A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #63 Be the human in the loop I just came back inside from picking blackberries. Here on our property, we’ve got hundreds of blackberry plants and for a few weeks in August, tens of thousands of blackberries all become ripe for picking at […]
Hal Newman
157 posts
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #62 Stay focused or else Concentrate on the task at hand. Keep your eyes on the prize. Whoever said that must have been familiar with handling horses. When Di and the girls started their whole horse love affair I decided to take horse […]
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #61 Sometimes hungry is a state of mind Late in the afternoon on a bone-chillingly cold and snowy day last November Matt paused while sawing wood for the new chicken coop and said, “Hey, is that one of your cats on the stoop?” […]
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #60 Mutual respect runs deep It started with an after-hours knock on the door at The EMS House. I was working part of an evening shift because the scheduled medic/driver was going to pull double-duty and roll through the overnight providing us with […]
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #59 The things we carry [with a nod of respect to Tim O’Brien]. This episode of The Positive Paramedic Project could have also been sub-titled ‘Knowing the deal doesn’t make it any easier’ and that’s where I’ll start our story. “I received the […]
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #58 Growing hope This episode of The Positive Paramedic Project takes place in the village of Hatley in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Hatley isn’t a village so much as it is an intersection of two roads, a town commons, and a collection […]
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #57 First you master cursing I was born and raised in Quebec. I attended an English elementary school right up to Grade 6 and then put in one year in a French immersion program before completing high school in English. I graduated – […]
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #56 Break down barriers to care One of my proudest moments as the head coach of CSL EMS came in the midst of a cold February day in 1997. One of our crews was quietly working their way through the floors of a […]
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #55 Blow out your metaphysical envelope In December 1997, Dianne and I were staying at the lighthouse keeper’s cabin on Cape Borda on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. It was the first real vacation I had since taking the reigns of the all-volunteer Cote […]
A nugget of Big Medicine every day. #54 Put your soul into it It’s late on a Friday just at the time when afternoon slips out of its workclothes and pulls on something a bit more comfortable for evening. We’re walking down College Street in Bethany, West Virginia. We walk […]