Emergency medicine is the branch of medicine which concerns itself with emergent conditions such as trauma or sudden illness. Blogs which belong here are about such medicine, emergency rooms, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, as well as rescue work and workers.
Regular Blogs
A California paramedic discusses emergency medicine, his long years in this evolving profession, mobile data terminals, and global positioning systems.
http://9-echo-1.blogspot.com/
A Parapup's Notes and Thoughts on Paramedicine
A rookie paramedic working for an ambulance company tosses us her observations about the profession and her experiences at work. Topics include a list of life lesons she has learned in an ambulance, dealing with feelings that come up as a result of her patients, and the concept of ambulance rumors.
http://nctaffy.blogspot.com/
A medic in an urban area with a large indigent population offers a collection of stories about the calls he has gone to, observations he has made as a result of calls, and sometimes, just blowing off steam.
http://burnedoutmedic.com/
An EMT describes his work, his lifestyle, and his cynical attitude, all of which are exacerbated by his profession. Using prose, he succinctly tells the reader about various calls, managing to use few words while describing perfectly the vignettes.
http://pdxemt.blogspot.com/
Army officer and part-time paramedic as well as a wife, this blogger writes about each of those parts of her life. Some of the topics she's written about are medic school, paramedics, piercings, and professionalism.
http://minimedic.wordpress.com/
This assortment of humorous stories about the blogger's patients and the situations they find themselves in. They are full of his own perspective of medical situations this emergency room doctor has found himself with over the years.
http://www.docshazam.com/
My Variables Only Have 6 Letters
This North Carolina paramedic and software engineer blogs about paramedicine, the 12-lead ECG, and pulmonary embolisms, among numerous other topics.
http://sixlettervariable.blogspot.com/
With topics such as trauma snd psych cases on emergency calls, this blogger regales his readers with narration of some comical situations he and his partner have found themselves in.
http://paramedicpulpfiction.wordpress.com/
Articles about life as a paramedic, life on an ambulance, trauma, burnout, and chest pains dominate this weblog, maintained by a paramedic. The entries, which date back to August of 2003, allow the reader insight and relief through the stories as well as the technical information he imparts.
http://rescuemonkey.wordpress.com/
An emergency medical technician in the United Kingdom shares stories about some of the people and situations he has encountered in his professional capacity. In operation since 2006, this blog touches on calls having to do with alcohol, frequent callers, overdoses, and anxiety attacks which precipitated ambulance calls.
http://sirenvoices.blogspot.com/
Street Watch: Notes of a Paramedic
Beginning in 2004, this blogger takes stories from the blog entitled Paramedic Journal and expands upon them. He also writes about his books, which include "Rescue 471" and "Paramedic."
http://medicscribe.com/
A paramedic relates fictional stories based on fact in order to protect the privacy of patients. He also discusses the frame of mind a paramedic develops in order to deal with his work.
http://ems-uncovered.blogspot.com/
