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Maintaining Resilience and Mental Health in the EMS Profession

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The suicide rate among emergency medical service (EMS) professionals rose a shocking 38 percent since 2009, according to a study published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. In addition, we should all be working together to improve the situation for EMS professionals. What’s the solution? Let them do their jobs.

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A Chef and a Paramedic Walk Into a Bar.

The Overrun

In his book, Kitchen Confidential , he talks about the business of cooking food a lot like colleagues I know talk about EMS. And in the end, the only thing you really can depend on are your fellow cooks and service people; because they are in it next to you. Kind of like EMS. In Snyder CR, Lopez SJ (eds.). Bourdain, A.

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PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 5: The Boarded ED Patient

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:57 — 19.2MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarding in the ED In episode 1 of this series, we discussed differentiating organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation in children.

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