January 2011 Blog Posts (6)

Last time I discussed briefly the importance of change in our profession.  The profession that doesn’t change and adapt with the times will soon find itself outdated, inefficient, ineffective, and maybe even replaced.  That’s why it’s so important that we consider how we can move forward and do our best to enact policies and protocols to see that our profession prospers in the coming future of reformed healthcare.  We’ve already looked at the opportunities and possibilities for improvement…

One year ago, our neighbors in Haiti suffered catastrophe when a 7.0 earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of people and caused massive damage to the country’s largest cities.  Over the last ten months, our Haitian neighbors have dealt with two more blows: Hurricane Tomas, which killed seven people and caused further structural damage to an already razed area, and a devastating cholera epidemic…

International EMS News & Research

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I think we would all agree that EMS is currently at a crossroads.  Much of the nation’s healthcare entities are in the…

JEMS is reporting that President Obama has signed the 9/11 workers health bill into law.  This law provides just over four billion dollars in funding for the health care of firefighters, police officers, EMT's and iron workers who responded to the terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001.  

As one of the rescuers who responded to New York City, I find it disturbing that, one, this issue has to even be debated and, two, that people are shocked that there was no formal White House…