Category: Public Safety

• The Seat Doesn’t Remember You

  

  Thinking back on time spent at my current agency, and the replaceable nature of EMS positions and the care and effort we take to make sure we are able to move on to other jobs while the wheels keep turning behind us.

  Dave

  March 31, 2026

  EMS, Family, Professional Pride, provider safety, Public Safety, Random Thoughts

  EMS, Family, future, job-satisfaction, life, mvc, thoughts

• McClain, Paramedics, Qualified Immunity, Other Thoughts

  Elijah McClain, Paramedics, Qualified Immunity, and Other Thoughts on Professionalism

  Dave

  December 24, 2023

  cardiac arrest, Compassion, EMS, overdoses, patients, Police, Professional Pride, provider safety, Public Safety, safety

  deputy, EMS, firefighter, ketamine, law enforcement, mental health, news, patients, Police, provider safety, Public Safety, qualified immunity

• Revisiting Mental Health…. Again…. and Again…

  I wrote about the Code Green Campaign back in 2016 in my post about calling a code on our mental health. I was talking about how some of my “ghosts” haunt me, revisit me, remind me of some of the worst calls I’ve ever been on. It happens to me frequently. At night. During the…

  Dave

  November 30, 2022

  Compassion, Death and Dying, EMS, Family, mental health, Public Safety

• EMS Week 2020!

  It’s EMS WEEK 2020! It sure doesn’t feel like it, though. Usually as we are approaching this week, we’re talking about crew breakfasts, the EMS week banquet, service recognition events, team-building, and other fun events. Instead, our discussions are focused on things like PPE utilization, COVID alert rates, disease spread, and community fatality rates. Much…

  Dave

  May 17, 2020

  Compassion, EMS, mental health, Professional Pride, provider safety, Public Safety

• A Bad Day in EMS

  What does a “bad day” in EMS look like? First you have to ask if it’s a “bad day” for the EMS provider…. or for the EMS recipient. As a provider, I’ve had all kinds of days. I’ve had days where I feel appreciated by my employer, the general public, my coworkers, and my patients.…

  Dave

  August 14, 2016

  Death and Dying, EMS, Fire, Public Safety, Random Thoughts, safety, Violence

• New Home, New Site!

  Welcome to the new home of my EMS-related thoughts and rantings! For those of you who followed me on The Nightshift Squirrel, thank you so much for making the jump to this site. I’m not entirely sure what happened to the guys I was working with on that site – they’re still active on facebook,…

  Dave

  August 9, 2016

  EMS, Outside Life, Public Safety

  blog, EMS, happy, VEB, welcome

• Code Green – Mental Health in EMS

  It’s time to call a code on our mental health.

  Dave

  May 5, 2016

  EMS, Fire, mental health, Police, Public Safety, safety

  code green, emergency, EMS, help, mental health, Public Safety, suicide