Eli Beer: The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle

翻译人员: Emma Zhao 校对人员: Jing Peng

This is an ambucycle.

这是辆摩托救护车。

This is the fastest way to reach any medical emergency.

能以最快速度到达任何医疗紧急地点。

It has everything an ambulance has except for a bed.

除了没有床，救护车有的它都有了。

You see the defibrillator. You see the equipment.

有心脏除颤器,有医疗设备.

We all saw the tragedy that happened in Boston.

我们看到了波士顿发生的惨剧。

When I was looking at these pictures,

看到这些照片，

it brought me back many years to my past

我想起了多年前

when I was a child.

我还是个孩子时的事情.

I grew up in a small neighborhood in Jerusalem.

我成长在耶路撒冷的一个小社区。

When I was six years old, I was walking back from school

六岁那年，我放学回家

on a Friday afternoon with my older brother.

那是个星期五的下午，我跟哥哥一起。

We were passing by a bus stop.

我们路过一个公共车站。

We saw a bus blow up in front of our eyes.

一辆公车在我们眼前爆炸了。

The bus was on fire, and many people were hurt and killed.

车着火了，很多人受伤和被烧死。

I remembered an old man

我记得一位老人

yelling to us and crying to help us get him up.

对我们喊，哭着要我们帮他站起来。

He just needed someone helping him.

他只是需要人帮助他。

We were so scared and we just ran away.

而我们却吓得落荒而逃。

Growing up, I decided I wanted to become a doctor and save lives.

长大后，我决定成为一位医生好拯救生命。

Maybe that was because of what I saw when I was a child.

或许就是因为我孩提时看到的景象。

When I was 15, I took an EMT course,

我十五岁那年，选了EMT（急救治疗）课程，

and I went to volunteer on an ambulance.

就去在救护车上做义工。

For two years, I volunteered on an ambulance in Jerusalem.

有两年时间，我在耶路撒冷的救护车上做义工。

I helped many people,

帮助了很多人，

but whenever someone really needed help,

但每当真有人需要帮忙时，

I never got there in time. We never got there.

我从没及时赶到过,我们从没及时赶到过!

The traffic is so bad. The distance, and everything.

要么堵车厉害，或是距离遥远，等等原因.

We never got there when somebody really needed us.

当有人真的需要我们的时候，我们从没及时赶到过.

One day, we received a call about a seven-year-old child

一天，我们接到一个电话，说一个7岁的孩子

choking from a hot dog.

被热狗咽着了。

Traffic was horrific, and we were coming from

那天车堵得厉害，我们是从

the other side of town in the north part of Jerusalem.

耶路萨冷北部的另外一边的一个镇上赶过去.

When we got there, 20 minutes later,

20分钟后，我们赶到那，

we started CPR on the kid.

开始对这个孩子做CPR（心脏复苏术）。

A doctor comes in from a block away,

一位医生从一条街之外的地方赶来,

stop us, checks the kid, and tells us to stop CPR.

他止住了我们，看了下孩子，叫我们停止CPR。

That second he declared this child dead.

他宣布了这个孩子的死亡。

At that moment, I understood

那一刻，我突然意识到

that this child died for nothing.

这孩子死得毫无意义。

If this doctor, who lived one block away from there,

如果，这位住在一条街以外的医生

would have come 20 minutes earlier,

能早来20分钟，

not have to wait until that siren he heard before

而不是等听到救护车的警报声

coming from the ambulance,

才来，

if he would have heard about it way before,

如果他之前听到了，

he would have saved this child.

他就能救了这个孩子。

He could have run from a block away.

他甚至能从那条街跑过来,

He could have saved this child.

就能救这个孩子.

I said to myself, there must be a better way.

我告诉自己，一定有个更好的办法。

Together with 15 of my friends --

我们十五个朋友一起

we were all EMTs —

全是EMT(急救技师),

we decided, let's protect our neighborhood,

决定自己行动起来,保护我们的社区，

so when something like that happens again,

所以，每当有类似的事情发生，

we will be there running to the scene a lot before the ambulance.

