This blog is about my recent love affair with Emergency Medical Services, or EMS. It's written from the perspective of a student fresh out of an EMT - Basic course hitting the real world for the first time. To give you a further idea of my own perspective, I've just finished school at a tiny liberal arts college, and half of the challenge so far is moving from the well-known comfort of academia, where ideas and actions can be toyed with indefinitely without consequence, to the back of an ambulance, where ideas only matter if they lead to direct, real action, which is anything but inconsequential.
I'm not writing this with the intent of staying anonymous, since I realize how pointless that would be in the modern day. I am, however, compelled to point out that all of the viewpoints expressed here are my own and reflect in no way the views of the EMS profession or my ambulance company. Patient confidentiality is also very important to me, so I will make it a point not to release details that I believe will allow someone to be identified. If you read a post and find something that you think violates this confidentiality, please let me know and I'll immediately remove it.
Finally, I'll try to keep things as understandable as possible for the lay-reader, but a knowledge of the basics of the EMS system is probably necessary to figure out what I'm talking about half the time. For the basics, check out these articles on Wikipedia: EMS, for an overview of the system as a whole, and EMT for a description of EMTs themselves.
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My growing addiction to Emergency Medicine
About Me
- Peter
- I'm in my early twenties, a recent college graduate, and new to EMS. I Attended a BLS course in the fall of 2006 and joined a local ambulance company during the class. I'm currently a Massachusetts certified EMT-Basic, currently working with my squad one 12-hour night shift a week.
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Patient confidentiality is very important to me. In sharing my experiences, my intention is to tell the story of my encounters and not to reveal information that my patients would prefer to keep private. Therefore, I've intentionally kept many details vague, not used names, and changed the genders of some of the patients in these entries. If you feel that any of these posts allow for an identification of a specific patient or if you believe that any of the stories posted here violate patient confidentiality, please let me know and I'll immediately remove the offending post.
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