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Enhanced EMS Refusals? Read this, then look for more
I think I have a great idea here. Here's a link to my August JEMS.com column on Enhanced EMS refusals. I think it's an idea that we could start tomorrow. Have a read
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Three Percenters
Back in November 2010, I spoke about Three Percenters at the Texas EMS Conference. It's arguably the biggest state EMS conference in the country, yet its 3500 annual attendees barely represent 7% of the EMS providers in that state. If only half of those attendees were to bitch as long and loudly about the things that matter to the people who matter, instead of arguing the trivial amongst themselves, they could totally transform EMS in their state.
The same holds true for your EMS agency and your state organization. We have the power to affect change within our organizations, if only we'd learn to bitch about the things that matter. Instead, we cut our own throats.
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We Oughta Look In to This – EMS 2.0
I came across a company called "Mobile Doctors" and the seem to deliver what they promise. What can we learn from their business model?
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Change Medicare? Save EMS
The "Fee-for-Transport" revenue model has failed us. EMS has grown to fit the healthcare payment system and has limited so much of our profession's evolution. We need new revenue streams and innovation, not archaic regulation. Viva EMS!
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EMS: Neither Fish Nor Fowl Nor Good Red Meat
Sorry, bad idea. The Department of Homeland Security already has the TSA. It doesn't need another agency of poorly trained employees who touch people in intimate places, yet still can't prove that all the probulating actually makes us safer.
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Observations on EMS Today
What is diffe.rent this time is the social media revolution
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On Teaching, Mentoring and Stewardship
When a preceptor passes on that "practical experience and training,'' there are volumes of tradition, science, art, wisdom and bullshit encompassed in those four little words. The good preceptor passes on the collective wisdom - and sometimes, inadvertently, the bullshit - of our profession to the next generation, and I mean all of it; what EMS was, what EMS is, and what EMS should be. I'd say "what EMS will be," but so much of that depends upon how well that preceptor does his job.
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Remebering My Father, Chief Richard A. Kaiser
Has it really been 11 years? In rememberance of my father, I'm asking everyone out there to help me spread some of his legacy. Care to do me a favor?
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