Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 Oct 12, Guy H. Haskell

Warning: You should not read this column if you have a sensitive gastrointestinal (GI) tract, are pregnant, have a compromised immune system, or have just inhaled a three-quarter pounder in 30 seconds...

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 Aug 30, Guy H. Haskell

It was so frustrating. You'd get a call from a parent wanting simple advice, and you had to say, "I'm sorry, we're not allowed to give advice over the phone. But if you'd like to bring Johnny in to the...

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 Aug 5, Guy H. Haskell

My first few weeks working as a medic in the emergency department (ED) of a children's hospital were intense. The hospital was a regional medical center attached to a major university, and this was my...

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 Jun 25, Guy H. Haskell

Once upon a time, in the big northeastern city of Megalopolis, there were two paramedics, both named Bobby, who worked out of the busiest firehouse in the city, if not the Western hemisphere. This firehouse...

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 May 20, Guy H. Haskell

The company was growing. Two unlikely partners had gotten together, and they had purchased the old, mom-and-pop ambulance service in town, which had two hoopty trucks and a garage in the back of a house...

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 Apr 22, Guy H. Haskell

Everyone in public safety knows that the amount of stuff you have strapped to your belt or body is inversely proportional to the sum of your years of service multiplied by your average run volume. So the...

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 Apr 2, Guy H. Haskell

The township EMS agency NEVER called us. They hated our guts. First of all, we were an ALS service, and they weren't. Second, we were a private company contracted by the city, so as far as they were concerned,...

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 Feb 27, Guy H. Haskell

We all have "them." At least I hope we all have "them." OK, let's put it this way, if we don't have them, then we won't grow as EMS providers. "Them" is epiphanies, moments of clarity, lessons learned....

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2009 Feb 24, Guy H. Haskell

It was August of 1985. I had just completed my graduate degree and my paramedic program and was off to my first, full-time teaching job at a small college in northeastern Ohio in the middle of nowhere....

Guy H. Haskell, PhD, JD, NREMT-P, 2008 Nov 19, Guy H. Haskell

You just don't expect a call like this in the middle of a weekday. I know the full-moon theory of wacky behavior has been statistically debunked. But still, you expect something like this to happen at...