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A Troubled State, Part 1: What Can We Learn From Iowa’s Experience?

Skip Kirkwood is a featured speaker at EMS World Expo, September 8–12 in Las Vegas, NV. Visit EMSWorldExpo.com for more information. Much of the EMS community was dismayed when a series of highly critical articles written by investigative reporter Clark Kauffman hit the newsstands and Internet. I was not. I’m sorry our colleagues in Iowa had to be the focus of such reporting, but it’s high time someone called public attention to the sorry state of EMS in the United States. The...
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Show Me The Professionals

If we want respect, we need to look and behave like we deserve it

Article • June 1st, 2013
A Troubled State, Part 1: What Can We Learn From Iowa’s Experience?

Is EMS really a mandatory service?

Article • June 1st, 2013
Bridge Work

Career advancement shortcuts aren’t right for everyone

Article • June 1st, 2013
We Will Stand

With so many recent disasters and senseless tragedies, many of the forgotten victims are the courageous EMTs, firefighters and first responders. Scott Diel presents his new song, We Will Stand, written in honor of everyone that puts their lives on the...

Video • May 31st, 2013
On the Road With the National EMS Memorial Bike Ride

For longtime riders it feels like family

Article • May 31st, 2013
Book Review: Blood on China Beach

A U.S. Navy Captain's memoirs about his work as a brain surgeon in Vietnam is a unique and raw look at combat medicine

Article • May 24th, 2013
Stories from the Streets: Pulseless

Coping mechanisms are taxed by a pediatric arrest

Article • May 24th, 2013
Culture Club

Firefighters have plenty of culture—do we?

Article • May 1st, 2013
Unknown Medical

Protecting yourself from Ralph

Article • May 1st, 2013
Conquer the ‘Us vs. Them’ Mind-Set

Keep your focus on your medicine

Article • May 1st, 2013
Stories from the Streets: Compassionate Care

It's the people in a healthcare system who make—or break—it

Article • April 26th, 2013
Planning for EMS Week 2013: Are You Ready?

No matter what your budget, there's still time for your agency to plan a celebration for EMS Week.

Article • April 26th, 2013
Lending a Paw

A service dog gives one diabetic EMT the freedom to focus on her patients, not herself.

Article • April 12th, 2013
How to Diagnose Complacency

This can be a fatal condition in the world of EMS

Article • April 1st, 2013
Critical Thinking

Criticism can help us improve—if we let it

Article • April 1st, 2013

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