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Hot on the heels of what is sure to be the biggest thing in EMS since MAST pants (I think that came out wrong) is a new interview show from the creative minds behind the Chronicles of EMS.

They call it Chronicles of EMS:A Seat at the Table and it is something the like of which our profession, our industry, our little club we call the EMS community has never seen before.

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Producer and Paramedic Ted Setla has announced the premiere event for the Chronicles of EMS, the new EMS Reality series.
Mark Glencorse (http://999medic.com) and myself spent a week living in each other's systems to make a comparison between the North East Ambulance Service in Newcastle upon Tyne and the San Francisco Fire Department.

Ted's cameras followed Mark on his adventures as a documentary at first, then it became something so much more.

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Hey all, it was an exciting year for EMS in 2009! not only has our young Profession taken big steps towards acting like a Profession, but we're using social media like EMS United to share ideas in real time. I hope you've been following the updates about the Chronicles of EMS, a new EMS reality series by Ted Setla, a film maker and Paramedic.
The pilot episode follows myself and Paramedic Mark Glencorse as we exchanged ideas across the Atlantic in an International Paramedic exchange.
Mark just f… Continue

"Engine 51 10-4, KMG 365." The Captain spoke with authority.

It was another world. 1 generation removed from myself.

Like many a kid I waited and waited through all the ads for washing powder and the medic alert tags until the claxon would strike at the beginning of an Emergency! episode. After the opening set up we'd see mighty 51 roll out the doors on a clear sunny California morning off to another amazing rescue, not realizing that the Fire Service portrayed in the show was already dead. Th… Continue

The Handover blog carnival, a gathering of blog posts for pre-hospital and ER/A&E caregivers is back with it's second volume. This month's topic was "A Lesson Learned" and contributions from Michael Morse, Medicblog999 and Ambulance Driver just to name a few, teach us all something we maybe never learned in school.

So come by and have a look, you won't be disappointed!

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