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The life of a geordie Paramedic

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I HAVE NOW MOVED!!

Oct 15, 2009 1:16pm

Right guys, my new home is now open for visiting… No further posts will be published on this blogsite. To keep reading my blitherings you will need to go to : www.999medic.com For my readers, please update your bookmarks/favourites/rss feeds/bloglines etc etc to point to the new address. For my blog buddies, please update...

Learning how to do it?

Oct 14, 2009 2:52pm

I have been reading through some of my favourite blogs again tonight (as I do every day!!!), when I came across the latest post from ‘Not Trained but we try Hard’. In this post, FireCap5 shares with us his experience at this years Memorial Weekend. Now, I dont know a whole lot of...

A Monumental Comment!

Oct 14, 2009 12:16pm

Quick folks, go back to the ‘Blogger Meet up’ Post from yesterday and check out the first comment! The previously fully annonymous Happy Medic is starting to come out from behind his mask. Read his comment and you can finally know where he is the U.S and where I am going...

Blogger Meet Up

Oct 13, 2009 3:17pm

Well its really starting to get close to the culmination of 9 months of planning… I will be heading off to Happy Medics neck of the woods in 3.5 weeks to witness first hand, the life of an American Fire Fighter Paramedic. Its going to be an amazing trip which...

Oh Crap!!!

Oct 12, 2009 2:12pm

Sitting in the car on standby, it’s nearly the end of a long and busy shift. The siren tone on the computer screen alerts me to the likelihood of another late job……Champion! I look down at the screen: “34 yr old female, Pregnant, wanting to push” Oh well, might as well finish the shift on a...

A ‘Hypothetical’ Moral Dilemma

Oct 10, 2009 9:35am

Since the post I put up the other day about the Camera man and EMT has started off a bit of a ‘legal’ discussion, I thought I would capitalise on the clever folks who read this blog to answer a hypothetical question for me (heres initially looking at you Star...

Simple actions can save lives

Oct 10, 2009 1:09am

Its not very often you get 'someone back' from the brink of death, but this was one of those rare days!...

Beware the man with the camera!!

Oct 8, 2009 2:44pm

There have been some interesting posts pop up on some of the blogs I read during the last 24hrs. It appears to have started over at Statter 911, where a post was put up describing a video that is now doing the rounds on YouTube, showing a Fire Fighter/EMT from...

A first hand perspective of Swine Flu!

Oct 7, 2009 8:32am

A look back at my first 4 days of having the dreaded swine flu, and how it may change my attitude towards fellow sufferers who have called 999....

Another bench mark passed!

Oct 6, 2009 1:53pm

Well chaps and chapesses, Swine flu or not, Ive missed a bit of a milestone yesterday and just wanted to say thanks! 100,000 hits since January this year! Thats pretty mindblowing, and I am glad I reached it before I have to reset everything for the move to the new blog site...