A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #24 Learn the local rules – wherever your travels may take you. I have often been referred to as a ‘human lightning rod’ because of a tendency to be the connector of dots at the center of turbulence. I beg to differ. […]
Hal Newman
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A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#23 Special orders don’t upset us Let me preface this story by saying I am a vegetarian. No worries, no drama. It’s a personal choice not a political statement. I don’t care what you eat. When our meat-a-tarian friends come over for bbq […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#22 Get out of the way Last Saturday, my daughter Emma got hit by a soccer ball booted by a teammate during practice. It’s okay. She wasn’t hurt. However, it was a reminder that she had violated the #1 Rule of Tobogganing and […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #21 Embrace the rake. Back in April of this year, Becel taught me an important lesson in resource utilization. Becel is a chicken. She’s one of our laying hens. Becel was hatched last year. She got her name because she was the […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#20 The great ones come in all shapes & sizes. And sometimes they’re just a bit rough around the edges. I remember Donald Bull and the brief, interesting, occasionally tragic friendship we had back when I was a member of the PVFC from […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#19 And sometimes, it is just beshert. My friends often remark on how the world seems to conspire to ensure I am often in the right place at the right time when someone needs emergency assistance. The CSL EMS crews and dispatchers still […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#18 Serve. One of the girls on a U-8 soccer team was having a breakout season. She had steadily increased her contact and control with the ball and had even turned away a few hard shots as a practice keeper. Her dad told […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#17 Check your own pulse. Pietro said it sounded as if something had fallen from a truck driving too fast down Stage Road. Trucks often drive at breakneck speeds past the ‘Please be careful. This could be your child’ signs so it didn’t […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#16 Be true to yourself. “Each of us has a special contribution to make to the human world. Each of us is born with the package of assets, deficits, problems and blessings needed for that work. Each of us struggles to understand what […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#15 Stepping up I’ll just go ahead and tell the story. “Step up, tell the truth and take responsibility for your actions and all will be big medicine.” When I said those words I was the newly-minted director of a small Emergency Medical […]