Been seeing some news about EMS providers being charged criminally for medication errors. Will providers start thinking twice before giving a treatment if they don’t have too? This and tips on treating transgender patients. Do we really need them? Take a listen below Free Membership===> Turbo Medic Insider. Get a variety of study and review resources …
I’m writing this on September 10, so I don’t know what tomorrow will bring as we observe the Twentieth year since America was attacked by foreign terrorists intent on destroying our financial system as well as the seat of government and the headquarters of our military. The succeeded in bring down both high towers of …
It’s September, so that means it’s Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (PCAM). Lung cancer is non sexist, as it kills both sexes indiscriminately. Behind that for men, is Prostate Cancer. Behind lung cancer for women is breast cancer. For men, due to increased awareness, increased testing, and earlier treatment, the five year survival rate 99%. According …
Many months ago I heard an EMS medical director on a COVID webinar say, “You’ll either get vaccinated or you’ll get COVID.” To me, getting COVID and hoping for the best is a big gamble with bad odds. A couple of days after an LAFD captain self-recorded a video about the “tyranny” of a vaccine …
Albert Einstein is reputed to have said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” People quibble over whether or not he actually said that, and if it’s true. I don’t know if it’s the definition of insanity, but it sure is the definition of stupidity. I …
Rob Lawrence, the host of the EMS One Stop podcast, sat down with Jay Fitch and me on the final day of Pinnacle to discuss the conference, speakers and our top takeaways. Give a listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. http://everydayemstips.com/
On the weekend of August 14-15 the situation in Afghanistan and particularly Kabul was dire. The Taliban had taken over most of the country and more importantly captured the Presidential Palace and the American Embassy. The Afghan National Army had cut and run, leaving the Taliban to take over the former American stronghold of Bagram …
I wanted to share this NREMT exam struggle story on passing the NREMT. One of my coaching students thought they knew it all. But when his classmates where moving ahead he was stuck behind and feeling like he was being laughed at. True of not, it can be very unsettling when you feel your peers …
Alternate title is “The Insurrection That Wasn’t.” Even though the FBI arrested over 570 people who were at the January 6 Insurrection, they haven’t charged even one person with participating in an insurrection. Keep in mind that there were no guns carried by these so called insurrectionists. Keep in mind that with one exception everyone …
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Just did an interview with Lights Cameras Action and we talked about a variety of topics including: The EMS testing environment The importance of call reviews (even lift assists) How to be prepared for potential opportunities when they come up. Not while they happen Jim’s 9/11 experience Plus more, including some inside takes on TM …
Afghan official says troops surrender Bagram air base to Taliban; base is home to prison housing 5,000 inmates This will make it much harder, if not impossible, to evacuate military and civilian personnel from the country. Several thousand American and coalition civilian and military personnel are now in extreme danger of being killed or captured …
The 15th Pinnacle EMS Leadership Forum, organized and hosted by Fitch & Associates, was held last week at the JW Marriott at Desert Ridge in Phoenix. EMS1 and Fitch presented the findings of the 2021 EMS Trend Report during a Thursday morning session. Download the report here. I attended many excellent sessions and wrote about …
A brief update to my previous post. This is Michael Osterholm PhD, MPH speaking on CNN. He’s one of the President Biden’s top advisors on Covid 19. He says the exact thing I said in my previous post. Only N95 masks can protect the wearer from the virus. Notice that he says that people in …
On the eve of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, I pondered what we can learn from the Olympians in this EMS1 article: What public safety professionals can learn from Olympians Enjoy and go Team USA! http://everydayemstips.com/
I laugh, derisively, at friends and relatives who try to lecture me on medical topics. I’m obviously not a doctor and never pretend to be. On the other hand, I spent a lot of time working with and learning from doctors. Those doctors included some men and women who were professors of medicine at a …