Seattle doctors, nurses swap scrubs for fire gear to gain new insight into first responder challengesImage of a member of Harborview Medical Center's medical team climbing up a ladder as part of a community initiative that has some of Seattle's top doctor's and nurses be a firefighter for a day. Many of us would love the chance to try a different job just for a day. Some of Seattle’s top doctors and nurses got that chance by trading in their scrubs for a chance to be a firefighter.
Doctors and nurses from Harborview Medical Center suited up for a first-hand look at what it means to be a first responder in Federal Way. The medical team took their rounds climbing an aerial ladder, repelling down a building, and seeing how to extricate someone from a car crash.