I had a great time writing blog posts this year. In 2014, there were 52 posts put up on the
blog (not counting this one). Maybe
there are some that you missed, or need to find again.
The most popular posts:
1. Chuck
Yeager Voice - this one almost doubled the page views of second place...
2. MRSA is not a river in Africa
3. Giving
NTG to an Inferior MI. People still
think I’m a maniac for my point of view on this one… (The first
part of that topic is a scenario.)
4. My Anti-Quick
Six Rant
Speaking of stuff I hate besides adenosine, there are also
articles about Peroxide,
Rats,
and the term “Sober
and Competent” (plus Part
II).
I shared a few stories about my egregious mistakes and
bad habits, hopefully to stop you from doing the same dumb things. They include vicious, wild Three-Legged
Labs, the story of the guy who was Shot
in the Calf, why I stopped Wearing
Uniforms Home, and why I need to stop Prejudging
Calls. There are also stories of Medics
Getting Hurt, evil medication Ampules,
and another story of another guy who was Shot
in the Groin without getting a hole in his pants.
I try to orient my posts to prehospital knowledge: skills
and information that a medic needs but that a doctor or nurse wouldn’t need (as
much). Even so, there are topics that I
think prehospital personnel don’t have a firm grasp of. So I’ve written posts about why Pancreatitis
should be treated better, the different kinds of Aphasias,
Leadership
Traits, how ECG
Filters work, my opinion of How a
12-Lead Should Be Laid Out, a discussion of Rare
Syncope Causes, why I think the phrase ‘Children
Aren't Little Adults’ is trite and meaningless, and my thoughts on when
patients are Fakers/Malingerers. There are posts about what I think are the
prehospital world’s Good
Journals and Blogs, basic Ethics,
Three
Reasons for Noncompliance among your subordinates, and the importance of
being in a career that requires Expertise.
But I really like to focus on prehospital skills. So I talked about Establishing
Good Habits, Making
Decisions in Advance, with Part
II, and a post about communication that could have been called Don't
Tell Me Your Problems; Tell Me What You Want. I talked about how history taking is kind of
like a Tree
of Knowledge, the Power of WTF,
my feeling on Family
Riders (TL;DR is NO), my thoughts on Field
Training, and even whether it makes sense to make Left
and Right Turns. I posted about how
to give Big
Room Reports, Telling
Family Grandpa is Dead, and the prevalence of Acting
in EMS (at least on my ambulance).
Other posts include What
Equipment to Bring into a call, how to handle Advance
Directives (we do really bad at this), different stages of Agitation,
and the first Five
Actions on an MCI. Going on, we
discussed Bulletproof
Vests (I’m not a fan), the reasons for Single
Car Crashes, why I hate approaching Slumper
Cars, and how to write Narratives. Finally, I also gave my untested idea about Distracting
Injuries, ranted about Giving
Your Expert Opinion, and the fact that I can’t do anything about Bumsicles.
By the way, in the interest of balance, the least read posts
of 2014 were:
51. Expertise
They aren’t bad, especially the expert opinion and advance directive posts. You
should take a minute and read them…
Have a good one, and a better 2015. Happy New Year.
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