Throwback Thursday: Old School Ambulance
In case of a medical emergency, you may consider calling 911 to request an ambulance. While an ambulance ride can be scary, it certainly looks better than the alternative from over 100 years ago.
![Several young men stand in and around a car that was perhaps used as an ambulance in a 105-year-old photo, courtesy of the Baylor College of Medicine Archives](https://blogs.bcm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/er-corps.png)
This photo, courtesy of the Baylor College of Medicine Archives, is from the 1913 Round Up yearbook. It shows a group of students in what was then known as the Baylor University Medical Department posing with a “new-to-them” car.
Given the age of these photos, we don’t have details on the specifics here. Perhaps the “Emergency Corps” were doctors who would travel to their patients, which was a common practice at the time. There doesn’t look to be enough room for a stretcher in the backseat…
Take a look at how our medical students learn about emergency medicine today.
By Andy Phifer