Posts Tagged: Medic
Two funerals in Virginia: Firefighter Zachary Whitacre, Gore VF&RD & Paramedic Joshua Weissman, Alexandria FD.
Live streaming on STATter911.com of Paramedic Weissman's funeral.
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Best of the Rest – ELAFF, Quick Drills, LODD’s, Brotherhood Cuts, and an Appeal for EMS LODD Benefits
Already this year, I have family or fire service trips scheduled for Nashville, Gatlinburg, Columbus x2, South Dakota, Aruba, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Chicago, DC, Denver, and New Jersey. Let me know if you want to meet up and I will tell you when I will be in town!
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Arrangements for Alexandria Fire Department Paramedic Joshua Weissman
Funeral will be Thursday in Alexandria.
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Alexandria (VA) Fire Department Paramedic Joshua Weissman dies after fall off of I-395 bridge. Watch raw video of press conference.
Radio traffic from car fire and rescue of paramedic
Previous coverage of this story
Alexandria Fire Department Paramedic Joshua Weissman has died at the Washington Hospital Center following his fall last night off a bridge carrying I-395 over Four Mi…
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Alexandria paramedic Joshua Weissman still critical after fall from overpass. Audio from car fire and rescue of medic.
Weissman is seven-year-veteran of the department.
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UPDATED – Alexandria, Virginia officals confirm Paramedic Joshua Weissman is critical after fall from I-395 bridge. CPR was started after removal from Four Mile Run creek.
Washington Post identifies medic as 33-year-old Josh Weissman.
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UPDATE – Two civilians dead in crash with San Bernardino County medic squad. Car crushed under rig.
Two firefighters hurt in crash.
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Detached
Detached
One thing that has remained pretty constant in the EMS education arena is that we train on mannequins. I can’t tell you how many plastic men I have killed over the years, but it has certainly been enough to make Charles Manson jealo…
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Quick Thoughts from the Zoll Summit2011
Great talk on Risk Management by Gordon Graham to start the day yesterday at the Zoll #Summit2011: "Predictable is preventable"- always strive to do better was his primary mantra. Lots more of his advice at www.lexipol.com. Gordon also advises: "Everyday…
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Humble Pie
For the purpose of this post I will use the term 'medic' a lot, but you can replace that title with EMT, nurse, doctor, or politician. I believe the concept still holds true.
In addition to working full time as a paramedic, I also take…
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The Future of Prediction
I have read the positions stating that calls for emergency services are completely random (justifying the reason they are often called "accidents") and therefore not able to be predicted. But both academic literature and practical experience show tha…
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Long overdue
Palm Island is inhabited by those who fish for a living, and those who are fishing for a few more days to live. The retiree population has been growing on the island, and the shrimpers have been having a great season this year. Even with the popula…
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DO NOT Watch This Video of a Medic Complaining about his Partner!
Don't do it! Don't watch this video of a medic complaining about his partner. I made it to the 2:46 mark and my ears started bleeding. Is this really what Medics talk about when they get around each other?
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EMS “Frequent Flyer” Abuse
A recent article at JEMS.com on EMS System Abuse told of examples of "frequent flyers" (that is non-emergency patients requesting multiple transports by EMS agencies on a fairly regular basis) many of which would be amusing if they weren't so sad. The …
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“No Available EMS”
No one really wants to read a bad story about some other EMS agency, but it is even worse to read a similar story about your own. The purpose of this post is not to make Detroit into some EMS "posterchild" but intended to shed some light on simil…
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Confidence via Emesis
A tale from the past...
With my EMS agency there are a few rewards that come with gaining seniority. One of these rewards that is extremely cherished by my peers and I, is having a sector. A sector is a list of about four or five stations that you…
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The Eye Opener
A tale from the past...
...I had just become a credentialed paramedic, and was cockier than ever.
It wasn’t long before they removed me from my three-person crew and put me on a truck of my own. I arrived at Medic 19 eager to work, and greeted …
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The Shot Heard ‘Round The Car
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Medic One respond to a 45 year old male, shot in the shoulder.
Dispatch Notes:
- This happened a few miles a way. The patient fled the scene and is now located in his vehicle.
- Then the notes updated …
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UPDATE: Shawnee, Kansas Firefighter John Glaser dies in house fire. Six-year veteran was father of two.
Thirty-three-year-old firefighter as a six-year member of the Shawnee Fire Department.
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Clarity
Well I did it. My doctor agreed with me that my symptoms seem very much like Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. She prescribed be Strattera
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Focus
Obviously I have been absent from posting here at medicthree.com. Part of this has been due to my efforts over at rootmedic.net, but mostly it has been due to a gamut of things... For a long time I have suffered from anxiety and some depressive tendencies. I have tried various PPI's over the years with limited help. Mostly I suffered from the side effects rather than benefited from them.
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Reality Check
As usual, the EMS blogosphere has found itself in yet another little tiff. This time Timothy Clemans and Medic22 are in a bit of disagreement about proper use of ALS, among other things.
Timothy seems to believe that ALS skills are wasted on patients that are not in risk of losing life or limb. While Medic22's way of responding to him might be over the top, I can TOTALLY understand how and why that would happen. See here and here. We all take this pretty damn seriously, so I understand the frustration.
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Stubborn
I am a stubborn guy. I know when I'm right, and I don't back down. As a matter of fact, my insistence on being right has alienated more than one person in my life. I just can't handle people who won't admit they are wrong.
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On the Truck
En Route to a Code 3 "Sick Person" my partner says....
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