Monthly Archives: September 2009
System “Abusers”? Frequent Fliers
It looks like I touched a very obvious nerve with my last post on frequent fliers: Someone Failed… Is it the System? – Everyday EMS Ethics – Every EMS person, and almost every healthcare provider is faced with the problem of the frequent flier… someone who, for whatever reason, consumes more time, energy, and resources […]
Someone Failed… Is it the System? Everyday EMS Ethics
A tempestuous night is blowing outside the station walls. The cold night air is stirred wildly, blowing splatterings of rain against the glass window of my bedroom. The wind howls through the trees conjuring up fantastic images of the disturbed environs of the world outside my bunk room. Having gone to bed early, I cannot […]
Hey NBC! I watched “Trauma” (Post #2)
Ok, so the first post was pretty reactionary. I’m right about the medical aspect of the show though. I don’t know who your paramedic technical consultant is… but me thinks if he was really good at what he did there would be NO WAY that you would make such eggregious mistakes ON THE PREMIER EPISODE! […]
Dear NBC – Yes, I’m watching Trauma
Um… dang it. Hows come EVERY media representation of EMS shows us as either incompetent idiots, or complete asses? I don’t know why I thought that this show would be any different. Really? “He was in the Iraq war. He’s on anti-anxiety meds. Let’s give this guy WHO WE’VE BEEN GIVING EPI TO and DEFIBBING […]
BREAKING NEWS – This just in!!
Lumo from My Life in A&E is a girl. A crack team of researchers working around the clock has determined that Lumo is indeed a female (and we’re told that she’s an aesthetically pleasing one, as well) and that all rumors, or comments describing her Handover contributions that refer to her in the masculine are false. […]
The Handover Blog Carnival – Funniest. Call. Ever – 9/25/2009
EMS people are some funny, funny, people. Oh sure, some of our humor is strange to the uninitiated. It’s dark and disturbing sometimes… built from years of bearing witness to the macabre scenes of humanity that play out before us. Sometimes it’s more slapstick, a kick in the groin if you will. Or a psyche […]
I am not a medic…but I am Ck’s cousin…and he said “funny”…
This post was written by my cousin Jill. She’s a darn good blogger who writes a blog on her Myspace page. I’m trying to get her to move over to blogger… but have yet to be successful in my endeavors. She wrote this post for this month’s Handover. You can find her blog HERE ———————————————————————– […]
Working on the Handover – Comedic Heavy Lifting
Remember those commercials for the cable TV station TBS that ran here in the US where they had the “Comedy Lab” testing stuff to see if it is funny? Well, this month’s Handover Blog Carnival is WAY better than that. Remember back when Family Guy, The Simpsons, and South Park were in their earliest seasons […]
Chris Kaiser aka "Ckemtp"
I am a paramedic trying to advance the idea that the Emergency Medical Services can be made into the profession that we all want it, need it, and know it deserves to be.