In “My Ambulance Education” there is an interesting quote. “In college, if you make a mistake in a test there may be a final or makeup so you can do it over. But in life, and on the ambulance, there is no such thing as a do-over. The ambulance life is excessively harsh and contains [...]
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Book Launch Musings.
March 12, 2009. Well, tomorrow “My Ambulance Education” is scheduled to be released by Firefly Books. After years of writing and polishing it will be set forth for others to see and experience. In some ways the anticipated book release feels like the first day of school for a child. All sorts of emotions and [...]
Mom and My Ambulance Education
My mom could not finish reading “My Ambulance Education.” She was very well aware of my accident with the motor boat while skiing, but she had never read the detailed account of the accident. Reading the detail of her son hitting a motor boat (head first) while skiing was too much for a mother to [...]
Ambulance and Medical Research
I’ve been privileged to have multiple rewarding jobs in my life and working on the ambulance is the ride of a lifetime. I cannot emphasize enough how that experience has helped me in my career. I have recently been able to advocate for research into pre-hospital technologies. My main research enterprise is now able to [...]
Sameness over the years
I was recently at a conference of stroke physicians and emergency room physicians. We were talking about the grim reality of emergency medicine and the calluses covering our personalities after years of being on the job. As is often the case in such circumstances we told war stories. I literally heard a story that I [...]
My Ambulance Education
My Ambulance Education is a culmination of about seven years of on and off writing. While it is not my first book, I’ve been involved with writing science books before, it is the first book that is based on the events that shaped my professional life. It is exciting to have a book like this [...]
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