Perhaps It's Just Me

"Is it really possible to have a career in EMS and be emotionally unaffected by the things we see?" This is the question I posed o...

War and EMS

This is a post I have written, deleted and rewritten several times. It is a risky post, as it has the potential to delve into political wran...

Trust

There are several posts, in fact dozens of them, sitting in the drafts folder, waiting to see the light of day. At times, I sit at the keybo...

Honour

There is no honour in a so-called "honour killing."  These horrendous pieces of news reach our eyes and ears all too often, stream...

Sounds of Life

We arrive at the hospital gates mere seconds apart. Two ambulances with lights flashing, Sirens trailing off as we pull up At the kerb. They...

Birthdays

Five o'clock in the morning and for the first time all night, we finally arrive back on station. Within seconds, before the engine has h...

Thoughts on a Difficult Week

Each Friday, I post a poem, a rhyme, some silliness, to my family and friends on Facebook. Each week I look back, think of the events we hav...

Footprints

Bright red footprints, like they'd been painted in a playground, appeared on the steps that we were hurriedly climbing. Not every step, ...

Unwritten Rules

The first clue was the fact that the apartment was on the fourth floor. It's the internationally recognised, first unwritten rule of amb...

Then and Now

At a Remembrance Day parade, several hundred war veterans, many of them well into their eighties and nineties, marched past an equal number ...

Code STEMI

At eighteen, I was the sort of squeamish person that everyone laughed at, as I'd feel faint at the mere smell of alcohol gel at the entr...

The View from the Back Row of the Classroom

Over the past few weeks, I've gone back to school. I've been sitting in the classroom listening to lectures I've heard before, a...

Rules for EMS

I have, unashamedly, stolen this list verbatim (with permission, I hasten to add). I haven't changed a word, or the order in which thes...

Five Words

Stepping into the office with an envelope in my hand, I was about to take one of the biggest steps in almost a decade. "Need my signatu...

VOTING NOW OPEN!!!

  Right then, loyal readers, the voting is now open for the EMS Blog of the Year.  I have, miraculously, been shortlisted. You now have seve...

AHEM!!!

So, the nominations for the Fire and EMS Blog of the Year have opened. Know anyone you want to nominate? Well, do you? Go on. You know you w...

Transcript

The following is an almost word by word transcript of a phone conversation I had not long ago. It has nothing to do with EMS, ambulances or ...