A Guest Post By Jim Hoffman
“The EMS Professional,” “The Paramedic Mentor,” Today’s guest author, Jim Hoffman has more nicknames than a retiring prizefighter and he’s earned 
every one of them. From the streets of The Big Apple to New Jersey and now the secluded mountains of upstate New York, Jim has been a paramedic for the better part of two decades.
In his down time, Jim runs EMS-Safety.com, a one stop shop for low cost EMS training resources. He’s also part of the team behind The EMS Boot Camp series. After a little cajoling I talked Jim into letting me post his Handover contribution as a guest post. So this is me, stealing all of Jim’s literary goodness for you. (Thank me later.)
And now Jim:
As an EMT in a large EMS system I found myself becoming burnt and indifferent to the patients I was responding to and treating; all too often being annoyed at the calls that obviously just didn’t require an ambulance and more often didn’t even require a doctor.
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Sometimes it’s all just a matter of what you focus on.
My children like to play a game called “I Spy” while we’re driving around in the car. You probably remember the game as well. One person selects a random object. Something you’re sure the other folks in the car won’t guess. Then you let everyone know what color it is.
“I spy, with my little eye, something … blue.”
And the guessing game begins. There are different strategies to keeping the guessing game going. You can select a common colored item and try to hide your object in the sea of white, blue or gray items. You can also pick something more obscure and force your guessers to use their powers of observation.
I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon when we chose the second option. It’s trickier than it apperas. “I spy something purple.” This one should be easy. There’s just not that much purple to pick from. Find the purple thing … win. Next player.
Purple … purple. “Uh, the insigina on the radio?”
“Nope.”
“Huummm. Mommys hair clip?”
“Nope.”
“The digital readout on the thermometer? Your sister’s swim goggles? The letters on my t-shirt?”
“No, No and nooooo.”
Wait, where did all this purple stuff come from? This one was supposed to be a gimmie.
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