How to make a fool of yourself...
It's a painfully slow friday night. Something that doesn't happen very often. While your average week-end night is fun-filled with back to back calls related to alcohol, fighting and domestic issues,...
View ArticleGetting started...
I don't exactly know why I started this blog and to be honest I'm a little excited to find out where it goes from here.I'm not much of a writer, or so I thought. But I'll leave that up to you, the...
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Paramedic Poem
Here's something I found on the net. Sadly I don't know the author, but if you do let me know so I can give credit where credit is due.The medic stood and faced God.Which must always come to pass.He...
View ArticleWhat makes me tick...
When people who don't know me ask me what I do for a living and I tell them that I am a paramedic, usually one of two responses are headed my way, and I'm sure you are familiar with this.#1 "Whoa,...
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Unacceptable risks...
The other day I stumple upon an interesting post on 9-Echo-1's Blog.He has a very serious point about emergency care providers not beeing retraint in the back of a moving ambulance. Go and read his...
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EMS in Germany
Here's are Post I just wrote at Chronicles of EMS. Enjoy.I just recently joined this site and I instantly fell in love with the project. I think this is great way to facilitate social media to broaden...
View ArticleImprovements in pain scoring
In modern medicine there are breakthroughs happening left and right on a daily basis. A new and improved pain scoring technique especially developed for emergent care provider, both pre-hospital and in...
View ArticleEMS in Germany, Part II
I wrote an article about EMS in Germany the other day and ran out of time to give you a little more in-dept look into our system. I've been pretty swamped lately, but I've found some time to write up...
View ArticleBad Luck comes in...
....threes, usually. This time it got one-upped.Some strange stroke of fate lead to four unrelated ALS patients within a 100 yard radius. It all started when patient A called EMS for shortness of...
View ArticleIrony...
A day after the United States honored their soldiers and veterans commemorating Memorial Day, an American WWII aerial bomb exploded in the city of Göttingen, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), killing three...
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Toiletries
Apparently there is this meme going around, where bloggers let their audiences know what they read, when they get "down to buisness". It all started with a certain Lissa, of which until today I have...
View ArticleCoEMS first hand - InsomniacMedic
Earlier this month I had two weeks of vacation. Initially I wanted to travel to Spain, but that didn't work out in the end. So decided travel around in Germany the first week and visit friends who I...
View ArticleBlue Balls
I am Jack's blue swollen testicle.That's what crossed my mind in a fight club-esque narrated voice when I saw the huge blue sphere that once was his testicle, followed by multiple damns and ouches....
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Beechcraft down!
Last night I was sitting in front on my blog about to write a post about how I feel like I am the definition of a white cloud. I've now been working for a week after I came back from my vacation and...
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Personal Protection and you!
Today I was working with a Paramedic student, who has just started his field rotation last month. He had been an EMT before he went to P-school and gained a good years experience during that time. We...
View ArticleSo many questions...
Why had the life guard passed her location a moment to early?Why was your mom out of sight at that very moment?Why weren't you wearing your water wings that day? Did you forget them at home?Why did no...
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