This Nightmare Just Gets Worse
My readers know I have great interest in stimulating, facilitating and participating in preparedness efforts on the west coast of North America for a Cascadia Subduction Zone event. I'm not [...]
A Better Emergency – Beta-Forum Site
I have been growing increasingly disappointed in LinkedIn discussions groups since they changed the format. It seems I spend as much time blocking, reporting and wasting my time versus engaging [...]
How Bad is Bad?
I was tasked to develop a ground truth appreciation presentation for this year's Pathfinder Minutemen 2017 Cascadia exercise in Oregon. We're anticipating 10-12 Medical Rapid Response Teams (120-144 medical personnel) to [...]
Book Reviews – Three of Three
Deadly Neglect by Jim Blair, 152 pages. This is the second book of Jim's I have read recently. In this book Jim writes around the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Marti [...]
Book Reviews – Two of Three
Time to Respond by Craig A. Hooper, 201 pages. Craig has put together a small book that reads big book. Craig has crammed it full of pertinent EMS management concepts and [...]
Book Reviews – One of Three
Lately a few of my LinkedIn contacts have sent me books to read. Perhaps it's a new trend over the Masters thesis regularly receive to review. Or maybe they just [...]
Community Manager – Duties and Job Description
Your Community Manager will need to develop a social media crisis management plan in advance, with the full participation of everyone in the agency. Communication Points to Consider 1. Listen [...]
Low Tech Beats High Tech Every Day
While it is still under investigation, the recent evacuation of the Hamburg airport points out how simple it is to create havoc intentionally or by accident. I also find choices [...]
Pro Bono Coastal Community’s Tsunami Annex
When I operated a hospital-based ambulance service decades ago we offered free education to rural and frontier volunteer EMS organizations. The service would house and feed us and we would [...]
Crowd Sourcing Input for my New Healthcare Book
I am in the process of writing a new book, Healthcare Emergency Incident Management Operations Guide. My goal in writing this book was to provide readers with a straight forward [...]