I was out for a transfer call yesterday and I had run into a fellow student from when I was in Advanced Care Paramedic school last year. He was taking his Primary Care Paramedic training at the time and since found work in a neighboring rural service. I ran into him at a coffee shop […]

On August 25th of this year, the federal government of Canada had declared that the second Sunday of September will now be designated as Firefighters’ National Memorial Day. Yesterday in our local service area, we in Emergency Medical Services were invited by our volunteer fire department to participate in their memorial program. It was a […]

Please take the time to read this! Of the few topics that I have presented, this is one worth reading!

Well just a few humorous stories about patients and interactions with them to top of the humor side of things. One thing that frequently happens to us that work on call hours from home is the challenge of getting ready for work in just a few minutes. Over the years, response time to get to […]

As the title photo states, “if you’re going to work in EMS, you’re going to need a sense of humor”. While most people in this line of work agree, there are still some out there that tend to disagree. “This is a serious job, and you must be serious to do it!” Well after around […]

After writing the first half of this post, I had gone outside just after a rainfall, and it reminded me that in nature there is a reset. Whether it’s a rain during a drought, or the calm after a storm, and it got me thinking. Why can’t people just experience a reset? If some do, […]

A few weeks ago, I had received a message from a family member asking me something to the effect of “have you ever suffered, or have you ever been treated for depression?”. More recently, I was asked by another family member “how do you deal with the bad stuff?”, and this got me thinking. Do […]

This is a long post, but worth it in the end, I promise! Before we delve into the day to day musings that inspired me to start blogging, I figured that for those readers that aren’t aware of how I came to be an Advanced Care Paramedic, I should probably give a brief overview of […]

This is the post excerpt.