Your dysfunctional family

by dr-exmedic

Absentee medical directors can create quite a problem for EMS services and their patients–but can you blame them? And just how bad is the problem anyway?

Sunday Silliness: bake me a fire cake edition

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Growing up, I didn’t realize that there were paramedics other than those in a fire department–virtually every EMS service around me was fire-based, and I’d grown up watching Emergency!  Courtesy (some time ago, actually) of Echomouse, I present to you what is quite possibly the worst firefighter cake ever.

Pimpin’ ain’t easy either

by dr-exmedic

Overheard among medical students talking about their 4th-year rotations: Student 1:  You’re doing ER?  Do you really like working hard or what? Student 2:  I didn’t think it was going to be hard….

Finessing the interview

by dr-exmedic

There are some things I wish I’d learned to avoid as early as paramedic school, but didn’t. Certain questions asked of patients are among those things.

Ending arguments

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Some medical students were discussing whether Pittsburgh or Philadelphia was a better city, and I managed to end the argument with a single sentence:  “Even as a native Clevelander, it’s obvious that Pittsburgh is far better.”