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In an Instant

By in Life Under the Lights at May 22, 2010 at 10:04 am
This is a therapy session for me. An incident that happend to me years ago has been haunting my mind lately and I thought writing it down would help. Spoiler alert: The kid dies at the end. Read More »

Comfort from a Nurse during EMS week

By in Life Under the Lights at May 17, 2010 at 11:44 am
A shoutout to @seejanenurse - a blogger of the nursing persuasion that wrote a great post honoring EMS week. You should read it. Read More »

Negativity, you won’t find that here.

By in Life Under the Lights at March 4, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Why do you read EMS blogs? Do you think that we can change this thing we call EMS? Obviously, I do... but I'm asking you this time. Read More »

A Shoutout to Emergiblog – Every EMS person should read this

By in Life Under the Lights at February 21, 2010 at 1:28 pm
This is a link to a post that EVERY paramedic and EMT should read. I mean really. Go to Emergiblog and read this post. Then try substituting the word "Paramedic" every time the word "Nurse" comes up. Read More »

Some Personal Updates 2/19/10

By in Life Under the Lights at February 19, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Some personal bloggery updating Read More »

The Chronicles of EMS – Day 3?? Who knows, I’m flying

By in Life Under the Lights at February 13, 2010 at 9:54 pm
I am flying. I am so freaking happy that I came to San Francisco! Just.. wow. 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 »

Thank you EMS – Some reasons I love what I do

By in Life Under the Lights at February 9, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Have you thought for a minute why you do what you do? I have.. and today I'm writing down what it is I love about my chosen profession. EMS is awesome most days. Read More »

Why I am Passionate about the Chronicles of EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at February 8, 2010 at 5:38 pm
I am energized, passionate, and genuinely excited about the Chronicles of EMS. I'm in 100% - Here's why you should be too. Read More »

“CPR Theatre” – Pediatric Deaths, resuscitations, and futility

By in Life Under the Lights at January 5, 2010 at 8:53 am
This post is a cooperative joint topic with two widely respected EMS bloggers, Steve Whitehead from Http://www.TheEMTspot.com and Greg Friese, from Http://www.EveryDayEMStips.com – Our topic is supposed to be on why it is that EMTs, Paramedics, and oth… Read More »

My Biggest Blogging Fears and Heart Attacks

By in Life Under the Lights at December 10, 2009 at 5:01 pm
What's my biggest fear as an EMS blogger? I'll tell ya that it's probably something that most EMTs and Paramedics are secretly afraid of too. Oh, and I put some stuff about cardiac care in here too for some reason. Just read it, please. Read More »

Paramedics Providing Physicals? Decreasing Healthcare Costs and Improving Care – EMS 2.0

By in Life Under the Lights at December 8, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Brainstorming ways that Paramedics and EMS could improve the Healthcare system and save money is part of EMS 2.0. Could a paramedic provide your next annual physical exam? Maybe we should. Read More »

Changing the EMS World – The Chronicles of EMS

By in Life Under the Lights at November 18, 2009 at 6:59 pm
So I got my butt kicked by a limey... but I also rediscovered my passion. Fair trade, I think. 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 »

EMS 2.0, Bernoulli, Fluid Dynamics, and Changing the World

By in Life Under the Lights at September 28, 2009 at 1:20 am
Today the Boy was playing with one of the junk mail “newspapers” that we get involuntarily delivered to our home when I thought of a way to actually make it useful. I tore off a long, narrow piece of it and made him a Bernoulli strip to play with. Fo… Read More »

BREAKING NEWS – This just in!!

By in Life Under the Lights at September 26, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Lumo from My Life in A&E is a girl.A crack team of researchers working around the clock has determined that Lumo is indeed a female (and we're told that she's an aesthetically pleasing one, as well) and that all rumors, or comments describing he… Read More »

The Handover Blog Carnival – Funniest. Call. Ever – 9/25/2009

By in Life Under the Lights at September 25, 2009 at 1:35 am
EMS people are some funny, funny, people. Oh sure, some of our humor is strange to the uninitiated. It's dark and disturbing sometimes... built from years of bearing witness to the macabre scenes of humanity that play out before us. Sometimes it's more s… Read More »

I am not a medic…but I am Ck’s cousin…and he said "funny"…

By in Life Under the Lights at September 24, 2009 at 1:04 am
This post was written by my cousin Jill. She’s a darn good blogger who writes a blog on her Myspace page. I’m trying to get her to move over to blogger… but have yet to be successful in my endeavors. She wrote this post for this month’s Handover.… Read More »

Working on the Handover – Comedic Heavy Lifting

By in Life Under the Lights at September 23, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Remember those commercials for the cable TV station TBS that ran here in the US where they had the "Comedy Lab" testing stuff to see if it is funny?Well, this month's Handover Blog Carnival is WAY better than that.Remember back when Family Guy, The Simps… Read More »

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