Chronicles of EMS

Back in November 2010, I spoke about Three Percenters at the Texas EMS Conference. It's arguably the biggest state EMS conference in the country, yet its 3500 annual attendees barely represent 7% of the EMS providers in that state. If only half of those attendees were to bitch as long and loudly about the things that matter to the people who matter, instead of arguing the trivial amongst themselves, they could totally transform EMS in their state. The same holds true for your EMS agency and your state organization. We have the power to affect change within our organizations, if only we'd learn to bitch about the things that matter. Instead, we cut our own throats.

Mark answers questions on everything from what EMT training entails in the U.K., to medical direction, to differences in the U.K. EMS systems that allow paramedics to triage patients to places other than the ED, to the fact that Mark wears David Beckham pajamas, and was a founding member of Wham! before being replaced by Andrew Ridgely.

Only three days left to submit your entry to the EMS Week “I Was There” contest hosted by EMS1. Entry deadline is May 16. Get your submissions in! On Sunday, May 16, the gang at Chronicles of EMS will hold a multi-city meetup to celebrate EMS Week, during which there will be screenings of the Chronicles of EMS, and the ...

… there’s a new column on Chronicles of EMS and EMS 2.0 on EMS1. Enjoy.

After last Tuesday’s round of recoil therapy and ballistic mood enhancers, TOTWTYTR and I ventured south Wednesday morning to Baltimore, site of EMS Last Week Today. [Editor’s nip at the hand that feeds me: JEMS, you do a great job at this conference. The exhibit hall is great, the show is well-organized, with nationally known speakers presenting interesting topics, and ...