April 2009

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  PANDEMIC SHMANDEMIC

  04.28.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I do not want to marginalize the impact that the recent deaths in Mexico have had on the victims of swine flu and their families.  However, a sane and rational discussion of the actual threat of this outbreak should make us all seem a bit silly in the light of morning.  Media fear mongering and [...]

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  A NEED TO KNOW BASIS PART TRES: A PIG DEFROCKED

  04.26.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In my last two posts I have painted a very bleak picture for paramedics.  The previous entries can be found here and here.  But I don’t want to seal up our coffin yet.  Then I would just be somebody who bitches and moans about the problems in EMS, but never provides any solutions.  I am [...]

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  A NEED TO KNOW BASIS PART DEUX: A PIG IN A DRESS

  04.25.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  This is the second installment in my rant about the interlopers to our profession. As promised, I will attempt to explain how things got like this. It is important to know that it might not be this bad yet in your location. It depends on where you work. I was a guest not long ago [...]

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  A NEED TO KNOW BASIS

  04.18.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I have noticed something over the last few years that has alarmed me. To be honest it has made me reconsider what I do for a living, and wonder whether or not I should get out of teaching all together. It started just a couple of years ago, and has gotten steadily worse until the [...]

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  ZERO HOUR: AMERICA’S MEDIC

  04.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  On our last episode of the EMSEduCast, we talked at length with Gregg Lord about Zero Hour: America’s Medic.  This is a video game simulation tool for EMS professionals meant to give responders the opportunity to experience a mass casualty scenario.  To be honest, as a game it leaves a lot to be desired.  But [...]

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  BLUE SKY SOLUTIONEERING FOR EMS

  04.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Everyone experiences change at some point in life. Some have the tools to meet these challenges, and some do not. That is why I have started my new motivational and consulting group.  Blue Sky Solutioneering© is not so much a concept as it is an idea. It is not so much an idea as it [...]

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  CAN SIMULATION BE TOO REAL?

  04.03.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  My good friend Greg Friese shared this with me during the EMSEduCast tonight. He was in Israel doing a tour of a patient simulation lab and came across this proctology simulator. Well, they went for realism. They got the facial expression right, that’s for sure.  We like to keep our options open for realistic invasive [...]

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  TUBERCULICIOUS

  04.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  A student of mine called me the other day and complained that his employer refused to give him a TB test on the grounds that it was not necessary. He came to me because he knows that I am an angry, squatty little man who will get to the bottom of this. He further told [...]

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