Administration & Leadership

On Teaching, Mentoring and Stewardship

When a preceptor passes on that "practical experience and training,'' there are volumes of tradition, science, art, wisdom and bullshit encompassed in those four little words. The good preceptor passes on the collective wisdom - and sometimes, inadvertently, the bullshit - of our profession to the next generation, and I mean all of it; what EMS was, what EMS is, and what EMS should be. I'd say "what EMS will be," but so much of that depends upon how well that preceptor does his job.

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Anytime. Anywhere. We’ll Be There.

“Thank you so much for coming, young man,”  the old woman tells me, for the fourth time this call. “I don’t know what I would have done without you.” Her voice is frail, querulous. She seems grateful and apologetic at the same time. “It’s no problem, Ma’am,”  I assure her with a warm smile. “This is what we do.” “It’s ...

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

What’s in a name? Everything, apparently. Over at the JEMS Magazine Facebook page, they apparently link to my posts fairly frequently. And whenever they do, the indignant remarks about the title of my blog usually far outnumber the reasoned comments about the content therein. Every post, without fail, there’s an avalanche of “ZOMG! I went to school  for [insert length ...

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EMS 2.0: Where’s Our Martin Luther?

For you EMS types, particularly the ones who are involved in the ongoing discussion of EMS 2.0, there’s a new column on the subject at EMS1. Leave your comments and suggestions here, there, and at the links posted. We need to hear your voices.

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