Rick Franklin

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“You’re basically like a glorified taxi." Paramedics make life-altering decisions for their patients every day, writes @MarionRenault, but they remain all but excluded from institutional medicine. https://t.co/9gEXtGjfYt

[Rick Franklin @CiceroTraining]

Keep that differential wide. Think different.

[Michael Perlmutter, MD @DitchDoc14]

“That medicine treats emergency medics like disposable, low-wage workers instead of the health-care professionals they are isn’t just unfortunate for the workers themselves—it also leads to less than optimal care for the rest of us on the day we may need it most.”

[Rick Franklin @CiceroTraining]

What would make EMS more viable as a stand alone profession outside of the fire service in those fire based systems? Would degrees and licensing add more credibility? What changes are needed?

[Joanne Hodson @ambobird]

2 question for emergency services staff.

If I gave you a scenario, would you be able to explain how you’d manage the job?

If so, would you be able to explain how you know how to do those things?

#999family
(Feel free to retweet, it’s a uni thing)

[Tom Bouthillet @tbouthillet]

Last week I was on RSI Podcast by @FOAMfrat educators @OneRadMedic and @FireMedicFPC. 12-lead basics, advice we'd give our rookie selves, peri-intubation hypoxia, why learning advanced ECG skills isn't a waste of time, how it feels to retire from fire/EMS. https://t.co/B9CbuELcsv

[NYC EMS Watch @NYCEMSwatch]

We Are Indeed So Much More than Ambulance Drivers - A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT-P
https://t.co/poaQmTgWwp

[Nat'l Assoc of EMTs @NAEMT_]

Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin - the misperception that paramedics are merely ambulance drivers is everyone’s problem... https://t.co/iGQC8feQLk

[Rick Franklin @CiceroTraining]

Check out the new Cicero Medic blog.
https://t.co/oL0wU5gqB8