Combining an outdoors passion with a medical career with Eric Pirie

Eric Pirie has taken an interesting career path; starting in a non medical job, journeying through Mountain Rescue, a full time outdoors instructor and culminating in qualifying as a paramedic in his fifties. Eric joins Deb Swann to discuss how you can forge your own career pathway to combine an outdoors passion with a medical career. Eric discusses his experience of working with Mountain Rescue, the skills and experiences needed to support the teams, and how it ultimately encouraged him to qualify in paramedicine where he now works for the Scottish Ambulance Service.