REACH People - Stories

At age five Chris Le Baudour was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. "Become a doctor," he replied, without hesitation. That fascination lead Chris to enter the medical field. Now with decades of hands-on EMS experience as a first-responder, and many more years educating others in the field, he still cliams to have learned all there is to know about life from the back of an ambulance.

Today Chris writes, lectures, teaches and breathes emergency medicine. He helped create REACH’s state-of-the-science communications center. His latest assignment is to refine the training center so that it is unlike anything currently in existence.

As an educator in classrooms and as a lecturer at conferences and seminars around the country, Chris gets to the heart of our work by engaging students in exploring the meaning behind saving lives. As fate would have it, Chris became a REACH patient himself. He needed emergency air transport from a remote coastal location to a hospital where a life-saving stent was inserted into his blocked artery. Now he’s experienced firsthand what thousands of REACH patients have--the quality and compassionate care REACH provides.