EMS 2.0

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. The Special Forces of Healthcare: Becoming Force Multipliers in Emergency Care

A few months back, I engaged in a bit of trollery on Facebook and here on the blog when I asked readers to defend or refute the following statement: "Nobody in EMS is paid what they're worth. 25% are paid far less than what they're worth, and 75% are paid far more than what they're worth." The statement was in ...

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.

Sorry, bad idea. The Department of Homeland Security already has the TSA. It doesn't need another agency of poorly trained employees who touch people in intimate places, yet still can't prove that all the probulating actually makes us safer.

What is diffe.rent this time is the social media revolution

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.

… 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 ...

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.