Michael Morse

Behind the Patient: Street Portraits

Captain Michael Morse (ret.), mmorsepfd@aol.com, is the bestselling author of Rescuing Providence, Rescue 1 Responding, City Life and Mr. Wilson Makes it Home. Michael has been active in EMS since 1991 and offers his views on a variety of EMS and firefighting topics, focusing mainly on the interaction between patient and provider as a well-respected columnist and speaker. Captain Morse is a Johnson/Macoll fellow in literature from the Rhode Island Foundation.

LATEST ARTICLES

Why I write about alcoholic patients

Helping other alcoholics helps me and I have helped countless alcoholics while tending my own disease

February 20, 2015 08:07 PM

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Book excerpt: Mr. Wilson Makes it Home

Morse writes about love, loss, hope, and the magnificent grace of rescuing a pet

February 10, 2015 03:54 PM

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Clinical

Saving a life with ‘the monkey on my belt’

It never occurred to me that the voice over my radio was anything but annoying to my patients, never mind someone’s salvation

February 09, 2015 04:25 PM

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EMTs on house calls can bring the patient’s story to the ED

Once a patient is in the exam room, they can appear very different than the person EMS responded to on the street

January 05, 2015 03:22 PM

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An exhausted medic’s mistake

Overtired people make poor decisions, and sometime it can put patients, us, and our loved ones at risk

December 10, 2014 07:34 PM

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When the drunk driver is one of us

We were all kids once, and most of us did some crazy things; sometimes the life we envisioned is snuffed out by reckless abandon

December 01, 2014 08:52 PM

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Fitness & Health

Don’t let burnout ruin an exciting EMS career

If you’re new to EMS, please don’t let jaded old-timers influence your perception of what truly matters

October 06, 2014 07:41 AM

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4 ways firefighters can prep the EMS scene

Here are some ways firefighters can prepare the scene before EMS arrives

September 04, 2014 06:30 AM

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5 crazy but common EMS scenes and how to manage them

Things tend to improve when a competent person with a plan arrives on scene

August 13, 2014 10:08 AM

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How one medic gained perspective from an ‘ordinary’ call

Those ordinary calls make you stop to appreciate the world outside your own

June 30, 2014 11:48 AM

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