All in career mobility
Declaring Independence
The status quo has changed.
Surely, we’ve all heard that from one healthcare organization in some form. “Here at Jimmy’s House of Medicine our brand of medicine is different” and we’ve all heard the classic trope of “We’re not co-workers, we’re family.” I can say for the duration of my career I’ve heard my various employers parrot the same empty rhetoric about how the way they do things is “moving medicine forward” or extending another platitude that their system or service is superior to the other by using some tired wordplay like “Moving at the speed of life.” We use these recruiting tools to bring people into our hospital systems, and then we expose them to the same exhausting, short-staffed, long-hours, toxic work environments that we’ve all gotten used to. Then a new generation of employees come in, and the cycle perpetuates. We often talk about the need for things to change, but then we never act on it. I submit that this lack of change is often to do a systemic lack of will. That is, organizations writ large are fearful of change so they elect to do nothing and offer non-answers as solutions. Of course, this is done while saying the organization will always do whatever it can to stay current.
IN DEFENSE OF MARY JANE
Should EMS clinicians be allowed to purchase and use recreational marijuana? If you haven’t been aware of this controversy, it will probably be coming to your area sooner than you think.
Looking Over The Edge: Moral Injury in EMS
The second year of COVID, looking over the edge into the abyss.
EMS WEEK 2020: Aftermath
Where do we go from here?
What I Wish I Learned Before I Pinned On Rank
As we end 2018 and head into the New Year, Dan shares what he’s learned about moving into a command-level position…and what the pitfalls are for those of us who choose to take the path.
Ambulance Drivers: Why It's Our Fault No One Knows Us- Anna Ryan
“We could fist fight in the parking lot of a “coffee with an officer” event and then wonder why no one takes us seriously…”
Why do we do what we do? - Ed Bauter
In a previous podcast we discussed career mobility. What we found was that there is truly very little opportunity for someone to work as an EMT or as a paramedic for the length of a career without needing a second job or changing careers entirely. We tend to bring people into the industry, train them for the equivalent of five weeks, and then send them on their way hoping that they’ll find whatever vague destiny awaits them. You see this romanticized in movies when a character is placed on a sheet of ice or a small boat and sent away from their village to live a better life. In the movies, of course, this tactic works well. But this career, this profession, is not the movies.