Working at the hospital and on the ambulance, it has been heavy duty Ebola lately. Memos, flyers, posters, policies, and lots of questions. I have written power points, given talks and had many conversations on Ebola. Every day I read the CDC site for updates, which are numerous. I have even, along with two of […]

Years ago my favorite calls were the traumas– the shootings, stabbings, high-speed MVAs. You were on the clock and there was a task list. You had to c-spine immobilize the patient, get their vitals, put in two large bore IVs, open up the fluids wide, and do it all on the go, as well as […]

I first read about Ebola from the 1995 bestseller The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, which recounted how monkeys in a government lab in Reston, Virginia suddenly started dying from what turned out to be the only strain of Ebola that doesn’t affect humans. A great read and thriller that I highly recommend. Over the […]