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I am not immune

By in Life Under the Lights at December 10, 2010 at 7:32 am
This is a personal thank you and a word of advice to every EMS person out there. We aren't immune to what we think we're immune to. Read More »

A Late-Night Rant about Petty Politics in EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at October 27, 2010 at 1:36 am
Tonight, I had a bit of a rant that I let fly... Who am I kidding, it was a full-blown Hissy. I'm tired of the politics in EMS and I'm ranting about it. If I start the change, will you join me? Read More »

A Weighted Issue – The Fire Service Helping Private EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at September 17, 2010 at 1:32 pm
The EMS news outlets are jumpin and there's a disagreement among EMS people out there. What's your take? Read More »

What Difference Does EMS Make? Choose Your Own Ending

By in Life Under the Lights at September 7, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I got a little philisophical with this post and I'd like you to pick the ending I should use. What do the three cases I present mean to you? Read More »

EMS: Is what you do the Best You Can Do?

By in Life Under the Lights at August 19, 2010 at 12:41 am
"Is that the best you can do?" Those seven words are so simple, yet when asked of ourselves and others, can become so powerful. Is what you're doing in your EMS career the "best" you can do? Think of what we could accomplish if all simply "tried our best". Read More »

Four Words: EMS, Apathy, Disgrace, Massachusetts.

By in Life Under the Lights at July 9, 2010 at 10:31 pm
You've heard about the Mass. 200, right? Well, this is my take on it. The system may be broken, but they needed to do more than just ignore it. There's more. Read More »

Saved by the Bell? High School Student EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at March 29, 2010 at 8:35 am
Remember High School? I do. I was the geeky kid who did show choir. I played football too, though. I was young, naive, and inexperienced. I also desperately wanted to be on an ambulance before I was 18. Was that a good idea? Some communities are doing just that. I was for it... but should I have been? Read More »

Huddled Masses. Healthcare. Honor. EMS.

By in Life Under the Lights at March 25, 2010 at 11:26 am
Undocumented Immigrants? Illegal Immigration? Where do we stand on this as EMS professionals? What do we do? Read More »

Trust… It’s everything

By in Life Under the Lights at March 15, 2010 at 12:29 am
This post is about when "Stuff gets real". It's about trusting your colleagues and yourself to perform when everything's on the line. It's about trusting your fellow EMTs and paramedics to perform when it's your loved-one on the line. Do you trust them? Do you trust yourself? Read More »

Any Random Person

By in Life Under the Lights at March 11, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Hey, I could do that ALS stuff. Any Random Person could do some of that stuff. Right? Well, I counter that it takes a VERY SPECIAL KIND of random person to be a good ALS provider. Read More »

Two Cases, One letter – From one Paramedic’s struggles, change can come

By in Life Under the Lights at February 25, 2010 at 5:48 pm
A letter I got from a fellow Paramedic has caused me to write a long tyrade on the state of EMS. This post will make you mad. It will challenge you and challenge our profession. You will probably see yourself in the words this Paramedic wrote to me. We Need Change. Read More »

Pop! Changes the Industry… Here We Go!

By in Life Under the Lights at February 11, 2010 at 4:43 pm
In 4hrs I am heading off to San Francisco for the Chronicles of EMS - This is it folks, it's big. Come on and join us! Read More »

Are We the Gatekeepers to the Emergency Healthcare System? – EMS 2.0

By in Life Under the Lights at January 21, 2010 at 1:16 am
EMS 2.0 has so much potential to save billions in unneccesary healthcare costs here in the US. Could this be an example? In this scenario, I tell the story of what I've put into practice since the Chronicles of EMS came on the scene. Read More »

Everyday EMS Ethics – Thoughts on Ethical Behavior in EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at December 2, 2009 at 12:04 pm
These are some thoughts on ethics in EMS for street-level paramedics and EMTs with some tidbits for organizational leaders as well. What is EMS Ethics? It's how to become better people while we make people better. Read More »

Everyday EMS Ethics – Social Media and “Smart” phones?

By in Life Under the Lights at December 1, 2009 at 1:10 am
Are "smart" phones and social media too much of a temptation for some? This Everyday EMS Ethics post looks into our ethical standards with Social Media and the Emergency Services. Read More »

Dear State of Illinois EMS…

By in Life Under the Lights at October 28, 2009 at 5:32 pm
State of Illinois EMS... We have to have a little talk. Can we save our relationship? Read More »

The Drunk Responder

By in Life Under the Lights at October 22, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Greg Friese, over at Everday EMS Tips, has written a post in observance of Drug Free Work Week - Oct 19-25th, 2009 entitled "When a Coworker is Intoxicated" In it, he asks what we would do as EMS professionals and Firefighters in cases where we suspect … Read More »

EMS 2.0 – Momentum Building

By in Life Under the Lights at October 21, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Over the last few days since I’ve been putting some posts up on EMS 2.0 there’s been quite a buzz circulating around the blogosphere. From this vantage point, it seems like we’re building some momentum to the movement and that is really exciting fo… Read More »

Welcome to hell, feet

By in Life Under the Lights at October 21, 2009 at 12:03 pm
A while back ago, like Medic999, I was approached by Magnum Boot company about becoming a field tester for a new pair of boots. They asked me to wear their new boots for a while and write about them in my “Popular EMS Blog”. They’d send me new boot… Read More »

Happy Wednesday!

By in Life Under the Lights at October 21, 2009 at 10:28 am
One thing I've noticed since moving to this new blog network (Http://www.FireEMSblogs.com if you haven't been to the main page yet) is that my blogging worklad has increased exponentially.  The other thing that I've noticed is that I've been getting men… Read More »

A Shoutout to TOTWTYTR – The NAEMT? What?

By in Life Under the Lights at October 19, 2009 at 6:18 pm
I'm linking to TOTWTYTR, one of my favorite bloggers. I'm also calling out the NAEMT. Is there anyone who supports this group? Would someone come here and explain to me what the NAEMT does? Read More »

Ol’ Butch and the Pullet Surprise – Not EMS but good stuff

By in Life Under the Lights at October 19, 2009 at 6:02 pm
John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced. This took a lot of … Read More »

EMS 2.0 & EMS Ethics – How far would you go?

By in Life Under the Lights at October 18, 2009 at 10:05 pm
EMS 2.0's going to need us to find answers to questions we haven't even asked yet. This is one of them. Where is the line between "progressive" protocols and "I ain't getting paid enough"? Read More »

Advances in Resuscitation – CCR If you’re not doing it now, you will be

By in Life Under the Lights at October 17, 2009 at 3:54 pm
New advances in the fight agains Sudden Cardiac Arrest - There's some exciting results here. We seem to be getting a fighting chance. 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 »

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