我们将赶在救护车之前跑到现场。

So I went over to the manager of the ambulance company

我去找救护车公司的经理

and I told him, "Please, whenever you have a call

告诉他，“等你有电话要到

coming into our neighborhood,

我们社区急救时,

we have 15 great guys who are willing

我们有十五个训练有素的人愿意

to stop everything they're doing and run and save lives.

停下手中的任何事情，跑来抢救生命。

Just alert us by beeper.

就用呼叫器叫我们就行。

We'll buy these beepers, just tell your dispatch

我们会买来呼叫器，只是让你们的调度

to send us the beeper, and we will run and save lives."

呼叫我们，我们就跑来救人。”

Well, he was laughing. I was 17 years old. I was a kid.

他不屑一顾，当时我17岁，还是个孩子。

And he said to me — I remember this like yesterday —

我清楚地记得他对我说，

he was a great guy, but he said to me,

虽说他是个好人，但他说，

"Kid, go to school, or go open a falafel stand.

孩子，上学去吧，或去开个路边摊。

We're not really interested in these kinds of new adventures.

我们对这些新玩艺不感兴趣。

We're not interested in your help." And he threw me out of the room.

我们不要你们帮忙。”他就把我赶出来了。

"I don't need your help," he said.

他说，“我不需要你们的帮忙。”

I was a very stubborn kid.

我是个顽固的孩子。

As you see now, I'm walking around like crazy, meshugenah.

看我，疯子一样走来走去。

(Laughter) (Applause)

（笑声）（掌声）

So I decided to use the Israeli very famous technique

于是，我决定使用以色列人很著名的技巧

you've probably all heard of, chutzpah. (Laughter)

你们或许早有耳闻，就是厚颜大胆。（笑）

And the next day, I went and I bought two police scanners,

第二天，我去买了两个警用频道捜索仪,

and I said, "The hell with you, if you don't want

并自言自语，“去你的吧，你不提供信息给我，

to give me information, I'll get the information myself."

我自己去搞。”

And we did turns, who's going to listen to the radio scanners.

我们轮班，监听有关信息.

The next day, while I was listening to the scanners,

第二天，正当我值班时,

I heard about a call coming in of a 70-year-old man

听到一个电话说一位70岁的老人

hurt by a car only one block away from me

被车撞了，就离我一街之隔,

on the main street of my neighborhood.

在我社区的一条主要大街上。

I ran there by foot. I had no medical equipment.

我拔腿就跑到那，我没有医疗器械。

When I got there, the 70-year-old man

到那时，这位70岁的老人

was lying on the floor, blood was gushing out of his neck.

躺在地上，鲜血从脖子涌出。

He was on Coumadin.

他用了香豆素(一类口服抗凝药).

I knew I had to stop his bleeding or else he would die.

我知道我要快止血，不然他会死的。

I took off my yarmulke, because I had no medical equipment,

我摘下我的圆顶小帽，因为我没有什么医疗设备，

and with a lot of pressure, I stopped his bleeding.

我用了很大力，把血止住了。

He was bleeding from his neck.

他本来是大量出血的,

When the ambulance arrived 15 minutes later,

十五分钟后救护车到了，

I gave them over a patient who was alive.

我把还健在的病人交给他们。

(Applause)

（掌声）

When I went to visit him two days later,

两天后我去拜访他，

he gave me a hug and was crying

他拥抱着我，哭着

and thanking me for saving his life.

感谢我救了他的命。

At that moment, when I realized this is the first person

那时，我意识到他是我

I ever saved in my life after two years volunteering in an ambulance,

这两年做救护义工以来救活的第一人.

我知道，这是我人生的使命。

I knew this is my life's mission.

So today, 22 years later, we have United Hatzalah.

22年后的今天，我们有了United Hatzalah（联合救护组织）。

(Applause)

（掌声）

"Hatzalah" means "rescue," for all of you who don't know Hebrew.

"Hatzalah”的意思是救助，如果你不懂希伯来语的话。

I forgot I'm not in Israel.

我忘了我不是在以色列。

So we have thousands of volunteers

我们有成千上万的志愿者

who are passionate about saving lives,

他们满腔热情拯救生命，

and they're spread all around, so whenever a call comes in,

他们在不同的地方，一有电话进来，

他们就停下手上的事情，跑去救人。

they just stop everything and go and run and save a life.

