Playing around

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I’m not 100% sure that this needed to exist.  But it does.  God Bless the Free Market.  :)

Thoughts, interrupted

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Fun with dictations.

Tonka tough

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Engadget is mostly a consumer electronics site, so it’s kind of odd that they would have a brief blurb about the Lifepak 15–but at least they came up with a great title for it: Medtronic’s LIFEPAK 15 defibrillator for extreme conditions, or extremely clumsy paramedics

When no means no

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Turning a compliment into not-a-compliment, one missing word at a time.

Not quite a Garmin

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Not all advice is as applicable as its purveyors would have you believe.

MDNV

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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.

Continuing education

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One of these days, I’m going to hold a class, and invite both RNs and medics.  All I’m going to teach them is how to spell Crohn’s disease correctly:  Crohn’s.  Not Chron’s, Chrones, or any of the other creative variations.  Crohn’s.

Moving on

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There are certain things you have to do before you can advance your career.

You keep using that word

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It turns out that the medical team responsible for therapeutic hypothermia at my hospital is called the Post-Arrest Reanimation Service.  I will forever love that word, reanimation, as applied to resuscitation.

What’s under your uniform?

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Hopefully, there’s at least a T-shirt under your poly/cotton epauletted work shirt….