Comments on: A Deep And Abiding Respect

By: The EMT Spot » The March EMS Roundup

The EMT Spot » The March EMS Roundup — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:58:42 +0000

[...] Then I told you all about L.C.E.S. for EMT’s, trust as a currency and what it means to have a deep and abiding respect. I Asked you if you’d ever posted a comment, (If you haven’t, there’s still [...]

By: “Respect” – The Handover Blog Carnival – March 2010 Edition | Life Under the Lights

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:44:03 +0000

[...] http://theemtspot.com/2010/03/18/a-deep-and-abiding-respect/ – Steve Whitehead knocks this one out of the park by writing why it’s easy for us to know why we should improve our care, a deep and abiding respect for human life. [...]

By: Jeramedic

Jeramedic — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:39:18 +0000

One issue I see in this is the public. Well not really them, but there perception of us. Yes we all want bigger and better things for the industry, so we can deliver a more comprehensive and appropriate level of care to our patients. But is that what our Patients want?
Do they know there is another, and possibly better way of doing things? I don’t think so. The public, at least in my experience feels that as long as an ambulances arrives “quickly” and the patient gets to the hospital then the system is working. Be cause that is all they know and have come to expect. Many people are unaware of our capabilities even at this point. And this is where public education comes in. It’s one thing to have a group of field providers campaign for change, or have an agency demand more from their system. But imagine a public voice. When a city, or a county, or even a whole state goes to their representatives and demands better EMS. It has worked for fire and police, and it will work for us.

By: Timothy Clemans

Timothy Clemans — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:26:40 +0000

I was studying the research simply because discovering things is interesting to me. How do you actually do the work for the patient and not for the work itself?

“We seek knowledge, not to feel or sound superior in clinical conversations or worse, to make our coworkers feel inferior.” Until the other day I viewed research as a way to get to talk about EMS without working in EMS.

As I’m thinking about this post I don’t see how to think about my EMS Compare Initiative work in terms of helping patients. To me the people I’m trying to help are the EMS administrators.

BTW your view of EMS 2.0 more as symbolizing accelerated change helped me hammer out a bunch of future blog posts. I have one based directly on accelerated change that might be up this evening.

Thanks for the great post. Now I’m asking myself how do I focus on what really matters aka patients?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:05:48 +0000

Dynamic, evolving, forever changing. That’s the name of the game. That’s why it’s called “practicing” medicine, because by the time you get it down perfect.. it just changed. Great post!