Article on medevac choppers

The ems system has its share of paradoxes. It is hard to describe the relief I have felt when the chopper arrived to carry a trauma patient or sick baby from my rural community hospital ER to the distant university medical center in time to make a difference, but I have lost a number of colleagues in air crashes. Tough, dangerous work that saves a relatively small number of lives at great risk to the crews and great expense to the system, analogous to the cost-benefit issues in complex SAR missions.