Tale of Two Dead Patients
Prologue - I'm a fan of the Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas series. The main character is a clairvoyant quick order cook afflicted with the ability to occasionally see and interact [...]
Prologue - I'm a fan of the Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas series. The main character is a clairvoyant quick order cook afflicted with the ability to occasionally see and interact [...]
This call required a real team effort to achieve the outcome, a Rescue 9-1-1 show segment. It may have been the outcome but it was the farthest thing from my [...]
This call definitely resulted in an outcome I was not expecting. Working the ambulance we were dispatched to the report of a gunshot wound nearly 30 miles away next to [...]
Most organizations that handle 9-1-1 EMS calls have their "frequent flyers". In some cases these are people who have chronic conditions which are either fragile or self-exacerbated by not following [...]
I understand organizations that have policies saying EMS crews stage until the "scene is safe". The problem I experienced over my career is that despite your best efforts not to [...]
I suppose all members of the medical field go in with some aspiration of "saving lives" during the course of their work. At some point we come to the realization [...]
This is the first in a series on emergency calls that have stuck in my head after all this time. After a couple decades in the field it's an odd [...]
I thought it may be fun and educational for us to share what we keep in our go kits for times of emergency. The photo below shows my pack supplies [...]
I'm curious if readers would blindly follow a "mandatory" mass evacuation order? A recent train derailment in East Tennessee resulted in a mass evacuation that the public was told could last [...]
I expect there are a few gray around the edge readers like myself who are starting to wonder why people are looking at ISIL threats as something new. This is [...]