Street Watch: Notes of a Paramedic

This paramedic blog contains notes from my journal. Some of the characters, details, dates and settings have been changed to protect the confidentiality of people and patients involved.

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Reflections

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Thirty three years I’ve been in EMS now and if there is one line of advice I have for people starting out in the field, or just for life in ...

High Dose Naloxone

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This week I was asked by the Connecticut Alcohol Drug Policy Treatment SubCommittee to comment on the new FDA approved high dose 8 mg nalox...

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Kryptonite

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(An excerpt from a fictional work in progress.) Prologue Hernando already had a 200-gram bag of heroin on the table, as well as a smaller ...

Thursday, October 28, 2021

City Scene

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A firefighter has already bandaged the patient’s head by the time I arrive in the fly car. The man sits on the front stoop looking like th...

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Reasonable People

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When I started as a paramedic in Hartford in 1995, I thought drug users had character flaws and belonged in jail. Last week at a panel dis...

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P: I have been a paramedic in Hartford, Connecticut for over twenty-five years. My first book Paramedic: On the Front Lines of Medicine details my journey from speechwriter for the Governor of Connecticut to caregiver on the city streets. Rescue 471: A Paramedic's Stories is the sequel. I am have also written two novels about paramedics: Mortal Men and Diamond in the Rough. My new book: Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in April 2021.

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