It’s back. Two weeks ago, our hospital had 0 COVID patients admitted down from highs of 55 in April and 44 in December.  Just like that we are back up to 12 in just a couple days.  Elsewhere in Connecticut, the head coach of the woman’s top ranked basketball team missed the opening round of […]

Just out, an interview I did with the Addiction Podcast about my new book, Killing Season; A Paramedic’s Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic. Peter Canning – Saving Lives as a Paramedic and Learning A Lesson About Drug Addiction

By all accounts, the opioid overdose epidemic is getting worse.  A recent study published in JAMA which analyzed emergency department visits (ED) found overdoses were up 29% from March to October of 2020 versus the same period for the previous year.   Opioid overdoses 29% higher in 2020 than before the pandemic: Study Fatal Unintentional Drug […]

  I have had some great publicity for my forthcoming book lately. Here is a interview with the Hartford Courant: Paramedic chronicles the daily tragedy of drug overdoses in Connecticut before and during pandemic The story was picked up by other papers across the country. I also received a great review in EMS World from […]

I just finished Wild Rescues: A Paramedic’s Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by paramedic Kevin Grange. Kevin Grange is an excellent writer and Wild Rescues is great book that delivers on its promise.    From the moment he drives up to Yosemite in a snowstorm to start his job as a ranger paramedic […]

I have been following the COVID trend since the epidemic began.  To me, the best indicator of COVID in our area has been the hospitalizations.  Cases numbers can change based on the number of tests and who is being tested, the same with positivity percent.  Deaths, can be a good indicator, but they lag the […]