Our average response time today

现在我们的平均回应时间

went down to less than three minutes in Israel.

在以色列是不到3分钟。

(Applause)

（掌声）

I'm talking about heart attacks,

我讲的是心脏病发作，

I'm talking about car accidents,

车祸，

God forbid bomb attacks, shootings, whatever it is,

炸弹攻击，枪击，等等

even a woman 3 o'clock in the morning

甚至有个妇女凌晨3点

falling in her home and needs someone to help her.

在家里摔倒需要人帮助她。

Three minutes, we'll have a guy with his pajamas

3分钟内,我们会有人穿着睡衣

running to her house and helping her get up.

跑到她家里，扶她起身。

The reasons why we're so successful are because of three things.

我们如此成功的原因有三。

Thousands of passionate volunteers

成千上万的热情志愿者

who will leave everything they do

他们将丢下手中的活儿,

and run to help people they don't even know.

跑去帮助他们不认识的人。

We're not there to replace ambulances.

我们不是代替救护车。

We're just there

我们到那，

to get the gap between the ambulance call until they arrive.

去填补救护车到达之前的那个空缺时间。

And we save people that otherwise would not be saved.

我们救人，不然他们就没救了。

The second reason is because of our technology.

第二个原因是我们的技术。

You know, Israelis are good in technology.

大家知道，以色列技术很先进的。

Every one of us has on his phone, no matter what kind of phone,

我们的手机，不管什么样的，

a GPS technology done by NowForce,

都有NowForce的全球定位系统（GPS）

and whenever a call comes in,

一有电话进来，

the closest five volunteers get the call,

最近的五位志愿者会接到电话，

and they actually get there really quick,

他们很快赶去，

and navigated by a traffic navigator to get there and not waste time.

有交通情况导航，不会浪费时间。

And this is a great technology we use all over the country

这个技术我们用于全国

and reduce the response time.

减少了回应时间。

And the third thing are these ambucycles.

第三个就是摩托救护车。

These ambucycles are an ambulance on two wheels.

这些摩托救护车是两轮的救护车。

We don't transfer people, but we stabilize them,

我们不运送人，但我们会及时处理病人,这样

and we save their lives.

我们就救了他们的命。

They never get stuck in traffic. They could even go on a sidewalk.

它们从不会被堵在路上，甚至可以走人行道。

真的,它们从来没遇到过交通堵塞.

They never, literally, get stuck in traffic.

That's why we get there so fast.

这就是为什么我们会如此之快到达。

A few years after I started this organization,

我在犹太社区组建这个机构

in a Jewish community,

的几年后, ( 有一天),

two Muslims from east Jerusalem called me up.

两个穆斯林从东耶路撒冷打电话给我。

They ask me to meet. They wanted to meet with me.

他们要求见我。他们想见我。

Muhammad Asli and Murad Alyan.

是Muhammad Asli 和Murad Alyan.

When Muhammad told me his personal story,

Muhammad告诉我一个他的亲身经历,

how his father, 55 years old, collapsed at home,

他的父亲，55岁，倒在家中，

had a cardiac arrest,

出现心搏停止

and it took over an hour for an ambulance arrive,

救护车一个多小时后才到，

and he saw his father die in front of his eyes,

他眼看着父亲去世，

他问我，“请在东耶路撒冷也开始摩托救护吧."

he asked me, "Please start this in east Jerusalem."

I said to myself, I saw so much tragedy, so much hate,

我看到太多悲剧，太多愤恨

and it's not about saving Jews. It's not about saving Muslims.

这不是只救犹太人, 或是穆斯林,

It's not about saving Christians. It's about saving people.

或是基督徒, 这是救助所有的人.

So I went ahead, full force --

所以我答应了,并全力以赴。

(Applause) —

（掌声）

and I started United Hatzalah in east Jerusalem,

我开始了东耶路撒冷的United Hatzalah。

and that's why the names United

这是为什么United（联合）

and Hatzalah match so well.

与Hatzalah（救护）如此相配。

We started hand in hand saving Jews and Arabs.

我们手拉手救犹太人和阿拉伯人。

Arabs were saving Jews. Jews were saving Arabs.

