who is… The Most Interesting Medic In The World…?

To him, anything less than a 14 gauge in the Circle of Willis is a peripheral line;   When he marks “transporting”,  the hospital pages a “Code Awesome, ETA 5 minutes”;   When he brings in a patient, the ED docs gather around – to learn;   When he was dispatched to the wrong address, [...]

Apropos Veterans Day

In the past month – a normal month for DTs, by the way – I have met: a Cold War submarine commander; an original  Tuskegee airman; a soldier/POW from the Battle of the Bulge; a tanker from Patton’s Third Army; at least three infantrymen who saw France – beginning D-Day;  a couple more who toured [...]

In Which We Contemplate Speech Patterns

I’ve been observing “us” for a while now – we EMS folk – and to non-ems folk it may seem, based on our speech patterns,  that we don’t transport patients at all. I do not mean that we disavow the people we’ve cared for; that is, we don’t deny picking people up from Bad Situation, [...]

Poor Impulse Control?

Watch it, folks, these things tend to repeat: From the Chicago Sun-Times, http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2787746,ambulance-taken-100910.article “October 10, 2010 BY ROSEMARY SOBOL Staff Reporter/rsobol@suntimes.com A man who “thought he could get to the hospital quicker” jumped behind the wheel of an ambulance and took off Saturday while his ailing family member and two paramedics were inside, authorities said. [...]

My Particular Ignorance

I prefer, of course, the definition of the term “ignorant” which states, “unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge”.  I’m willing to learn. So I’m eating breakfast and reading National Geographic, an article by Matthew Teague entitled “The Other Tibet”.  I come across the following paragraph:  “… So the Chinese government had [...]