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- Feed Preview ems-topics – Streetwatch: Notes of a Paramedic
Joe Magarac, Man of Steel
When I was a new paramedic, I wanted to be the greatest paramedic ever. I took pride in never missing work. When I was at work, if I got a late call, I didn’t care. I welcomed it in fact. ...
Baby Killers
Last week my partner and I were called Baby Killers on a call. We haven’t been the only crew to have names shouted at us in the last two weeks. This all stems from a news story about a delayed ...
Outcry
An ambulance is late. Someone dies. There is public outcry. Calls for an investigation. If you want to understand how this could happen, here are some questions you will want answered. Who pr...
Heroes
The on-field cardiac arrest of 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin on Monday Night Football captured the attention of our sports-watching nation. The TV producers were hailed for th...
The Window
In 1988, from my second story apartment over a liquor store on Springfield’s Main Street, I watched a paramedic and his partner attend to the chaos at the accident scene below as the red strobe...
CPR Induced Consciousness (CPRIC)
A fellow medic told me about a cardiac arrest he did recently where in the middle of CPR, the patient opened his eyes and flailed his arms. He and his partner stopped CPR thinking they had achi...
https://medicscribe.com/2022/10/cpr-induced-consciousness-cpic/
Ambulance Movie
So I finally got to watch the Ambulance movie, now that it is available for free streaming on Amazon Prime. I did not have high expectations for the thriller (having seen the trailer), but I ...
Killer Angels
One of my lifelong heroes is Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. He was the Maine school teacher who volunteered to fight in the Civil War and found himself leading the 20th Maine on Little Round Top,...
TV Interviews
I have been interviewed quite a bit over the last year both as a result of my book, Killing Season: A Paramedic’s Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic, and my role as part of ...
Calm
When I first became an EMT, a friend asked me why I liked the job so much. When I come through the door, people look at me like I am an angel, I said. What is it like driving lights and sirens? A...