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Trouble getting it out

Mar 4, 2010 4:56pm

When is a stroke not a stroke? Never....

Watching over my employees

Feb 25, 2010 5:57pm

Since I’m an advocate of open government in general, and especially since Pittsburgh EMS employees are paid in large part by my tax dollars, I like to see people making public documents such as this, which is the full medical director’s investigation into an incident that happened during our big...

Functionality

Feb 23, 2010 1:23pm

Ah, the Android version of Epocrates is finally available…....

Doubling, tripling, quadrupling up

Jan 29, 2010 8:39pm

In yet another effort to figure out optimal crew configuration, a group of researchers comes across an unexpected result....

Getting (really, really) specific

Jan 23, 2010 10:11am

It turns out there's an emergency number for just about everything....

Stupid phone tricks

Jan 12, 2010 8:57am

The search for decent Android medical software continues, and I’ve discovered that an old favorite off my Palm has been ported to Android:  Diagnosaurus.  Although not particularly useful in the EMS setting, it’s a fun little tool I’ve come to know and love. Then there’s something that isn’t a medical program,...

Fido’s FiO2

Jan 11, 2010 6:46pm

How ready is your service to deliver oxygen to a dog?...

Not quite a Garmin

Jan 7, 2010 6:35pm

Not all advice is as applicable as its purveyors would have you believe....

Best censorship ever

Jan 7, 2010 6:29pm

I’m watching The Big Lebowski on Versus, and I just watched John Goodman smashing a Corvette and yelling:  ”This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.”  (Original completely vulgar line here, if you didn’t already know.)...

Sunday Silliness: the wrong flavor edition

Dec 20, 2009 6:37pm

Here’s an ad from the Sunday paper a few weeks ago that’s unintentionally hilarious and disgusting to anyone who thinks of BV as an abbreviation for bacterial vaginosis. The BV in the ad, incidentally, is actually a vineyard. Bonus link:  irony, defined....