This is a repub of a 2008 Norm Rooker column. “You’re not dead?!” Just what is the correct response when this is the initial greeting from someone who knew you from back when? The occasion was the 2008 Fire-Rescue Med Conference in Las Vegas. I was attending the national roll […]
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Il vient un temps dans la vie de chacun, où il vaut mieux vivre le moment que de le questionner et/ou le défier à outrance… Nous avons tous répondu à des appels qui tombaient dans la zone dite « grise »… soit la Dead Zone des services d’urgence, dont l’instruction théorique ne […]
Ghosts (part 1) by Norm Rooker How many of you have read Joe Connelly’s 1998 semi-fictional book ‘Bringing Out The Dead’? Joe, a former New York City EMS paramedic, spun a very realistic tale of the dark side of EMS. The parts they don’t tell you about, or at best […]
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 The Adopt A Highway program was created to promote community pride and to help carry out or sponsor activities such as mowing, weeding, landscape beautification and litter pick-up. There’s even a company you can pay who will provide the cleaning so that you can receive the recognition […]
I pushed Narcan the other day. The first time in over four years. Some of you may be thinking “So what.” or “Big deal.” Or even the more derisive “Big Whoop.”. However, having provided EMS for the southern half of Santa Clara County and the City of San Francisco for […]