Richard Fidler interviewed Katherine for ABC's The Conversation Hour in 2007. Click here to listen.
"I think you get good at hiding it -- if you're not sure what you're doing, you sort of fake it until you can figure it out. It was drilled in you, when you're training, that you do what you can and that you have to stay calm... If people see an ambulance officer panicking, then they start thinking, oh, this is really bad... I was always aware of that - the words that you use, how quickly you move, and that sort of thing."
"I think you get good at hiding it -- if you're not sure what you're doing, you sort of fake it until you can figure it out. It was drilled in you, when you're training, that you do what you can and that you have to stay calm... If people see an ambulance officer panicking, then they start thinking, oh, this is really bad... I was always aware of that - the words that you use, how quickly you move, and that sort of thing."
Linda Morris interviewed Katherine for a feature article in the Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum in 2013.
"A PARAMEDIC knows better than anyone that catastrophe, even death, lies in wait for ordinary people, striking at the most unlikely of times. Meeting people on the worst day of their life was one reason Katherine Howell decided to step back from the brightly lit, high-stakes world of emergency medicine to write."
Read the rest here.
"A PARAMEDIC knows better than anyone that catastrophe, even death, lies in wait for ordinary people, striking at the most unlikely of times. Meeting people on the worst day of their life was one reason Katherine Howell decided to step back from the brightly lit, high-stakes world of emergency medicine to write."
Read the rest here.