Main description:

Mike Rubin's conversational style and self-deprecating humor appeal to healthcare providers and patients, educators and students, employers, and employees. Whether you're a rescuer or you aspire to be, you'll find entertainment, advice, and encouragement in Life Support.

Contents:

IntroductionNews and Views

Lights, Camera, Lunacy!
Deconstructing Heroism
Informed Dissent
Goodness and Light
Past Imperfect
ACLS 2018
PALS 2018
Showing Up
Talking Back
The 800-Hour EMT
Stuck in Reverse
The Godfather's Rules for EMS
The Safety Dance
I Get You, Babe
Good Manners, Bad Outcome
Happy Pongal!
Medics with Guns
Candle Power
Sharing the Burden
The EMS Book Club
Critical Care
Coach Class
Certification Experimentation
A Substance Problem
Desk Duty
Duty to React
Partners
How Much?
Death after Life
How to Tell a Good War Story
Legacy in the Dust
Anal Medics
Culture Club
Performance Anxiety
From a Distance
Socialized Medicine
No Meat Loaf for Lucy
MD Envy
The Narcan Monologues
I Protest
Head of the Class
Respecting the Game
A Night at the Opry
Without Substance
The Little Picture
Helping Hands
The Most Interesting Medic in the World
On Fallibility
Selective Service
Critical Thinking
EMS.O.S.
A Cry for Help
Hard to Believe
Letting the Days Go By
Practicing Medicine
Partners in Rhyme
Men at Work
Untitled
A Loyal Subject
Pack Mentality
Strong Work
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The Essence of EMS
Lost in Translation
Sox Education
Seeing Is Believing
This Is a Test
Out of Service
Life after EMS
Spirituality in EMS

In Case You're Interested . . .

Early Patient Assessment
The Low-Maintenance Employee
On the Money
Keeping the Scene Serene
A Hire Priority
The Write Stuff
Self-Employment
Enough Stuff
Negotiating EMS
Surviving Paramedic School

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index