Peter Canning, the EMS Coordinator at UConn John Dempsey Hospital, has worked for more than 25 years as a 911 paramedic in the greater Hartford area. He is the author of “Paramedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine,” “Rescue 471: A Paramedic’s Stories,” and a new nonfiction book about the heroin epidemic, “Killing Season: A Paramedic’s Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Opioid Epidemic.”
