To Kneel or not to Kneel
“Muungh… What the heck was that!?” I thought to myself as I looked around the darkened room. “Where am I? Why am I awake? What IS that awful noise?” I thought. Something had awoken me from a...
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Police Car Drivers, Ambulance Drivers, and their responsibilities
Look at the pictures below and see if you can identify the three occupations represented by the people in the pictures. What are their jobs? What are their areas of expertise? What would you expect...
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I have been a busy, sleep deprived, lil’ medic
The title says it all… MAN have I been a busy guy. It’s summer and the boy is just fun as heck. We’ve been fishin’ and swimmin’ and boatin’ and doing the things that a father and son are supposed to do...
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You Can Nap if You Want To! Or You can Leave Your Calls Behind!
What a week! You’ve been pulling at least a double shift a week at your full-time ambulance job and have been hitting it pretty hard at your part-time job as well. Both services can’t seem to keep...
View ArticleShining through Suffering – Learning How to Cope with Sadness in EMS
Medic Trommashear, who writes great stuff has offered to co-post with me on this. You can check it out at her blog: http://lookingthroughapairofpinkhandledtraumashears.com/...
View ArticleA Weighted Issue – The Fire Service Helping Private EMS
There has been quite a bit of buzz lately over a story that happened pretty close to my generic neck of the woods. It’s been featured on www.JEMS.com as well as www.EMS1.com and has blown up the...
View ArticleWake Up! You may have a call…
Every so often the discussion of the most healthy and appropriate way to wake a sleeping firefighter or EMS person from their slumber in order to alert them to the presence of a call for service crops...
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Heat Emergencies for EMS – The Summer Time Blues
It’s just about here! Summer time is awesome in where I live. It almost makes those long winter months seem worth it. Almost. With the warm weather close upon us it’s time to review some of the common...
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FIrefighter Pre-Hydration – Fight Fire like a Marathon Runner
Has anybody else noticed that it’s sweltering outside? There’s no other way to describe the oppressive heat we’ve been facing without trotting out the word “sweltering.” The word itself is almost fun...
View ArticleWorking Out on Shift – Any tips out there?
This may come as a shock to you, but I’m an out of shape paramedic. Sure, I’m only in an XL uniform shirt and my size 36 EMS pants I got when I was 20 still fit (Really! Pro-Tuff is/was an amazing...
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