Life Support: Entertainment, Advice, and Encouragement for First Responders

By Mike Rubin

Mike Rubin’s conversational style and self-deprecating humor appeal to healthcare providers and patients, educators and students, employers, and employees. Whether you’re a rescuer or you aspire to be, you’ll find entertainment, advice, and encouragement in Life Support.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction

News and Views

• Lights, Camera, Lunacy!
• Deconstructing Heroism
• Informed Dissent
• Goodness and Light
• Past Imperfect
• ACLS 2018
• PALS 2018
• Showing Up
• Talking Back
• The 800-Hour EMT
• Stuck in Reverse
• The Godfather’s Rules for EMS
• The Safety Dance
• I Get You, Babe
• Good Manners, Bad Outcome
• Happy Pongal!
• Medics with Guns
• Candle Power
• Sharing the Burden
• The EMS Book Club
• Critical Care
• Coach Class
• Certification Experimentation
• A Substance Problem
• Desk Duty
• Duty to React
• Partners
• How Much?
• Death after Life
• How to Tell a Good War Story
• Legacy in the Dust
• Anal Medics
• Culture Club
• Performance Anxiety
• From a Distance
• Socialized Medicine
• No Meat Loaf for Lucy
• MD Envy
• The Narcan Monologues
• I Protest
• Head of the Class
• Respecting the Game
• A Night at the Opry
• Without Substance
• The Little Picture
• Helping Hands
• The Most Interesting Medic in the World
• On Fallibility
• Selective Service
• Critical Thinking
• EMS.O.S.
• A Cry for Help
• Hard to Believe
• Letting the Days Go By
• Practicing Medicine
• Partners in Rhyme
• Men at Work
• Untitled
• A Loyal Subject
• Pack Mentality
• Strong Work
• Should I Stay or Should I Go?
• The Essence of EMS
• Lost in Translation
• Sox Education
• Seeing Is Believing
• This Is a Test
• Out of Service
• Life after EMS
• Spirituality in EMS

In Case You’re Interested . . .

• Early Patient Assessment
• The Low-Maintenance Employee
• On the Money
• Keeping the Scene Serene
• A Hire Priority
• The Write Stuff
• Self-Employment
• Enough Stuff
• Negotiating EMS
• Surviving Paramedic School

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index