A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #8 Give up your seat on the raft. If I could whisper just one bit of advice into your ear it would be to find your own pathway to physical fitness. Find that path and make that journey part of your everyday […]
Hal Newman
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A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #7 All disasters are local. In EMS, we’re quite good at conceptualizing how our respective systems will react when stretched well beyond their breaking points. After years of dealing with Murphy’s Law on a patient-by-patient basis, planning for The Big One has […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #6 Look, listen & feel. Look, listen & feel. Those three words were ingrained into my consciousness a long time ago – long before I was ever charged with leading a team of emergency medical services [EMS] providers. And yet, sometimes the […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #5 Break bread [or make chili] with your medics If The EMS House had a soul, it was in the kitchen and the sprawling training/class room on the same floor. Many a difficult conversation started and ended at one of the tables […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #4 We all started out as FNGs FNG Aahhh, the Rookie. FNG. JAFO. Cherry. New Guy. Newbie. Steve Merling heard them all. He was also one of the youngest members of CSL EMS. His transition from Apprentice to Medic was, in a […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. #3 Celebrate Coaches Has it really been more than a decade since the late great Barry Tottle died? He was one of the all-time EMS Coaches and his far-too-early departure serves as a reminder to Celebrate our Coaches while they can still […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day.#2 Become part of your neighbourhood A giftwrapped box of chocolates held with an unsteady outstretched arm by the diminuitive seventy-something year-old woman who came by The EMS House to say, “Thank you for the wonderful care” she received from our providers. She […]
A nugget of EMS organizational wisdom every day. # 1 Gardening is believing Sew with good will, maintain strong faith in the possibilities, provide loads of support, harvest frequently and always allow the sun to shine on the those who deserve the credit. Gardening is believing in the combination of […]
Norm Rooker’s piece on Ghosts got me thinking about the two EMS ghosts I’ve been carrying with me for a long while and whether or not it might be time to share their stories. They are both old ghosts of young men who died many years ago long before their […]
I believe Mateo has learned the art of the occasional yield. Mateo is a big black dog. At his last weigh-in at the vet’s, he tipped the scales at 97 pounds and he’s likely over the century mark at this point. He’s a gentle soul who is likely to do […]