The White Paper

by dr-exmedic

I discovered that one of the essential historical documents of EMS is available to read online, for free:  the famous “White Paper,” formally titled Accidental Death and Disability:  The Neglected Disease of Modern Society.  This is the document that led directly to the development of the first National Standard EMS Curricula, and EMS’ unfortunate association [...]

Ve vill torture ze numbers until zey talk

by dr-exmedic

Does experience help when test time comes?

Don’t let’s START

by dr-exmedic

How useful is one of the most common triage systems? The best way to find out might be to see how it works at an actual disaster.

MDNV

by dr-exmedic

No, this has nothing to do with physicians in Nevada.  Rather, it’s a column I find entertaining about “MD Envy,” a vague affliction of a few EMS providers who really, really would rather be doctors.

All about the pill

by dr-exmedic

When you don’t take a patient’s meds to the hospital with you, do you get all the information from the bottles that you could?

Half of my job is customer service

by dr-exmedic

You don’t have to work at Disney to figure out what constitutes a good chunk of any service industry worker’s day.

The other end of the trauma bay: a rant

by dr-exmedic

When is it *not* a good idea to call a trauma team for your injured patient? It might be more often than you think.

The EMS PDA

by dr-exmedic

Since I am a Palm user, my list of helpful medical programs is entirely Palm based (and will remain so, once Verizon finally gets the Pre).  For those of you with iPhones instead (how’s that non-replaceable battery thing working out for you on those long shifts?), one reader has compiled his own list of EMS-related [...]