Monthly Archives: January 2010

Newman: The flat end of the EMS line

January 30, 2010

Pointe Claire QC–I’m driving out towards Stanstead on Highway 10 in Quebec when I realize the flat end of the EMS line is where we really need Advanced Life Support . The number of ambulances per capita drops off radically as you cross the Champlain Bridge off the island of Montreal. Half an hour...

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Tired of same old same old

January 11, 2010

Montreal QC–Yesterday I wrote on my Facebook page that I believe the entire current emergency management/homeland security consultancy paradigm needs to be shoved out the window on the top floor of a very high building. Where’s the fidiciary responsibility to the citizens? Where’s the transfer of any real-world meaningful knowledge? All I see is...

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Jim Rush: Why the President’s Executive Order re Medical Countermeasures is bad medicine

January 2, 2010

Salado TX–The President’s Executive Order http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-medical-countermeasures-following-a-biological-attack on medical countermeasures is an example where the President has been given terrible advice. This executive order tasks HHS, DHS and the US Postal Service to develop the “national U.S. Postal Service model,” of distributing medical countermeasures to the American people during a biological attack. The idea is...

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