Paramedic AF

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Essentials of building a bright future for EMS:

1. Train your replacements
2. Focus on what is effective, not who is right
3. Protect success, not feeling

As an industry, we need to focus inward on retention to be able to project outward to a brighter future.

Recorded: 07/04/2024 Aired: 07/04/2024

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Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tell-a-mother-her-child-is-dead.html

Intro: Housekeeping Rules on Discord

Reading: How To Tell A Mother Her Child Is Dead, by Naomi Rosenberg, MD.

Death is an every-day event for emergency services. It is something we know as intimately as our own souls. But what we call routine, others call a life-altering experience. Death leaves no one unaffected. Part of our role as providers is to know how to let patients' loved ones grieve.

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Despite the wild and crazy ups and downs of a career in public service, it's always the little things that stick with us the most. Learning to embrace those little moments is part of maintaining a healthy career in emergency services as a whole.

Every agency has a goal for how you think, act, and feel. This is what drives their culture. Good, bad, or otherwise. Is this indoctrination normal?

"Change" is a dirty word in the world of public service. Why is that?

You are not responsible for every person's opinion of you. But you are responsible for what kind of reputation you feed. If it's broken, only you can fix it.

Recorded: 06/19/2024 Aired: 06/23/2024

Rigorous accountability is neither cute, sexy, nor pithy. Emergency Medicine is not the place to half-ass or excuse accountability. We MUST be held to a high standard, that is both clear and consistent. Operationally, clinically, and personally.

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Our core values:

Clinical discipline Personal wellness Authentic leadership Rigorous accountability

Our vision is: the creation of a culture of healthy, educated, and effective providers that are striving to better themselves and our entire profession.

"Understand: if boldness is not natural, neither is timidity. It is an acquired habit, picked up out of a desire to avoid conflict. If timidity has taken hold of you, then, root it out. Your fears of the consequences of a bold action are way out of proportion to reality, and in fact the consequences of timidity are worse. Your value is lowered and you create a self-fulfilling cycle of doubt and disaster. Remember: The problems created by an audacious move can be disguised, even remedied, by more and greater audacity." - Robert Greene, THE 48 LAWS OF POWER

You've all heard the expression "We eat our young." Is that really serving us in emergency services? Are we maybe doing ourselves a dis-service with that mindset? What about having engaged mentors instead?

Michelle brings the fire in this latest Linda, Linda! Enjoy!

While we bitch and moan about how awful the public is, we often treat each other the same way.

We are like crabs. Just one of us on our own can be a free thinker that can easily escape the ruts we are stuck in. But when in a herd, anyone who tries to escape is pulled back down by the others.