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A paramedic as an influencer
Christian Manshen begins his 12-hour shift at the rescue station. photo
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Emergency paramedic Christian Manshen looks behind the scenes of the city and sees a lot of suffering. He himself gives a large audience on the Internet insight into his work and draws attention to problems.
A shrill beeping echoes through the garage of the rescue station in the Bramow district of Rostock. Only shortly before, emergency paramedic Christian Manshen took over the small black detector from his colleague on the night shift. The device now indicates an emergency in a nursing home. Manshen and his colleague Annabell Malchow get into their ambulance and drive off.
The 34-year-old Manshen explains on the Internet what the job of an emergency paramedic entails. As Influencer, he has an Instagram channel with more than 32,000 subscribers, is on Tiktok and runs a podcast together with paramedic Luis Teichmann that was nominated for the German Podcast Prize. “In total, we already had over 10 million listeners,” says Manshen. They were also on tour. For now, Manshen is continuing the podcast alone because Teichmann wants to concentrate on his doctorate in rescue engineering.
A lot of attention with a multi-part video
“For us as Johanniter, it is of course incredibly good to have such added value through an employee,” says Aileen Holm, spokeswoman for the aid organizations, about Manshen’s commitment. “We are incredibly proud that he is not only a professional rescuer for us, but also conveys this information to the outside world.”
Manshen attracted a lot of attention with a multi-part video in which he addressed the psychological stress in the emergency services. Based on a song from the Disney film “Frozen,” he sang “Do you want to go on a mission?” Finally, there is talk of a failed resuscitation. You can see a battered paramedic who is obviously no longer able to work.
“If you don’t talk about it and take it all in, it won’t work at all,” says Mashen. “I have a colleague here, you can talk to him about anything.” He always chats with him after his shift. In addition to friends and colleagues, professional advice is also available. He has already taken advantage of it.