It’s been a few weeks since my last edition, and while I would like to blame my deep cerebral pondering of the State of the EMS Blogosphere as the cause, the truth is that it’s hardly been deep thinking but rather work overload and food poisoning via pretzel nuggets. Seriously, if you ever go to Roosevelt Field Mall, do not buy from Pretzel Time in the food court. As for the State of the EMS Blogosphere, well as these posts will illustrate, I think its alive and doing very well:

• Rogue Medic gets the Best Blog Post Title Ever Award for his post titled Magic Sirens Prevent Ambulance Drivers From Hitting Things. I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that a fire blog posted about that ridiculous story or that an actual EMS Agency is declaring it. Personally, I’m all for the rocket launchers…
• Greg Friese decided to take the high road with the aforementioned topic and posted Tips To Reduce Intersection Collisions that actually work. Maybe those tips should get posted by a fire blogger… since it was a fire blogger that put credibility into the magic sirens to begin with. Yeah… I know… I’m such an off roader…
• Buckman relates an interesting tale of how our best partners can surprise us even when we think we know them so well…

And finally…

• With the demise of Trauma, EMS filmmaker Thaddeus Setla has begun filming Chronicles of EMS. The series is following the adventures of American blogger Happy Medic and United Kingdom blogger Medic999 on their service exchange that has been referred to on their own blogs as “The Project“. EMS in general has a very hard time communicating our services, challenges, and goals with the communities we serve so I see this as a huge step in the right direction…

Be safe out there…