The Ambulance Driver’s Perspective

… our favorite fire chief, Isaac Abraham Fudpucker, has a new letter to his troops for Safety, Health and Survival Week. If you liked that one, try these: 2008 2009 2010 Enjoy!

… I have a new column up on EMS1.com. Top 10 Ways To Be a TV Medic.

… I've got an EMS Week column up on EMS1.com. Enjoy!

… but never a bride. The folks at Praetorian Group were up for a slew of the Western Publishing Association's 2011 Maggie Awards. My column on EMS1.com was a finalist in the category, "Best Regularly Featured Web or Digital Edition Column/Trade," an honor I also held in 2009. Sadly, I'll have to wait for some other year to give my ...

… there's a new clinical tip on EMS1. Some of you may already know it, but I learned at EMS Today that quite a few experienced EMT's still don't. Enjoy!

Is it time EMS gave up on endotracheal intubation?

… there’s  a new top ten list on EMS1. Read the Top Ten EMS New Year’s Resolutions. Enjoy!

… there’s a new column up at EMS1. read my Top Ten EMS events of 2010, and while you’re at it, visit the 2010 Year in Review page to read all the other columnists’ wrap-up of the EMS news of 2010. Enjoy.

… there’s a new clinical tip for you on EMS1. If you’ve ever documented AAOx4 on a patient care report or refusal, and felt safe doing it, here’s why you shouldn’t.

… over here on EMS1.com. Enjoy.

… over on EMS1, there’s a Top Ten List of words that should be in the EMS dictionary, but aren’t. Enjoy.

… there’s a new column on EMS1. Enjoy.

New clinical tip.

… there’s a new column up on EMS1. A snippet: All of this demonstrates two ugly facts about EMS that I suspect have been true since Jesus Christ performed the first successful resuscitation: everyone is an expert about someone else’s call, and EMTs eat their own kind. Read, enjoy, comment!

“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 ...