Joseph F. Clark, Ph.D.

I’m just playing with you. My blog will be 35,000 words in this post. Hey guess what? My blog hit another milestone. It turned 35,000 words long. I did not know I had that much to say, but there you go passing 35,000 words of miscellaneous blather. I really have tried to provide a balance [...]

For anyone who wants to know what it is like to write a memoir it is easy to give a brief philosophy that partially addresses that question. That is if you do not get yourself emotionally involved and in tears, you are not honest enough with what you are writing. What brings people to read [...]

Ever watch those sitcoms and other TV shows that celebrate their 100th episode? No, okay so I do not watch stuff like that either. But if you did, you would know that I was hinting that this is my 100th blog. Yes a little over 1 year and the blog is 100 blogs old. I [...]

By writing My Ambulance Education Joe brings the challenges and rewards to a lot of people. EMS professionals toil in relative anonymity. Joe brings the world of EMS to a general audience that is captivating and respectful.

Why I think Oprah should promote My Ambulance Education. It has all the characteristics she tends to promote. In it there is a great human interest concerning people helping people. There is a solid foundation of the common man working to improve his life and overcoming adversity. This is overlaid in it a touching love [...]

Happy Birthday My Ambulance Education. One year ago today My Ambulance Education was published by Firefly. All I can say is that it is still an education.

Why is cast iron so appropriate to bachelors you ask, well it is because you really aren’t supposed to WASH it. What is more perfect than that for us disgusting non-neat freak bachelors than a pan that you can just wipe out and call clean.

It is Thursday morning and I’m sitting in the doctor’s exam room waiting to see my physician. The appointment was for 9:00 AM; scheduled one year ago. I called this morning to confirm and they said the doctor does not come in at all on Thursdays and claim my appointment was cancelled in December. I [...]

I write and submit about eight grant applications per year to get the funding in need to keep the lab running. Ten years ago I could get two grants per year or about 25% of my grant applications would be funded. Now however, I am lucky to get one grant every two years. So my [...]

My Ambulance Education continues to sell at a brisk pace. In the past year I’ve been privileged to make connections with people in the trenches, reconnect with comrades from those days and work every day to do research that may benefit patients in the ambulance. I have said many times; working on the ambulance has [...]