Skip to content

Posts Categorized: Ambulance Driver

A Slap in the Face to Paramedics Everywhere?

By in Life Under the Lights at April 26, 2010 at 1:55 am
Maybe I'm way off base here, but I'm just plain ol' irate. I saw this ambulance on display at FDIC last weekend and I think it's a full-on slap in the face to paramedic types like myself. It's real, I took the picture myself. Read More »

Red Lights to the Left of them, Blue to the right! – Coloring Emergency Lighting

By in Life Under the Lights at April 7, 2010 at 8:20 am
Ever pull over for a tow-truck or a snow plow? What's up with the lack of a standard for emergency lighting colors? It's confusing as heck.. Read More »

EMS 2.0 – What are our Core Beliefs?

By in Life Under the Lights at October 24, 2009 at 5:59 pm
What are the core beliefs for EMS 2.0? This is an "Audience participation" post. How much momentum can we build? Read More »

The Medics are Revolting

By in Life Under the Lights at October 15, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Welcome to my new blog. Allow me to head off on a rant here, no use pulling any punches. EMS Needs some changin'. Here's how we're going to do it. Hint: It's together Read More »

Ckemtp is now on Twitter and Facebook!

By in Life Under the Lights at October 14, 2009 at 8:57 pm
So I've finally joined the final frontier or something like that. After much prodding, teasing, cajoling, and downright coersion, Ckemtp has joined Facebook and Twitter.I'm Ckemtp on facebook and, coincidentally, @Ckemtp on Twitter (I think).At any rate,… Read More »

Paying My Pennance

By in Life Under the Lights at October 13, 2009 at 2:59 am
Ouch. Today I begin what I am sure to be a long, arduous process of atoning for my every IV sin. Out of the tens of thousands of patients I’ve treated, I’ve gained intraveinous access thousands of times. Probably I’ve missed a thousand or two … Read More »

Two blogs that I found in this long week that are just awesome

By in Life Under the Lights at October 12, 2009 at 2:58 am
This is a light week for me, or at least a 7 day period. Yesterday I worked a 12, today a 24, tomorrow a 12, the next day a 24. Then I have a day off, then a 24 then a 12. So by my count, since Saturday and until Friday I'll have worked 108 hou… Read More »

Soapy Demons – Ckemtp is a geek

By in Life Under the Lights at October 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Ok, so this post really proves just how much of a geek I really am. Just bear with me for a bit. This subject causes me a lot of personal grief. I know that it probably shouldn’t and that I am indeed a geek for worrying about this issue because seem… Read More »

If I wasn't so busy running calls today…

By in Life Under the Lights at October 9, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I would get a post up about EMS Ethics and patient advocacy involving a scenario for y'all...I would get more done on my new upcoming site that's going live (probably) early next week: http://www.lifeunderthelights.com/I would write a response to an… Read More »

Oh no you didn’t…

By in Life Under the Lights at March 31, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Really? Did you just?? Oh come on now… you don't really think??Seriously…Did you really just call me an "Ambulance Driver"?An Ambulance Driver? Oh come on… Four years of college level classes, hundreds upon hundreds of hours of continuing education… Read More »

EMS people in the audience

By in Life Under the Lights at March 23, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I have an awesome set of protocols from somewhere, I don't know how I got these and I don't know who will be using them (to protect privacy). These are draft protocols being considered for adoption by a small EMS system. If you e-mail me at proems1@yahoo… Read More »

This is an amazing video

By in Life Under the Lights at March 23, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Thomas Paine - Common Sense for 2009 While this could label this blog as overtly political, and if I do that it mostly won't be here per se, I do think that anyone who comes here should know that I believe in what this guy says. Maybe not word for word… Read More »

Good Link to Something I like

By in Life Under the Lights at March 22, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I found this link on one of the EMS websites I frequent - http://www.emsvillage.com/http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/columns/Bledsoe/Bledsoes_EMS_Scope_of_Practice_Model.htmlThis is Dr. Bledsoe's EMS scope of practice model. In this document, he out… Read More »

What to write about, what to write about

By in Life Under the Lights at March 20, 2009 at 10:24 pm
As some of you have noted, I haven't been posting as often as I was. I'd like to assure you that this is not because of writers' block or lack of ideas, in fact, if anything it's because I have too many ideas. Right now, my desktop has like some 15window… Read More »

It’s a beautiful day!!

By in Life Under the Lights at March 16, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Oh my goodness it is such a beautiful day wherever I am in Southern Wisconsin and/or Northern Illinois!!60 something degrees today, and a high of 70, count-em, seventy whole degrees tomorrow! And then snow on Wednesday… just a chance of flurries, it wo… Read More »

Featuring WPMU Bloglist Widget by YD WordPress Developer

Better Tag Cloud