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EMS Providers Carrying Guns – A terrible idea
September 20, 2012 | Administration & Leadership, ckemtp rants, Command & Leadership, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, EMS Health & Safety, EMS Management, EMS Topics, Fire Rescue Topics, News, safety, Uncategorized | Ckemtp | 37 Comments
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Have you ever kept hearing people talk about a terrible, awful, no-good, very bad idea? I have been, and it needs to stop…

Splashed Sadness – A look at negative emotions in EMS
February 16, 2010 | Ambulance, bad calls, CISD, Emergency Medical Services, emotions, EMS, EMS ethics, EMS Health & Safety, EMS pep talk, EMS Topics, EMT, Fire department, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter, Firefighter Safety & Health, In the Line of Duty, inside the mind of a paramedic, Paramedic, paramedic education, psychology, sadness, safety | Ckemtp | 25 Comments

Handling sadness and other negative emotions is just part-and-parcel to EMS and the Emergency Services. How this effects has far reaching implications in our lives, even when it just “Splashes” onto us.

The Drunk Responder
October 22, 2009 | Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, edemse, Emergency Medical Services, EMS, EMS ethics, EMS Health & Safety, EMS safety, EMS Topics, Ethics, everyday ems ethics, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, medical ethics, professionalism, safety | Ckemtp | 5 Comments

Greg Friese, over at Everday EMS Tips, has written a post in observance of Drug Free Work Week – Oct 19-25th, 2009 entitled “When a Coworker is Intoxicated” In it, he asks what we would do as EMS professionals and Firefighters in cases where we suspect that a coworker is under the influence. This originally started […]

Holy Crap! UK medics…
May 25, 2009 | attack, EMS, EMS safety, EMT, Paramedic, safety, UK medic attacked, united kingdom | Ckemtp | No Comments

Y’all need a taser. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5364780/Knifeman-copied-scene-from-The-Shining-as-he-attacked-paramedics.html Glad that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen where I am much. Medics get attacked all the time, and I am no different… but I’ve never gone through this. I think that here in the states there wouldn’t have been a court case for the perpetrator on this one. I […]