I spent many days trying to write up my thoughts on 2017, I struggled because 2017 was a volatile year for me, I had some incredible highs and some terrible lows. I will say this, 2017 was a year that found me in the ‘Waiting Place” as described by Dr. Seuss in “the Places You Read More…
Category: General EMS
Distance CME is the Worst
Much like many EMS professionals around the country I am getting ready for my re certification in March. This year I opted to try the online Paramedic Refresher from Distance CME. I deeply regret giving them a single dime of my money. It is very rare for me to speak negatively about much of anything, Read More…
Line of Duty Deaths and How We Carry On
Last night, while returning from a transfer a local BLS ambulance collided with a parked semi at highway speeds. the passenger who was 24 years old and had just celebrated her one year anniversary as an EMT for the company died on scene, her partner required extrication and was taken to a local level 1 Read More…
Feeling Un-Sure
I am feeling rather unsure of myself right now, that’s the best way to put things. I left the world of full time user experience design in 2015 because my soul needed to be out outside, I simply put couldn’t handle another lay off, another cubicle job, and yet another disappointed look from Mrs. ZM Read More…
Updates from The Zombie Medic
Well the world turns and things change. We are in the last 4 months of 2017, soon the leaves will turn, and then we will enter that lovely time of year where those EMS providers who re cert on March 31 freak out because they haven’t done ANY continuing Ed for the last two years. Read More…
Well Here We Are, One Year Off the Truck.
I am officially 1 year past my last street shift on an ambulance. Honestly I have been dreading this day, its one thing to be in that ethereal mindset of “well I’m not at the one year mark yet” and I am taking it really hard. There are people who are close to me who Read More…
Protected: PTSD Symptoms and the Impact On Your Life.
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Educating the Next Generation of Providers
This week I sat at an interview for an education position here at my full time EMS agency. I The usual interview questions came up, I don’t remember what the question was but my answer boiled down to this; “i feel that we are responsible for training the next generation of EMS providers, and not the Read More…
Finding Balance
We always talk about how EMS will rule your life after a few years, you find that your friends all become ems related while your non ems friends rapidly start to drift off. Your spouse if they aren’t prepared or part of the EMS culture already will start to become a stranger because you live Read More…
EMS Week 2017
Well here we are Minnesota is celebrating another EMS week, I honestly do not know how many of these I have been to, I used to not actually care. I am reflecting on how this industry has changed over twenty some odd years. The tools we use are different, the skill sets required are just Read More…