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.
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: