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Pre-Hospital Stroke Code: Update
“Do or do not there is no try” – Yoda It has been over one month since everyone’s favorite Paterson ER started to pilot a pre-hospital stroke code. The goal of this process is ambitious: to get a...
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Updates: Successful Use of Prehospital Stroke Code
“Some things you can do well or do quickly. Often in medicine you need to do both.” Just got out of the monthly meeting looking at our prehospital stroke code program. We are now three months into this...
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The Day I Almost Died 25 Years Ago and How it Makes Me A Better Doctor Today
“Unit 8-1 to central we’ve been involved in a Signal 350 (MVA) with injuries. Need help.” These were the first coherent words I spoke into the police radio. Moments earlier I had been thrown from the...
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I am EMS
Recently I wrote about an ambulance accident I was in 25 years ago (The Day I Almost Died…) and the effect it had on me. Writing about it turned out to be very emotional and somewhat cathartic. So in...
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You are EMS
In honor of this year’s EMS Week (May 19th to the 25th) I asked others to share EMS-related events that had a profound impact on their life. Below is what my friends and colleagues chose to share....
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