101| Arriving first on scene | Big personalities taking over calls | Respect for the ambulance as our office | Fire crews riding in the ambulance | Transporting after reversing hypoglycemia or opiate OD
Some ambulance crews may not have the best understanding of how a fire crew is going to run a call, with everyone assigned specific roles – often the fire department will be allowing a new crew member...
11 Maj 202531min
100 | Fire vs ambulance on scenes | How can we get along | Trauma bonding | How to work in EMS long-term | PTSD in EMS | Burnout vs moral injury | Covid affects on EMS
How do we have successful, long careers in EMS? John recommends living away from where you work, doing unrelated activities outside of work so your life doesn’t revolve around work things Taking care ...
4 Maj 202535min
99 | Giving a good ER hand-off report | Unexpected retirement from the fire department | “What is the worst thing you have ever seen?” | Dealing with tragedy in the ER vs the field
Our system has made access to EMS trained medical directors much easier, which is a huge benefit to the crews The EMS fellowship for MD’s tends to attract those that are interested in helping EMS beca...
27 Apr 202527min
98 | Fire paramedics and medical director panel | Assessing capacity | Suicidal patients | Involving medical control
New panel: Fire officer/paramedic John, fire paramedic Jason, retired fire paramedic Terry and EMS medical director Kash How to determine capacity and how this differs from competency This becomes cr...
20 Apr 202536min
97 | Drs. Sean and Adam | Difficult admissions | What admissions do and do not accomplish | Group culture | Obs vs in-patient status | How we can help the hospitalist from the ED
The difficult admissions are the generally weak, unable to walk with no acute findings. They typically do not uncover any acute findings while in the hospital In the ED, we can probably do a better jo...
13 Apr 202531min
96 | Drs. Sean and Adam | EM vs IM | Admitting the weak elderly patient | Workflow as a hospitalist | Consulting a hospitalist
EM and IM physicians don’t get a great insight into each other’s careers in medical school or in residency Do hospitalists like doing consults as opposed to just taking admission requests? Sean says, ...
6 Apr 202535min
95 | Drs. Sean and Adam | Emergency medicine vs Internal Medicine | Mindset differences | Good storytelling | Advice on admission requests
New panel with Adam and Sean. Emergency and IM medicine physicians There is a study from 2023 called Battles to Burnout. Studying the role of inter-physician conflict in burnout. Primarily the confli...
30 Mars 202533min
94 | Eddie opens up about his deepest struggles in EMS | Retiring from EMS | Lossing partners | Advice for newbies
A difficult aspect of the job is the poor understanding of the public of what we do in EMS, and the poor understanding that our non-EMS friends and family have of what we do Those of us in EMS can und...
23 Mars 202531min
