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Sunday morning reader – coffee, ketamine, and EMS news

Working on a cup of Trauma Mama from the Java Medic and catching up with my favorite EMS blogs and news sites. Here are the articles I have worked through: Ebook Announcement: You Make the Call The Happy Medic has collected his You Make the Call blog posts into an eBook. Ketamine For Anger Management […]

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Posts Outside the Service Area: 2nd December Edition

As soon as I posted the last “Posts Outside the Service Area” I found a bunch of other websites and posts I wanted to share. The topic for the latest edition of the Handover Blog Carnival was Burn Out. Sixteen bloggers contributed to this month’s edition. Thanks to the Rescue Monkey for hosting. The Tactical […]

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Posts Outside the Service Area: Gift Giving Guides and More

One of the gifts bloggers can give one another is the gift of linking. Check out these posts from some of my favorite bloggers: 2010 EMS Gift Guide from the Social Medic. A Special Thank You to EMS professionals from public speaking coach Lisa Braithwaite. If you are interested in becoming a better public speaker […]

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EMS Education Tips

10 Important Tips to Respect your Students' Time, Knowledge, and Experience

As an educator my motto for any training that I develop or deliver is that it must RESPECT students’ time, experience, and knowledge. When I am a student this is also how I judge the quality of an educator and a training program. Did the training and the educator RESPECT my time, experience, and knowledge? […]

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Passion in the Blazing Heat of the Utah Desert

Adventure racers are crazy like a mouthful of jalapeno peppers. Teams of four racers had spent years training and saving thousands of dollars to race in an adventure race that would take seven to ten days to complete as they traversed hundreds of miles of the southern Utah desert on foot, on horseback, by bike, […]

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EMS Portrait: There is Always More to the Patient's Story

Jill lived pretty close to me in a town where I used to volunteer as a first responder. Most of her 911 calls were for things like “patient with MS needs lift assist” or “patient with MS has urinary tract infection” or “patient with MS has dislodged catheter” or even “patient with MS needs help […]

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Content, Ideas, and Connections from EPS411.com

My 2010 theme at EPS411.com – my business for creating online education programs for emergency responders – is Content, Ideas, and Connections. These are some recent posts from EPS411.com that I wanted to share with my EverydayEMSTips.com readers. Thanks for your interest and support. If we are not connected on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or EMSConnect […]