100 Posts Later (Building A Blog)
It doesn’t seem possible, but this is the hundredth post here at The EMT Spot. By clicking backward from here you can browse through 100 of my thoughts, insights, instructions and ramblings about our job and the diverse world that is prehospital emergency medical services.
When I started writing this blog I anticipated some things. I anticipated that there would be some long hours at a computer screen. I knew that there would be productive moments and frustrating cycles of writers block. Momentum comes in waves, that’s just the nature of things. But there are several things I didn’t anticipate.
I didn’t anticipate the connections I would make with other bloggers, podcasters and EMS folks from around the world. I feel so much more connected to EMS than I ever have before. This industry draws in some of the most awesome characters and I’m really enjoying interacting with all of you. I’ve enjoyed your comments, your insights and your personalities.
I didn’t anticipate the ways that this would improve my own understanding of the medicine we practice. I never wanted to portray myself as some sort of EMS guru dispensing wisdom to the masses. I research all the information I post here and one of the biggest motivations when I’m choosing my next topic is that it’s something I want to know more about. I research it. I learn it. I tell you about it. And I am better for the process.
I didn’t anticipate how this blog would change my care. I frequently struggle with my own advice. At two AM it can be hard to let patients define their emergencies. Sometimes I fail to make connections and I’ve even been caught whining from time to time. These standards were my personal standards before I began writing my blog, but now I feel like I have a duty to my readership to practice what I preach. If I don’t live these values in my own care, I have no business writing about them here.
These first 100 posts have been a great experience for me. To everyone who has commented and e-mailed, read the blog and passed on the information to a friend, offered your gratitude, your dissent or your kind editorial advice, I’d just like to say thank you.
Congrats! I really like the posts on living to our highest values such as the patient rapport landmines. Those are the posts I’m able to implement in my life right now long before the first day on the job. Please keep writing those kinds of posts. Thanks!
See you at post 200!
100 posts on any blog is a great milestone… so congratulations on making it!
Congratulations mate!
Ive certainly learned some things reading your posts and at times you have made me reflect on my own practice and change some things for the better for my patients too (surely thats one of the biggest buzzes!).
Onwards and Upwards!!
Well done Steve!
Have definitely picked up some great tips along the way, and have passed your site on to a few colleagues of mine.
Keep up the work, it’s great being to learn from other peoples experiences!
Flo
Congrats! you keep writing and ill keep reading (and spreading the word)!