The Field of Paramedicine Explored Through a Communist Lens!
I recently gave a presentation on the topic of clinicians in paramedicine. The genesis of the presentation was a discussion I had with someone online where they were vehemently opposed to the idea of anyone in paramedicine being a clinician. We went back and forth for a bit, and ultimately neither of us changed our […]
A common question in Marxist circles is, “What radicalized you?” I’ve been asked that plenty of times, and while there are a number of things I can point to, ultimately, there are a few core things that pushed me down the path to communism. What follows is not an exhaustive list, more a few thoughts […]
A common topic at my service is that of preceptors. Inevitably no matter what subtopic of precepting we may be discussing we circle around to the idea of whether certain people should be preceptors. I’m not directly tackling that topic as I’m not openly arguing against any one individual or person who is or isn’t […]
I was sitting in a Field Training Officer meeting at one of my services recently when we got onto the topic of pay raises. Specifically, we had been talking about transparency and I voiced concerns about relaying information to FTOs (I am a Supervisor and often have to answer questions from FTOs). This service has […]
Spend enough time in an ambulance or in any Paramedicine station and you’re likely to hear about abuse of the 911 system. As crews run more and more calls they are apt to point to abuse by those calling 911 as the reason why they are so busy. When asked by the oncoming crew how […]
I thought for a long time about starting this website and an even longer time ruminating over what I should write about first. There are a lot of topics that I want to write about, but once I finally got the ball rolling I realized that the first post needed to be an introduction to […]