I found this link on one of the EMS websites I frequent – http://www.emsvillage.com/ http://www.jems.com/news_and_articles/columns/Bledsoe/Bledsoes_EMS_Scope_of_Practice_Model.html This is Dr. Bledsoe’s EMS scope of practice model. In this document, he outlines his vision for what EMS should become. This guy’s one of my heroes. 100% support here. If you care about EMS, you should know this guy.

As some of you have noted, I haven’t been posting as often as I was. I’d like to assure you that this is not because of writers’ block or lack of ideas, in fact, if anything it’s because I have too many ideas. Right now, my desktop has like some 15windows open on it with […]

Oh my goodness it is such a beautiful day wherever I am in Southern Wisconsin and/or Northern Illinois!! 60 something degrees today, and a high of 70, count-em, seventy whole degrees tomorrow! And then snow on Wednesday… just a chance of flurries, it won’t stick because the ground is mostly unfrozen now thank goodness. What […]

If you look over to the right of this post, you’ll see some things that I put there simply because the blogger interface lets me put it there. There’s some links to some of my favorite sites on the web, that I’m sure aren’t that cool to normal people, but I like them because I’m […]

I like Glenn Beck, and I’ve linked to his site over on the right hand side of your screen. THIS PICTURE (http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/22113/?ck=1) appeared on his web page today. I laughed, a lot. Thought y’all might too.

Tonight I would like to take a few moments to hit on what is one of my top-ten all-time use-a-lot-of-dashes-in-between pet-peeves in EMS and probably in health care in general. It’s the “DNT” or “Do not Treat” order. It might just as well be called the “DNC” or “Do Not Care” order, or “Do Not […]

Some time ago I was working a shift in a clinic on a particularly busy day when I had a few moments to sit down, have a cup of coffee, and talk with my coworkers. It was the usual stuff, talk about the day, tidbits about personal lives, and since most of the people I […]