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

How good bedside manner helps patients and medics

There is a vital person behind every patient that you treat, and that person is you.

June 10, 2014 07:32 AM

Michael Morse

A medic’s haunted memory of a scared child

Ten-year-old girls shouldn’t wear the same expression as their mothers on the way to the hospital

April 21, 2014 10:38 AM

Michael Morse

Narcan can save lives but it’s no answer

Making Narcan readily available to the public has the potential to give drug users the temptation to push their high to the limit and then return from the brink of death

March 06, 2014 04:45 AM

Michael Morse

The connection of letting go

I’m holding his hands in mine, and quietly telling him to squeeze; I do not need to be a mind reader to know what he is thinking

March 03, 2014 09:20 AM

Michael Morse

Whose patient is this, anyway?

Dealing with a disrespectful doctor made for an awkward situation on a recent medical call

January 22, 2014 10:28 AM

Michael Morse

The season of ‘cheer’ is hard on alcoholics

Combative drunks are no different than combative diabetics — both suffer life-threatening disease that affects their behavior

December 26, 2013 01:29 AM

Michael Morse

Book excerpt: 38 hours in Providence

The triage area is out of control. People with assorted injuries occupy twenty of the stretchers that fill the room, some on spine boards with cervical collars around their necks

November 25, 2013 06:57 AM

Michael Morse

Soundtrack to Saturday night mayhem

Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away

November 06, 2013 07:47 AM

Michael Morse

The medical intern and the real world

Showing newbies the street can be illuminating

October 15, 2013 08:19 AM

Michael Morse

Protecting your own — and your patients

There’s no room for street justice in EMS, no matter how surly a drunk gets

September 09, 2013 08:26 AM

Michael Morse