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• Hurricane deployment is not Beach Week for Ambulance Strike Teams

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  Operating in the public eye under conditions that may require evacuation or assisting colleagues at a moment’s notice means responders must be ready 24/7

• EMS Today 2019 Quick Take: Medical ethics algorithms

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  Learn how to train EMS providers in the four pillars of medical ethics, how to make difficult decisions in EMS and what ethics is not

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  Why EMS must engage the community to ‘disrupt the odds’ and save more lives

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  Public safety experts discuss how they were able to identify and implement forward-thinking local approaches to address national problems like cardiac arrest and opioid overdose

• Right-to-die group comes up with new, cheaper medication

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  Last year, 16 of the 132 people who died in Oregon under the state's law took the new mixture

• What Would You Do? Do not resuscitate order is not signed

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  You respond to a nursing home for a patient in cardiac arrest. The patient's do not resuscitate order has not been signed. The staff haven't started CPR and don't want you to start compressions. Listen to Dr. David Tan and Steve Whitehead discuss and then share what you would do in the comments.

• EMS and fire cheating scandals wipe out goodwill

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  Chiefs and field providers need to change the culture that condones fraud into one that truly determines competency

• What Would You Do? Accepting gifts from appreciative families, vendors and bystanders

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  Appreciative families, vendors and suppliers, restaurants, and other businesses as well as destination facilities, might offer a gift to paramedics. When is a gift too lavish or over the top, like tickets to an NFL game? Dr. David Tan and Steve Whitehead discuss what to do when a gift is offered or given to a public safety professional.
  
  Listen to the discussion and share your opinions about receiving gifts or discounts in the comments. How have you responded to gift offers and what are some gifts you think are appropriate for EMS providers to receive?

• When is it OK to date someone met on a call?

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  Some said dating someone you help on a call crosses an ethical line, while others urged people to mind their own business

• Ethics and leadership training for EMS practitioners

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  16-hour NAEMT PEPL course uses case discussion and interactive lectures to teach skills important to the exercise of personal, ethical leadership

• Dispatcher suspended 3 days for accepting NFL game tickets

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  County fire department dispatch supervisor received tickets from ambulance contractor

• Calif. ambulance co. sues federal investigators

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  Owners claim their ethnicity alone triggered the denial of millions in Medicare funding

• Ind. firefighter will battle brain cancer

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  Four months ago, doctors told him he had stage four glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer

• Medic on trial for 4 sexual assaults

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  He's accused of using gas to sedate women and video recording the assault of a 15-year-old girl

• Brittany Maynard, terminally ill, takes own life

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  The 29-year-old moved to Oregon for its law allowing the terminally ill to end their own lives