I've long thought that Bob Seger's Turn The Page could easily be about EMS. I'd like to use it for our annual company video sometime. It describes the life of a rock singer, and I think there are some great parallels between how he describes his day and how we think about ours. The song has a wickedly good sax solo&Seger's tired, worn-out voice to add ambiance.
Let me try to explain it to you...
On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha.
This is what the fortune might look like. Other fortunes:
I think that to some extent, all EMS blogs dance around the privacy issue. Some bloggers go way out of their way to obfuscate the details of their professional life to maintain patient privacy, and some don't. Especially in a small town, trying to maintain some sort of storytelling while keeping a professional distance is extremely hard. Now, not only can you not name the patient, you can't even provide enough details for anyone to pick out one patient from another.
One thing I've noticed in this bidness is the glaring polarity of my patients.Their reactions to circumstances can often be found at the very ends of the spectrum.
We're on the South side of the bay, checking out some visiting Canadian warships, hoping to finagle a tour. But, we get interrupted by the radio, dispatching us to an "assist the police" call on the other side of the harbor on one of the docks.
"The notion of someone other than a respiratory therapist providing care to patients with breathing problems is preposterous."
This is one line out of a story about threats to Respiratory Therapists and their jobs. The gist of the story is that while RT's have been worried about Nurses taking doing the RT function&taking away their jobs, it's actually the EMT that they need to be worried about.
Another quote:
My conference started with a day-long Difficult Airway class, taught by members of the Maryland State Police Aviation Division, and by staff from the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
Some of the highlights: