Risky Business
Series: CBC Award Winning Radio Programs
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Length: 00:30:50
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If you stand outside any hospital in Canada, you'll probably see all kinds of vehicles picking up patients and dropping them off. Some say "ambulance", or E-M-S on them, some just have company names. They may all look pretty much the same but they're not. The look-a-like ambulances are for patients in stable condition and are referred to as 'patient transfer vehicles'. In most parts of Canada they're regulated by provincial ministers, but in Ontario, the largest province in the country, they're not. Producer Tina Pittaway looks at this issue in her documentary entitled 'Risky Business'. It won gold for Best Investigative Reporting at the 2010 New York Festivals Radio Program and Promotion Awards.
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If you stand outside any hospital in Canada, you'll probably see all kinds of vehicles picking up patients and dropping them off. Some say "ambulance", or E-M-S on them, some just have company names. They may all look pretty much the same but they're not. The look-a-like ambulances are for patients in stable condition and are referred to as 'patient transfer vehicles'. In most parts of Canada they're regulated by provincial ministers, but in Ontario, the largest province in the country, they're not. Producer Tina Pittaway looks at this issue in her documentary entitled 'Risky Business'. It won gold for Best Investigative Reporting at the 2010 New York Festivals Radio Program and Promotion Awards.
Timing and Cues
IN: "If you stand...
OUT: "...non-ambulance transportation."
Intro and Outro
INTRO:We have now a documentary from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called 'Risky Business'. It won Gold at the New York Festival Awards for Best Investigative Reporting. 'Risky Business' reveals some surprising and worrisome facts about ambulance service in Canada.
OUTRO:You heard veteran CBC Radio host Michael Enright at the end of this award winning documentary 'Risky Business', produced by Tina Pittaway and Neil Sandell. It took gold at this year's (2010) New York Festivals Awards for Best Investigative Reporting (longform).
