A lot of things have changed over the months I have been away. You may be surprised to hear I have some thoughts on them.
Looming Strike Action
The Ambulance Paramedics of BC (CUPE 873) will be in a position to strike as of April 1. Let’s not delude ourselves, strike will happen. The hardcore members of [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘EMD’
February 11, 2009
The Changes Roll In
June 3, 2008
… I think I’ve found it.
As you can tell from my last post, my heart wasn’t in the job for a little while. Call it what you want – burn out, being disillusioned, or me being a cry baby. The fact of the matter is things are changing.
I decided to do something about my ‘bad attitude’ shortly after you last [...]
March 14, 2008
Looking for something…
<start violins playing sad music>
Being an EMD has it’s own level of challenge on a day to day basis. In our service, we don’t have GPS on the ambulances telling us their locations down to the minute. The choice of who is closest to the call is left to the dispatcher to decide.
Our call volume is very [...]
March 6, 2008
Setting the Scene
In the dispatch centre, I am sometimes hyper-aware of the perception the public has of the ambulance service. In British Columbia the ambulance service is run separately than the fire service. Ambulance is a provincial operation while the fire departments are, for the most part, municipally funded. The fire departments have done an amazing job at [...]
March 4, 2008
Welcome!
Welcome to From the Tower, a blog written from the perspective of an EMD/PCP working in and around Vancouver, British Columbia.
