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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/

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 recerted CPR, ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) and PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) late in December. The certs are good for two years. That means it was the 17th time I had recerted ...

https://medicscribe.com/2024/01/recerts-and-new-protocols/

Many years ago I was asked if I wanted to be an expert witness/consultant in court cases involving paramedics. I declined. One of the reasons I declined was because I wrote a blog about being a p...

https://medicscribe.com/2023/12/the-colorado-verdict/

This is an old Christmas story I wrote years ago, that I often repost on Christamas. ***Fifteen on the Scale It’s Christmas eve. We get called to one of the local nursing homes for rib pain. Th...

https://medicscribe.com/2023/12/christmas-3/

I was one of the last people to get a cell phone.  My partner Arthur had a flip phone and he used to get so angry when he had to use it to call operations because he was paying by the minute.  ...

https://medicscribe.com/2023/12/generations/