Posts Categorized: Profession
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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Colorado CRNAs Vs. Virginia Physicians? An interesting feud for EMS
This article caught my interest, it's a feud between CRNAs and Anesthesiologists from Colorado to Virgina. There's a lot to learn here for EMS 2.0.
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What Difference Does EMS Make? Choose Your Own Ending
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?
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EMS: Is what you do the Best You Can Do?
"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".
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Paramedics and EMTs are Special, a salute to the Spork!
The humble spork, the very symbol of efficiency, ingenuity, and ineffective eating performance. How does the spork tie in with EMS? Very well, actually. We are sporks and we're not sporks. It's complex... you'll see
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Master Paramedics? I’m asking you a question
I have a question for all of you readers out there. Trade Unions have always honored their best and most experienced members by bestowing the title of "Master". How would we in the Profession of EMS honor our own Masters?
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EMS 2.0 as Explained to My Brother
I had a good conversation with my brother the other day. We talked about this "blogging" stuff I do and the topic turned to EMS 2.0. Guess what he wants me to do?
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EMS Week 2010 – Sent to the Newspaper
I wrote this piece in honor of EMS week 2010 and sent it to my local newspaper. You might want to do the same. This is appropriate for the public and you may use it as you see fit.
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A Slap in the Face for Medics? How about a Wake-up call
Following up to the "A Slap in the Face to Paramedics Everywhere?" Post, this is how I see it once I've calmed down a bit. It is a slap, but it should serve as a wake-up call for EMS.
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A Slap in the Face to Paramedics Everywhere?
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.
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Trust… It’s everything
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?
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Guest Post – From JDmedic on Two Cases, One Letter
A response to a recent post "Two Comments, One Letter - From One Paramedic's Struggles, Change Can Come" sparked a good guest post from one of my readers. This is a guest post by JDmedic. Nice job.
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Two Cases, One letter – From one Paramedic’s struggles, change can come
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.
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Thank you EMS – Some reasons I love what I do
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.
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Why I am Passionate about the Chronicles of EMS
I am energized, passionate, and genuinely excited about the Chronicles of EMS. I'm in 100% - Here's why you should be too.
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Expanding Our Career Options – Non-Traditional EMS Jobs
Paramedics and EMTs aren't pigeonholed into our tradidional roles. With a bit of forward thinking, we can expand our professional talents into a lot of industries. Can you help? Join in the discussion.
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Life Under the Lights – From behind the Windshield
This post goes out to my blogger buddy @medicthree - (http://www.medicthree.com) whose been having a few rough shifts lately. If you’ve been having a few rough ones lately, this one’s for you too. It’s kind of a rambling, disjointed post about emotions in EMS. It made me feel better to write it. Here’s hoping that it makes you feel better to read it.
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Fiddling While Rome Burns – The “Ambulance Industry”
If you read this piece and it ticks you off, I've accomplished something. We have to take ownership of our profession and our cause. It's always about the patient, but it's about us too... are we taking a cue from Emperor Nero?
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EMS Pay Sucks!! (part 3) – Who or What is at fault here!?
Welcome back to the Life Under the Lights Bar and Grille - This is the third installment of my EMS Pay Sux!! Series of articles. This one calls every argument you've ever heard on this issue "crap" and lays out three simple problems that we must tackle to solve our problem sooner, rather than later.
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Thanking Those who REALLY Deserve it – Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to All and to All a good night! Who should we really be thanking this Christmas? It's not me, I'll tell you that.
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Education vs Training: The “Professional Ambulance Cleaner”
Imagine if you will this hypothetical scenario:
You and your roommate have just graduated EMT school together and go to work at competing ambulance companies in the same city. He works for HIS ambulance service, and you work for YOUR ambulance service. Both services have similar fleets, similar deployment patterns, and similar call-volumes. In fact, there’s really no way to tell them apart other than the fact that the HIS ambulance service uniforms are sickly green jumpsuits, and YOUR ambulance uniforms are Macho Blue Shirts with navy blue pants.
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A Motivational EMS Article Geared towards Newer EMTs
This is a motivational piece geared towards new EMTs that I wrote for a department's monthly newsletter. Feel free to steal it to inspire your own troops.
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Sunday Randomness – Some EMS Pet Peeves
My Sunday Randomness seems to have devolved into a rant about some of my pet peeves in EMS. There's some old crusty complaints in there, I know... but every dang one of them will improve your care.
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The Profession that is EMS
(Attention: I edited this post heavily. I think that my ADD was in full effect when I wrote it. It's better now, I think)The results are in: the bloggers, posters, commentators, columnists, partners, colleagues, and other people even passively involved i…
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I Got a Day off Today #2
My lovely fiancé (The wedding is May 30th and yes, we're riding in a fire truck from the Church to the Reception) is working the BLS truck at the private ambulance service that she works at. They're busy down there. The service puts up 3 or 4 ALS trucks…
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