Doing the A-Team shift today. A-Team is what my favorite partner and I call ourselves every other Tuesday. Sounds a bit self-important I know, but it's all meant in good fun. The fact is that our styles and abilities match pretty well, so much so that we rarely communicate verbally while on a call, we just "do". I suppose that's a good thing, to be in tune with each other enough to get the job done efficiently and effecitvely, so as best to serve the patient's needs.
Very slow so far today. We've run one e-call. A hemorraging patient from a nursing home. We have an EMT-B running with us today, being precepted, "field-training", for her EMT-I. She's a good EMT and will make a great EMT-I when she gets there later this year.
It's all A-Team for the overnight, after 1700. Maybe I'll catch up later.
One northern Vermont Emergency Medical Technician's journey through a career in Emergency Medical Services.
Why do I write this stuff?? To chase out of my brain the daily craziness of being an EMT in a rural area, despite the great people I get to work with.
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Websites of Interest
- My Facebook Page
- Enosburgh Ambulance Flying Club blog
- MedicCast - Podcasts and EMS info
- Council for the Advancement of Pre-hospital Medicine
- EMTLife.com - Great Forums for EMS providers
- Rural EMS Resources
- EMS House - Good Stuff!
- 1st Responder News
- Journal of Emergency Medical Services
- AmCare Ambulance Service's website
- EMT City - Online Forums and Discussions on EMS
- State of VT Office of EMS
- You Tube!
Disclaimer!
The views expressed in this blog are those of the author only. I write what I believe, through my experience and knowledge, to be the truth. These entries do not reflect the views, opinions, policies, or philosophies of AmCare Ambulance Service, Enosburgh Ambulance Service, or anyone related to them other than myself.
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- Non-Paramedic increased Scope??
- Medical Director and expanded scope of practice
- Stuff
- 24 at AmCare
- Gripes and More Gripes
- Respiratory, man o man
- A New Host
- Cell Phone Samaritans
- Saturday 24 at EAS
- Transports and More Transports
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Enosburgh Ambulance's New Truck
DanVTEMT with our new Demers' Millenium ambulance
About Me
The "A - Team"
Alex and I at the Maple Festival, St. Albans, VT, April 2006
Heroes
- Robert Kennedy - A great man and visionary of his time, cut down just when this counrty really needed his leadership.
- WWII Vets - We are losing these heroes all too quickly, but they are still everywhere in our society: Tell one of them "Thank-You", you owe it to them.
- Service Men & Women overseas. Regardless of how you may feel about the war, these men and women are putting it on the line everyday.
- Neil Young - A terrific outlook on life; with a career spanning over 4 decades, his music still gives me chills. And boy can he rock on his "old black" Gibson Les Paul!
My Favorite Quotes
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
-Robert Kennedy
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,
"Speech at the Sorbonne,
Paris, April 23, 1910
-Robert Kennedy
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,
"Speech at the Sorbonne,
Paris, April 23, 1910
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