Goodbye

A blank page
To purge the pain.

Expectations

Kelly Grayson wrote in this article: 

'Partners tend to meet the expectations you set for them.

The Classical Model of EMS Education, or The Danger of Eating Our Young

THE CLASSICAL MODEL OF EDUCATION

According to the classical model of education, every learner passes through three stages: grammar, dialectic, and rhetorical.

Frustration

I love prehospital care. Emergency, NET, wilderness, critical, community, flight, ground, I love it all. I live and breathe it and always have. But some nights I just want to quit. It's not the patients, scenes, or calls. It's not nightmares or PTSD. It's not yet another drunk or threat or 911-for-a-stubbed-toe.

The Paramedic Paradigm

It’s a question few in EMS have avoided asking:

Should an EMT gain experience on the street or go straight to paramedic school?

Must We Reinvent the Wheel?

While I realize that emergency responders have existed throughout history (Tell Me the Old Stories), I acknowledge that EMS as a formal profession is relatively new. The field is experiencing growing pains—some would even say it’s in crisis. In this new world of capnography, clotting agents, and community paramedics, we are confronted with new challenges and problems.

Tell Me the Old Stories

In response to High Performance EMS' Post: We Need Some New Stories.
I’m a little weary of hearing that EMS is a new discipline. Of course, no one can deny the impact of WW1, and it’s true that the White Paper is still less than 50 years old.

A Culture of Cool

I have worked with several services in different states. I’ve worked with cruddy medics and with some of the very best.