– There is a contest in Philadelphia to map locations of all of the AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) in the county –

– How should EMS handle something like this? Last fall, when a dozen teenage girls in a single upstate New York high school developed a condition that looked like Tourette’s syndrome — complete with sudden verbal outbursts, uncontrollable arm motions and facial tics — it seemed likely that a…

Major changes in the way the North East Ambulance Service NEAS is run have been announced. The service plans to introduce more ambulances across the region but the re-allocation of vehicle numbers and types in some locations has raised concerns.The MP for Berwick, Sir Alan Beith, said the loss…

Within 2 minutes of waking up I drink at least 8 ounces of tap water to immediately fill my tank for the day ahead. Local beer is always better. If you life in Milwaukee, St. Louis, or Golden, Colorado it might take a little effort to identify a true…

Someone else can be committed to training you to an acceptable standard. Other people can require you to hold the proper certifications and minimal requirements to do the job. Field instructors can demand that you demonstrate a minimum level of competence before you are allowed to work autonomously. Quality…

– An article in the New York Post spreads false information about the evidence base of science. In recent years, physicians have been slowly admitting that they don’t hold all the answers and that some of the dearest sacred cows in medicine — mammography, CPR, antibiotics — don’t work…

According to a February 2012 Outside magazine article there were only 140,000 runners that completed two or more marathons in 2010. Assuming that it was the same in 2011 I was one of the few in a population of more than 312 million that completed multiple marathons. I ran…

– Continuing with my explanation of the problems with wanting explanations for why something happens. Why something works. Why something doesn’t work. The why is not the important part. What we need to know are – What we can expect to happen. Under what circumstances we can expect it…

A compendium of tough prose and poetry about addiction. Here’s a book I’m delighted to promote unabashedly. I even wrote a jacket blurb for it. I called it an “honest, unflinching book about addiction from a tough group of talented writers. These hard-hitters know whereof they speak, and the…

A senior manager at Great Western Ambulance Service has left the organisation with a £121,000 pay-off. The unnamed individual’s post was no longer required and the trust decided to offer a severance payment. A spokesman for GWAS said the manager concerned had been on a variety of secondments for…