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Alzheimer’s Mortality Lowest for Taxi, AmbulanceDrivers Some researchers out of Harvard Medical School did a study of over 443 occupations and found that taxi drivers and ambulancedrivers had the lowest rates of dying from Alzheimer’s. Ambulancedrivers.
So much more than just “ambulancedrivers”. Thank you for caring for your communities as paramedics with a multitude of advanced life-saving skills and medical directives…and so much more.
As paramedics, whilst we often take great offence at being called ambulancedrivers, the question is, when it’s our turn to drive, what exactly is it that we are providing? Do we fully engage in shared patient care with our attending partner, or do we switch off so that we can simply drive the ambulance and take it easy?
Do you cringe each time you see a news story talk about “ambulancedrivers”? Do you cringe each time you see a news story talk about “ambulancedrivers”? Have you ever wondered why the news media gets EMS stories so messed up? Is your agency concerned with sharing your work with the community because of “HIPAA”?
And they’re certainly not “AmbulanceDrivers.” It was accompanied by an expanded set of knowledge and skill expectations for emergency medical technicians (EMTs). There is nothing “basic” about what an EMT learns or the skills he or she can perform.
EMTs are not just “ambulancedrivers,” although that’s certainly a critical part of their occupation. Depending on where you live, you may see them every day or just when there’s a fire, police, or medical emergency where you are.
On April 14, 2023 I suffered a life-threatening massive pulmonary embolus. I had a DVT that I had ignored/rationalized for nearly a year that turned out to extend from my mid-calf to lower thigh, and on April 14 a big chunk of it broke loose and tried to kill me. I had major clots in.
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Dear frontline ambulance colleagues, After 12 years of responding to 999 calls and subsequently watching from the sidelines as family and friends continue to do so, I am only too aware of the ever increasing pressures and the ongoing erosion of the ambulance clinicians’ lot.
The best… and worst… boss I ever had. I’m gonna miss her. I had been an EMT perhaps two weeks when I met her. The big EMS agency in my town wouldnt have anything to do with me; I showed up at their headquarters and asked the receptionist for an application, and then cooled my.
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This week to celebrate EMS Week, I had the privilege of giving a few talks at the Swamp Rabbit Prehospital Medicine Conference put on by Prisma Health and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, SC. It was a well-run and attended conference with a great lineup of speakers. Besides myself, there.
Today is Memorial Day. Normally, most of us would have spent the weekend grilling burgers and visiting with relatives, or lounging on a beach somewhere, or watching a baseball game in an opulent stadium, overpriced beer and hot dog in hand, but let’s not forget the meaning of the day. So when you partake in.
It was often said that I had no brakes on my Dare Car, and today’s shopping trip proved it. I was browsing the maternity section at Lane Bryant, and not for clothes for Mary. Thus far, Operation Impregnation had produced zero results, but I vowed to soldier on and do my part in the procreation.
En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between is now available in hardcover! Remember, if you’d like personalized and signed copies of my books, click one of the book covers on the right sidebar!
Starting June 20, 2023, Amazon is raising prices on all books published through Kindle Direct Publishing, supposedly to better align with current paper and materials costs. It’s a pretty substantial bump. My full-length books, both hardcover and paperback, will be about $4 more expensive per copy.
One of the most egregious disservices to EMS students is what passes for medicolegal education in EMT or Paramedic school. Far too often, students are subjected to myth, dogma and outright b t from instructors who have at best a superficial understanding of the subject, most of whom have never had their lessons taught or vetted.
Background: Ambulancedrivers are more likely to be involved in fatal or injury collisions compared to other professional drivers. Study Objective: This study is a retrospective study aimed to describe factors involved in paramedics’ collisions.
We are there to simply carry her mother out to the ambulance, drive her to the hospital. Ambulancedriver by day. We put her mother in the stair chair and carry her gently out to the stretcher, and carefully place her on it, get her bundled and safely belted, and then lift the stretcher into the back of the ambulance.
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