Paramedic snake on staff with blue star type thing

[Andrew Ritchie]

i could be wrong, but i am sure that i saw that on brandsoftheworld.com

[Lynn Normington]

This any good Dave

Lynn

[Dave]

Hmm..

I really dont mean to be picky…

The sample the customer gave me had kind of an angry looking snake

cant seem to find anything other than those that look like a worm. 😮

or am i just being a perfectionist?

Thanks again everyone 🙄

[Peter Normington]

Perhaps the worms are the correct image? the logo that lynn posted is the one on 600 ambulances in our county.
Its called the staff of life, perhaps a private company want to show more teeth?

Peter

[Dave]

Hehe, maybe so.

Thanks again

[Dave]

Done a bit more digging and found a short history lesson…….

"The symbol of emergency medical services is "The Star of Life". It contains six points and a staff in the middle of the symbol. The Star of Life has been adopted throughout North America to symbolise Emergency Medical Services & Paramedics.

The Star

Thought to symbolise an angel of mercy with wings spread, each point represents a component of care.

* Point 1: Detection
* Point 2: Reporting
* Point 3: Response
* Point 4: On Scene Care
* Point 5: Care in Transit
* Point 6: Transfer of Definitive Care

Designed by Leo R. Schwartz, Chief of the EMS Branch, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the "Star of Life" was created after the American National Red Cross complained in 1973 that they objected to the common use of an Omaha orange cross on a square background of reflective white which clearly imitated the Red Cross symbol. NHTSA investigated and felt the complaint was justified.

The Snake & the Staff

The snake and staff in the centre of the symbol portray the staff Asclepius who, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Apollo (god of light, truth and prophecy). Supposedly Asclepius learned the art of healing from the centaur Cheron; but Zeus – king of the gods, was fearful that because of the Asclepius knowledge, all men might be rendered immortal. Rather than have this occur, Zeus slew Asclepius with a thunderbolt. Later, Asclepius was worshipped as a god and people slept in his temples, as it was rumoured that he effected cures of prescribed remedies to the sick during their dreams.Eventually, Zues restored Asclepius to life, making him a god.

Asclepius was usually shown in a standing position, dressed in a long cloat, holding a staff with a serpent coiled around it. The staff has since come to represent medicine’s only symbol. In the Caduceus, used by physicians and the Military Medical Corp., the staff is winged and has two serpents intertwined. Even though this does not hold any medical relevance in origin, it represents the magic wand of the Greek deity, Hermes, messenger of the gods.

The staff with the single serpent is the symbol for Medicine and Health and the winged staff is the symbol for peace. The Staff with the single serpent represents the time when Asclepius had a very difficult patient that he could not cure, so he consulted a snake for advice and the patient survived. The snake had coiled around Asclepius’s staff in order to be head to head with him as an equal when talking. The Winged staff came about when Mercury saw two serpents fighting, and unable to stop them any other way placed his staff between them causing them to coil up his winged staff.

The Bible, in Numbers 21:9, makes reference to a serpent on a staff: "Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered."

……. Just in case you ever wondered 😉