Plenty to read this week:
Triage:
http://www.ems1.com/health-and-wellness/articles/1930916-An-open-letter-to-a-medic-who-hesitated/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=exclusiveBlock1&nlid=1930376
What are we, anyway?
http://www.ems1.com/ems-advocacy/articles/1930010-Why-are-paramedics-not-given-the-same-recognition-as-firefighters-and-police/
Yet another EMS service says "No" to spinal restriction via long board - When will the rest of us catch up?
http://www.ems1.com/ems-products/patient-handling/articles/1929551-Mo-policy-eliminates-long-spine-board-mandate/
http://www.jems.com/article/administration-and-leadership/flush-away-your-support-always-backboard
More on drug shortages...it's become my big worry of late
http://www.ems1.com/columnists/art-hsieh/articles/1922306-How-to-manage-drug-shortages-and-expired-pharmaceuticals/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=exclusiveBlock4&nlid=1927645
I've tried to educate myself about the whole vaccine/autism connection. And the evidence has convinced me. VACCINATE YOUR KIDS, PLEASE!
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dear-parents-you-are-being-lied
How the immune system works:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0010386/
How to evaluate information
http://www.immunizationinfo.org/parents/evaluating-information-web
How to read a scientific paper
http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/08/25/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-2/
I went to medic school with a guy from Hatzalah and joked that I could do a ride-along (they are all male, folks) now the Hasidic ladies have their own corps:
http://www.ems1.com/ems/articles/1931043-All-woman-EMT-corps-to-hit-NYC-streets/
Telemedicine - so those big-city doctors can give their opinion without us actually having to be in the same room with them:
http://www.ems1.com/rural-ems/articles/1925602-Rural-clinics-increasingly-turn-to-telemedicine/
http://www.jems.com/article/news/rural-clinics-turn-telemedicine
Learning and teaching - doing better
http://www.ems1.com/ems-products/education/testing/articles/1669531-5-things-to-know-when-buying-EMS-education-products/
http://www.emsworld.com/article/11444706/promoting-a-culture-of-learning-in-ems
Inspiring story, makes me feel like a putz for complaining...
http://www.ems1.com/amputate/articles/1929568-Video-Double-amputee-completes-EMT-training/
Sad news from Nebraska
http://www.jems.com/article/news/tornadoes-tear-through-nebraska-town
Neato EMS tools
(haven't tried this one - anyone?)
http://www.511tactical.com/double-duty-responder-knife.html
Leatherman Raptor...because my old happy shears were dulling and retail therapy is a good thing:
https://www.leatherman.com/831741.html
(and yes, it's AWESOME!)
A little something for the firefighters:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/22/nyregion/rookie-new-york-firefighter-faces-first-test.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
And it will be interesting to see how this one turns out - sounds like a lawsuit in the making:
http://www.ems1.com/politics/articles/1928690-Mass-medic-loses-job-for-not-becoming-firefighter/
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