The Ambulance Driver’s Perspective

… there’s a new column on EMS1. Has ACLS become a merit badge without merit? I invite your comments…

… there’s a new column on EMS1. Faith in EMS: My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma Enjoy, and chime in with your comments!

… I go all Tom Bouthillet on you in my latest clinical tip on EMS1. Enjoy.

… Top Ten Inappropriate Quotes To Use On The Job.   Enjoy.

There's a new column up on EMS1. The Stand-Back, Big-Picture, Non-Interventional Paramedic. Enjoy.

… Happy Valentine's Day.  

… I give you the 2012 EMS Year in Review Any other noteworthy EMS events you can think of for 2012? Let me know in the comments!

… I give you the Top Ten EMS Christmas Carols. And for those of you working tonight, may the night be slow enough you can find a good Chinese restaurant and sit down for an entire meal. "Deck the haws with boughs of horry, fah rah rah rah rah, rah  rah rah raaaaah…"

It's a hot-button topic, provoking visceral reactions from people on both sides of the issue. People seem unable to discuss the issue dispassionately, so much so that some blogger friends of mine have dashed off blog posts vehemently disagreeing with a position I didn't take. Go. Read. I invite your comments – either pro or con – but keep them ...

…there's a new column on EMS1.com. EMS: A Not-So-Exclusive Club. Enjoy.

Rescue 911 mastered the art of EMS stories with fairy tale endings. Seems like the entire post-Emergency generation of EMT's was inspired by Willim Shatner's narration of heroic EMS actions where everyone gets saved, the victims live happily ever after, and the EMT's all get invited to the birthday picnic a year later. So I guess it's only fair that ...

… there's a new column up on EMS1.com.   Enjoy!

… there's a new clinical tip on EMS1.com Apneic Oxygenation: Everything You Know Is Wrong. Enjoy!

… Top Ten ways to celebrate the last EMS Week ever. Enjoy!

… there's a roundtable discussion on the current state of airway management on EMS1.com. Go read, and weigh in with your comments. We'd love to hear them.