The thing I love most about conferences is the unexpected things I learn. Like everyone else, I attend certain sessions on topics I need to know more about, but in-between these official talks there are millions of opportunities (casual conversations) to hear things I never knew I needed to know. To me, this is the […]

It was an incredible week of learning at EMS Today 2014, … I will fill you in on the highlights of my personal experience.

The basic disagreement is whether EMS is fundamentally a “service” provided as cost effectively as possible, or is it an “asset” to be nurtured for the health of its people and its economy.

I would like to paraphrase John Lennon in saying that “Your career is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

It seems that the “evidence-based” trend in EMS requires that being “progressive” means we lay in wait for some “proof” in order to jump on a previously long held belief so we can debunk it as some old “wive’s tale.”

Just because a majority of calls can wait, doesn’t mean they should wait or that every other call we will take would be similar.