Pointe Claire QC–Often when people discover I have managed to lose a serious amount of weight, they want to know if there’s a secret to overnight success. When I explain that I’ve been cycling for eighteen months, have altered the way I consume food, and carefully ensure I put in […]
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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 [ALS]. The number of ambulances per capita drops off radically as you cross the Champlain Bridge off the island of […]
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? […]
by Hal Newman The latest in a countless series of grave warnings sent by email with an ever-changing list of signatories, this one was supposedly from a PhD MD RN MSc and opened with this phrase: “No one should take the swine flu vaccine-it is one of the most dangerous […]
by Hal Newman For whatever reason, the national media haven’t quite zero-zeroed in on the realities associated with H1N1, the vax, and high-risk groups. Certainly, the tone of local and regional coverage has shifted from cautionary optimism to creeping negativity. Life-Saving H1N1 Drug Unavailable to Most CBS News OR, the […]
by Hal Newman It’s been a long while since this happened however it seems the story continues to have a serious impact on those with whom it’s shared. And that’s interesting in and of itself in that several colleagues have approached me recently because they’ve heard this story presented at […]
by Hal Newman I have a strange relationship with the Government of Quebec’s Health Insurance Agency. Every couple of years they declare me dead. They don’t actually check to see if I have pulse. No one comes over to verify whether I’m breathing – or not. They don’t even send […]
by Hal Newman I’ve been looking at medical surge as a series of ever-larger waves crashing ashore in that they continue picking up more and more debris and carrying that further inland until finally they begin to ebb. All the surge plans I’ve seen are based on the notion that […]
by Hal Newman Jamie Flanz was one of my medics. He lost his way after he left EMS and ended up affiliated with a biker gang. He was murdered as part of a massacre conducted by rival gang members. They singled Jamie out because he was a Jew and saved […]
by Hal Newman One of my close friends and colleagues in EM, Elizabeth Davis first introduced me to the concept of signing a thank you to the troops – starting with my hand over my heart and then putting my hand out – a thank you from the bottom of […]