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1st Anniversary for EverydayEMSTips.com

One year ago today I made the first post to EverydayEMSTips.com. At the time my vision was to share tips, resources, study aids, and publish ebooks for professionals, students, and educators. Over time my vision has grown to include product reviews, feature posts from guest bloggers, and the medical author chat podcast. Thanks! I appreciate […]

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Author-Interviews

The Streets Ran Red – a Medical Author Chat with Morgan Lawrence

The Streets Ran Red by Morgan Lawrence is a book that “puts you in the driver’s seat” of the real life of being a paramedic that is based on the authors twenty years as a paramedic, physician’s assistant, and traumatologist. The book is based on Morgan’s “real events and real cases”. Morgan became a paramedic […]

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EMS Tips Operations

Office Hours Podcast: Prevent Ambulance Theft

During this session of Office Hours, Jim Hoffman and I discussed what seems to be an increase of stolen ambulances and how following some simple rules can prevent you from uttering the words “I thought I parked it right here”. Listen below and check out the links under the player. Boot review Ambulance stolen with […]

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App Reviews

App Review: Car Locator for the Droid

This is a guest app review by David Konig, co-founder of PIOSocialMediaTraining.com. If you want to guest post or review on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Must Have Droid App Solves The “Dude Where’s My Car” Dilemma One of the things that I tend to stress about when going to events like EMS Today […]

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EMS Education Tips News and Events

EMS Boot Camp Session: Intro to Research and Research Methods

” A Google Search Is Not Research “ Date : April 14th 2010 Time: 1400 hours EST This special Boot Camp session is presented by  Joseph F. Clark, Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and the author of My Ambulance Education: Life and Death on the Streets of the City. This class will provide a brief introduction to research and research methods. The students will […]

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Products

EMS Authors: Top Tips for a Successful Book Launch

This is a guest post by Gail Z. Martin, author of the Thrifty Author’s Guide to Launching Your Book Without Losing Your Mind. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. I asked Gail to write this post because many of the self-published authors I interview on the Medical […]

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Book Reviews

Book Review: Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom

Author and Sports Writer, Mitch Albom, has made a career of writing about the end of life by asking his fictional and non-fictional characters the big questions about life, religion, happiness, sadness, regret, effort, and responsibility. Albom’s newest book Have a Little Faith: A True Story is the story of what Albom does when his […]

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EMS Education Tips

EMS Academy for Minnesota High School Students

This is a guest post by Paul Wilson. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Opportunities in Emergency Health Care The EMS side of my health care academy in Minneapolis is a start-up program that follows a model called Opportunities in Emergency Health Care (OEC) that has been […]

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Author-Interviews

Unprepared – a Medical Author Chat with Jim Rush

Unprepared is a cautionary fictional tale from Jim Rush, a long-term emergency planner for healthcare organizations. Jim and his co-author, D.A. Ramsey, have written an account of how several simultaneous incidents devastated a few American cities and overwhelm local, regional, and national capacities to provide healthcare, other community services, and governance. Jim drew on his […]

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April 1: Kitchen Tools and Gadgets for Patient Assessment and Care

Note: April 1, 2010 Post. Enjoy. Every EMS professional has acquired some tools and tricks during their career. You know the kind of things they don’t teach you in EMT school and you can only learn on the streets. Just by nature of my personality I get fairly frequent raised eyebrows and quizzical looks from […]