Okay, I admit it. I grew up watching Johnny Gage (Randolph Mantooth) and Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) on the television series “Emergency!” I loved that show! I spent my formative early teenage years plopped down in front of the tube, as Johnny and Roy responded to yet another rollover on Canyon Road, or a “man …
Continue reading Online Medical Control and Other EMS Anachronisms
Like the crew of a hulking ship at sea crashing through the waves, paramedics toil daily in the communities in which we work. We provide assistance to the people we serve in an effort to keep the whole proverbial ship from sinking. We do one job, one call at a time, while the unseen and …
Continue reading EMS Research: Charting a course for our future
Attend any EMS conference or gathering around the nation or across the border and you will no doubt hear a discussion about the nature of the paramedic profession. Paramedicine, as an industry and a profession, has come a long way since Johnny and Roy fixed the paradigm in the 70s. Or, has it?Many of the …
Medic Steve's Corner 