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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On this day in 1972 a 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua, killed more than 10,000 people and left 250,000 homeless. With family in Nicaragua now and frequent travels there I [...]
It's been educational for me to look back to see how many events of the past are born anew to a new generation. One day this week an event took [...]
In my last post I also looked back at history and was quite surprised during the week watching the news. The consequences of the killer smog event of 50 years [...]
It seems stories are written about events occurring around the globe like it's the first time such a thing has happened. Unless multiple like-events happen over a short period of [...]
For those that knew him I am my father's son. Same wild professor eyebrows and prematurely graying hair. The music gene seemed to skip me for the most part but [...]
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 [...]