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Housekeeping
Went through the old Blog Roll today, and deleted over 200 defunct blogs. Most are not blogging any more, a few I keep up with in meatspace or on social media.More than a few are dead, and for some of them… I just can’t. Deleting their link would be saying goodbye, and I’m not ready ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - February 10, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Postcard Stories
The challenge: Write a story of 50 words based on a picture. It’s harder than you think. He didn’t ask for cartilaginous ass plates, but God made him a warrior. When a tunnel rat twerks an enemy to death with those plates, he tells himself he did it to protect the other wombats in his ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - January 16, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Protected: Call of the Rougarou
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - December 31, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Call of the Rougarou
In keeping with the original purpose of ye olde blog, I’m using this as a means to trial new stories.This one was submitted for the horror anthology It Came From the Trailer Park: Volume II. If you haven’t read it or Volume I, you should. It’s good old-fashioned pulp horror from multiple talented authors. Sadly, ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - December 31, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Kindred: A Teaser
*taps microphone*Is this thing on?For you blog readers, the origin story of SumDood is now a novel!Introducing, “Kindred: Book 1 of the SumDood Chronicles.”Should be available on Kindle within the next couple of days, and in paperback and hardcover by January 1, 2023. Until then, here’s a teaser!********** I suppose if I am to tell ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - December 28, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

On George Floyd, Prone Restraint, and Positional Asphyxia
New article up on Medscape:Etiam non silentium. Free to read, but you may have to create a Medscape account if you don’t already have one. (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - June 2, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Stress in EMS
EMS peeps, help a doctoral researcher with a study on stress levels in paramedics, now expanded to include COVID-19 related stress. Our profession lives and dies on research, folks. If we don’t participate in it, we can never take ownership of our profession. The Impact of COVID-19 on First Responders and Family (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - August 5, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Memorial Day
  Today is Memorial Day. Normally, most of us would have spent the weekend grilling burgers and visiting with relatives, or lounging on a beach somewhere, or watching a baseball game in an opulent stadium, overpriced beer and hot dog in hand, but the coronavirus pandemic probably threw a wrench into those plans. But lets ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - May 25, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: Memorial Day Source Type: blogs

EMT 360: The Importance of Context in EMS Education
From my EMS1 column: When you’re new and inexperienced, it’s difficult to separate good practices from bad, and you’re particularly susceptible to believing it when some lazy burnout proclaims, “There’s the way it’s done in class, kid, and there’s the way it’s done on the street.” As author Stewart Stafford puts it, “Separate text from ... (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - May 4, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: EMS Education EMT 360 The Ambulance Driver's Perspective Source Type: blogs

That $%^ & ! Carole Baskin!
Play Tiger King, the Home Game on EMS1. (Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver)
Source: A Day In the Life of An Ambulance Driver - April 30, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: ambulancedriverfiles Tags: The Ambulance Driver's Perspective Uncategorized Source Type: blogs