EMS Underground

I am tired today and am not sure what even to talk about. So we will talk about random distractions and use some memes to find something to amuse us.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/uom7CtFD2-I

I went to the protest in Covington GA today and wasn't sure what I expected to see. Sometimes in life, you go somewhere because there is an unknown opportunity waiting for you. I had one of the most honest conversations I have ever had ever. And this one was with perfect strangers which by nature does not lend itself to open and free discourse. I take a few minutes to explain the lead-up, and then you get 40 minutes or so of unedited raw conversation that I believe was important. Understand that you will hear raw feelings, misunderstandings, and disagreements but that we all had one intent - to converse as best we could and to listen as best we could. Please listen with an open mind.

Today's Topic Tuesday is about scene safety. I thought with everything going on in the world maybe we should understand what scene safety really is.

On today's underground I will be calling BS on motivation. Mainly the sayings and graphics that I am seeing when I look for EMS Motivation. I am aiming to break some bad mindsets and hopefully replace it with a healthier way to think and be.

Its EMS week this week and today is safety day. So the topic for this Tuesday is safety and COVID-19 updates from DPH.

During a Topic Tuesday I was harping on using your words and explaining everything to patients. A person in the chat said but sometimes the words we use are scary. So today I decided to talk about how we use our words and what it reveals about ourselves.

On today's Topic Tuesday I will be talking about getting refusals. I believe there is a lack of understanding throughout our field on the importance of documentation and what a refusal really entails.

Today I am some of the funniest EMS stories I can find on the web to inspire us to share our own. Type into the live chat. Or after the broadcast share your story here in comments or via email: [email protected]

In today's episode I take some talking points from the chat room. We start talking about what essential is and then dive into the abuse of employees vs times are tough. This leads to a discussion of gratitude and being appreciated. Being appreciated is different than feeling appreciated. Bouncing back and forth from talking and chatting live I end up discussing PPE. I use Chic-Fil-A drive through as an example of how improper use of PPE can have the intended effect of calming people down. And sometimes all we need is to achieve a goal instead of actually protecting anything.

This is simply a drive by check up on my people in the field. I am giving words of encouragement, checking on how the world looks from the dash of the ambulance, and trying to bring some reality into talking about covid-19. I also end with Essential vs non-essential and how we need to stop complaining and look at the positives that we have in our lives.