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Assessments: The Foundation We Build Everything On In EMS, we love interventions. Tubes, drugs, monitors, gadgets, lights and sirens. They’re flashy. They feel productive. But none of that matters, none of it , without a solid patient assessment. You cannot out-treat a bad assessment. Assessment is not the thing we do before  the real work. Assessment is  the work. Every treatment plan, every differential diagnosis, and every transport decision you make comes directly from h

Why Your Paramedic Instructor Told You Not to Memorize Patterns (Then Taught You Exactly That) Ask almost any paramedic what subject gave them the most grief in school and ECGs usually come up fast. Not because they’re impossible, but because they are usually taught in a way that makes people feel like they are bad at math and biology at the same time. The truth is, ECGs are not that complicated. What is  complicated is how we tend to teach them. Paramedic education is suppos

No one burns out all at once. It happens quietly, one missed workout, one extra shift, one “I’ll deal with it later” at a time. The good news is this: staying solid in this job does not require a complete life overhaul. It requires small, repeatable habits  that compound over time. Here are the ones that make the biggest difference to us. 1️⃣ Start Your Day With a Win Your morning routine does not need to be complicated. It just needs to exist. A routine gets you mentally