Some Blogs I Like

I like blogs.

Actually, I LOVE them. It's like they exist in real-time, and speak directly to their readers, unlike what most Web sites have become these days -- marketing tools meant to tease you into buying something; hopelessly out-of-date, at least by 2008 standards. I mean, who wants to linger at a Web site that was last updated 8 months ago?

So here are a few of my favorites. One of the best things about each of these blogs are that they link to dozens of others, each of which links to dozens of others, and so on, until suddenly you realize there are tens of thousands of people writing blogs just about ambulances and EMS, which is pretty cool.

Wormtown Medic. Written by a co-worker, it's a new blog that focuses on Worcester EMS in Worcester, Mass. Anyone who knows its author, Rod Witkos, knows it will be opinionated, insightful, definitely funny and a must-read worthy of a Bookmark. For those of you wondering about the title, "Wormtown" is a city nickname that has stuck around for a few decades despite some opposition among more sensitive residents. I always liked the name.

Rescuing Providence is a blog written by Lt. Michael Morse of the Providence Fire Department.
This is a great blog written by a guy who chooses to work on one of the busiest ambulances in America despite having the option not to. Inspiring to those of us who don't feel the need to apologize for being passionate about EMS. Another must-read.

Other People's Emergencies focuses on Boston and is written by a veteran Boston EMS medic.
This blog captures the experience of urban EMS in all its facets like few others I've come across. No war stories, just clear-eyed observation underscored by keen analysis of the day-t0-day life of an urban Paramedic.

Random Acts of Reality is a blog written by an EMT for the London Ambulance Service. Well-written and funny, it also goes to show that a 3,000 mile gap doesn't mean much when it comes to EMS. The things that make the job great and galling are universal, it seems.

Brick City Blues covers the daily (and nightly) grind of working for University EMS in Newark, New Jersey. This is definitely an intense place to work, on all fronts, and the medic who writes it pulls no punches. Although in the news recently for all the wrong reasons, this is one of the nation's best EMS services and the blog is a joy to read.