Courage and Devotion: Paramedic heroes survive Sept. 11 and beyond[html document, 1199SEIU News, November 2001, www.1199seiu.org/articles/article.cfm?ID=4375] St. Johns Hospital paramedics James Dobson and Marvin Bethea spent September 11 bringing people to safety from the streets surrounding Ground Zero, and suffered difficult aftereffects themselves.