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Chronicle Profile
Capt. Price:.
BY AUDREY WILLIAMS Chronicle
Staff Writer
George Price couldn't afford the price it would
have cost him to go to medical school.
"No, 1 couldn't afford to be a doctor," he says. "1
was a poor man raised on the farm. But I've worked
in just about all aspects of a hospital, except for coronary
care and the psych ward."
Despite obstacles, Price, 49, managed to attain
most of his ambitions. Today, he serves as the first
and only black captain of the Forsyth County Ambulance
Service and for the past 13 years he has been
associate minister to the Rev. l.L. Anthony of Oak
Grove Baptist Church in Walkertown.
To Price, a stranger becomes an instant friend and
extending his large, but helping hand is second nature
to him.
* .... 1 eniov people,'jsays Price. 441 dorv'-t
enemies. Wheri people tcoat me wrong 1 forgrve^them."
Before he was promoted to his present rank, Price
says he worked himself into the intensive care unit,
not knowing who or where he was.
"Instead of me telling everybody else what to do,"
says Price. 44I'd do it and 1 ended up in the hospital.-"
A hefty 6-1, 280-pounder, the day shift's third man
in charge contends with chiding from fellow
employees. As Price explains his new fruit diet,
which is supposed to last for seven days, Anthony
Parks, an emergency medical technician in the unit,
intervenes and says, "Yeah, then it's meat the rest of
the year."
Price laughs it off.
Full of childhood stories about growing up on his
grandmother's farm in Stokes County five miles
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north of Walnut Cove, his massive frame shakes w ith
laughter when he reminisces about his rock-throwing
and mischevious cousin James.
Price began his medical career as an equipment
manager at the old city hospital in 1952 when he was
18. He later took on a big responsibility.
"My income was so low when 1 got married," he
says, "that I had to go to work for Hanes at the dye
house."
In 1961, Price went to work as a stemmer for R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. Not long afterwards he took
on a second job and went back to the old city
hospital, only this time to work directly with the patients
as a nurse's assistant.
When Price was named head of all the third shift's
male nurses' assistants years later at Forsyth County
Hospital, he says he soon realized that he wanted a
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with every morning at 6:30 a.m., 30 minutes before
knock-off time.
"The lady in charge of nursing services didn't like
me," he says. "She always gave me a hard time
because 1 had to leave early in order to be at work at
Reynolds by 7 a.m. I did that for 17 years."
Since he couldn't get a transfer, Price finally quit
his job at Forsyth in 1968 and went to work with the
county's new emergency medical service unit.
Within six months, an enthusiastic Price was made
assistant supervisor. And a year and a naif later, he
was named head supervisor.
"I give God the praise for everything that I'va
done," he says.
An associate minister close to 13 years now, Price
says he would someday like to pastor his own church.
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For Capt. George Price, being a minister blenci
the county emergency medical unit (photo by
His gold name plate, embellished in black letters,
reads: Rev. George Price.
"Most everybody knows I'm a minister," he says.
Parks overhears and interrupts again, "Yeah, he
preaches to us all the time. 'Don't do this and don't
do that.'"
Again, Price laughs and continues with his conversation.
He knows it's all in fun.
It's seldom that Price rides along on the ambulances
anymore. His primary duty is to remain at
the station to channel calls, supervise and give ad
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And though he says he's no longer fast enough for
all the running, in the Walkertown community,
where he makes his home with his wife, Inez, people
know that Price still hasn't forgetten how to help
whenever and wherever he can.
"If the ambulance service out there needs help, I'll
do what J can to help," he says. "1 like where 1 live
out in the open.
"I always said, 'Give me a house by the roa\iside
and be a friend to man."
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