The Ambulance Driver’s Perspective

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

For you EMS types, there’s a new post on EMS1 about cocaine bear animal attacks. If there’s anything scarier than an angry mama bear with cubs, it’s an angry mama bear that’s high on cocaine. The only bright side is that rarely will you encounter a mama bear high on cocaine who is actually with her cubs. She probably left ...

From my EMS1 column: When you’re new and inexperienced, it’s difficult to separate good practices from bad, and you’re particularly susceptible to believing it when some lazy burnout proclaims, “There’s the way it’s done in class, kid, and there’s the way it’s done on the street.” As author Stewart Stafford puts it, “Separate text from context and all that remains ...

Play Tiger King, the Home Game on EMS1.

“If there’s a place you want to go, I can get you there I know, I’m the map. If there’s a place you need to get, I can get you there I bet, I’m the map. I’m the map, I’m the map, I’m the MAP!” ~ Dora the Explorer   Read, enjoy, opine.

… there’s a new column on EMS1. IAFC’s Human Dignity Statement is a Good Start, But Not Enough Read, share, opine. And above all, be nicer to each other.

… there’s a new column on EMS1. Epinephrine and the Paramedic-2 Trial: Is It Time to Pull Our Starting Pitcher?   Read, discuss, opine.

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. The Anti-Axiom Axiom. Read. Enjoy. Opine.

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. Top 10 Events That Should Be in the EMS Winter Olympics   Enjoy!  

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. The Opiate Addiction Backlash. Read. Enjoy. Share. Opine.

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Enjoy!

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. Ignorance and Apathy in EMS Providers Read, enjoy, comment.

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. Stop bragging about your emotional pain, instead be proud of overcoming it. Enjoy, and share with your friends.

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. Service is what you can give the vast majority of your patients who are neither emergent nor truly in need of medicine. It’s the way you can make a bad day for someone a little bit better, no matter how trivial the gesture or mundane the task seemed at the time. It’s ...

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There. Read, enjoy, share.