阿拉伯人在救犹太人。犹太人在救阿拉伯人。

Something special happened.

发生了这么奇特的事。

Arabs and Jews, they don't always get along together,

阿拉伯人和犹太人并不总是很合得来，

but here in this situation,

但在这种情形下，

the communities, literally,

这些社区中，毫无夸张

it's an unbelievable situation that happened,

令人不可思议的事情发生了，

the diversities, all of a sudden they had a common interest:

突然间，他们有了个共同的兴趣：

Let's save lives together.

一起拯救生命。

Settlers were saving Arabs and Arabs were saving settlers.

殖民者救阿拉伯人，阿拉伯人救殖民者.

It's an unbelievable concept that could work

这种不可思议的事能奏效

只能是当正义的原由存在.

only when you have such a great cause.

And these are all volunteers.

而且,大家全都是志愿者。

No one is getting money.

没人得到任何报酬.

They're all doing it for the purpose of saving lives.

他们这样做的目的就是拯救生命。

When my own father collapsed a few years ago

我父亲几年前突然

from a cardiac arrest, one of the first volunteers

由于心博停止晕倒，在最早

to arrive to save my father

赶来抢救我父亲的志愿者中,有一位

was one of these Muslim volunteers from east Jerusalem

就是来自东耶路撒冷的穆斯林志愿者,

who was in the first course to join Hatzalah.

他是第一批参加Hatzalah救助队的。

And he saved my father.

他救了我父亲。

Could you imagine how I felt in that moment?

能想象我当时的感受吗？

When I started this organization, I was 17 years old.

我开始这个组织的时候，我17岁。

I never imagined that one day I'd be speaking at TEDMED.

我从没想象有一天我会在TEDMED上讲话。

I never even knew what TEDMED was then.

我当时根本不知道TEDMED是怎么回事。

I don't think it existed, but I never imagined,

它根本不存在，但我从没想象，

I never imagined that it's going to go all around,

我从没想象我的组织会发展到各地，

它还会扩展，

it's going to spread around,

去年我们开始了巴拿马和巴西的分支机构,

and this last year we started in Panama and Brazil.

All I need is a partner who is a little meshugenah like me,

我需要的就是一个和我一样疯狂的合作伙伴，

passionate about saving lives, and willing to do it.

热衷于抢救生命，愿意去做。

And I'm actually starting it in India very soon

我很快就要在印度开始

with a friend who I met in Harvard just a while back.

和一个以前在哈弗遇到的朋友。

Hatzalah actually started in Brooklyn by a Hasidic Jew

其实在布鲁克林区威廉斯堡镇有一个哈西德派的犹太人开始的Hatzalah，

years before us in Williamsburg,

要早我们好几年，

and now it's all over the Jewish community in New York,

现在，它发展到纽约的全部犹太社区,

even Australia and Mexico and many other Jewish communities.

甚至在澳大利亚和墨西哥的许多别的犹太社区也有了。

But it could spread everywhere.

它还会扩展到世界各地.

It's very easy to adopt.

它很容易被人接受。

You even saw these volunteers in New York

你甚至会看到纽约的志愿者们

saving lives in the World Trade Center.

在世贸中心救人。

Last year alone, we treated in Israel 207,000 people.

光去年在以色列，我们救助了20万7千人。

Forty-two thousand of them were life-threatening situations.

有4万2千人是处于生命危险状况。

And we made a difference.

我们的付出有了成效。

I guess you could call this a lifesaving flash mob,

你也可以称之为“救命闪侠”

and it works.

大有成效。

When I look all around here,

我看看这里，

I see lots of people who would go an extra mile,

有很多人愿意再付出一把，

run an extra mile to save other people,

再多跑一里路去救别人，

no matter who they are, no matter what religion,

不管是谁，不管是什么信仰，

no matter who, where they come from.

无论是谁，从哪里来。

We all want to be heroes.

我们都想成为英雄。

We just need a good idea, motivation

我们只需一个好点子，动机

and lots of chutzpah,

和很多的厚颜大胆，

and we could save millions of people

那么我们就能拯救数百万

that otherwise would not be saved.

生命垂危的人.

Thank you very much.

谢谢大家！

(Applause)

（掌声）