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My Dad was born in 1934. He grew up in White Plains, New York in a modest house with a small yard enclosed by a white picket fence. His father worked for the telephone company and his mother was ...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/09/memory-2/

I-TEAM: EMS union concerned speed bumps hurt patients. An EMS union in Cleveland was concerned enough about a municipal plan to add more speed bumps to the city streets that they went to the city...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/08/speed-bumps-bad/

Connecticut recently added supraglottic airways to the BLS scope of practice. That means basic EMTs (emergency medical technicians with considerably less training than paramedics) with the approv...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/08/supraglottic-airways-for-bls/

There is a new documentary about EMS called Honorable but Broken that highlights the crisis in EMS of high stress, low pay and lack of financial support from society.  The film aims to reach the...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/08/honorable-but-broken-ems-in-crisis/

People ask me if I still work the road, and many are surprised when I say I still do, qualifying it with “just one day a week.”  They shake their heads and smile and say, “good for you!”...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/08/age/

Drug overdose deaths are down 3.1% nationwide according to the latest figures from the CDC. 107,543 people died of drug overdoses in 2023 down from 111,029 in 2022. Here in Connecticut, drug over...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/05/overdose-deaths-decline-nationwide/

The AP recently published a story about EMS sedation of patients during police encounters — Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police. I was intervie...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/05/police-encounters-and-ems-sedation/

I was honored to be asked to write an essay that was included in the new anthology –Voices from the Front Line: The Pandemic and the Humanities edited by by Katherine Ratzan Peeler and Rich...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/05/covid-voices-from-the-front-lines/

I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the recent symposium held at Eastern Connecticut College, Moving Forward: Community Dialogues on the Opioid Epidemic. Thanks to the organizers for putti...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/03/keynote/

Connecticut opioid-related deaths declined for the second year in a row, down 14% from their 2021 high of 1431 opioid deaths, according to the latest statistics from the Connecticut Office of the...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/03/connecticut-overdose-deaths-decline-for-second-year-in-a-row/