B.C. paramedics Peter Nguyen and Marco Law have graduated from UBC Medical School, finishing the gruelling program while working on the front line of health care. Sarah MacDonald reports.It’s a journey undertaken daily by thousands of patients in B.C.’s health-care system. It’s also the incredible path taken by two of the province’s newest doctors.Somehow, both of them managed to pull off that already difficult task while working as paramedics in the B.C. Ambulance Service.
“ make them feel comfortable and be able to build that rapport … when sometimes you are taking away their awareness with medication, sometimes you are taking their ability to breathe and they have to trust you to do that all for them, to be their advocate in the operating room,” he said.Law is headed to Nelson where he’ll start a residency in family medicine, working in rural clinics and hospitals.