive about herself. There is no question that the book's title stayed on topic with the content because the entire book was about her training and work. She wrote about every unforgettable, emergency event she had experienced while working in the Georgetown Firehouse. The title also shows how she truly saved herself because she was psychologically damaged and felt that helping people would help herself escape from depression and middle-aged angst, since she dealt with other people's problems. Upon having various psychological issues, she found a sense of well-being when she thought of herself as a person who saves others. Since she had to do what she feared the most, she learned that she could face it even though it was hard.
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