Saturday, July 27, 2013

Well, well, well....





And if many lives will be saved now by Station 4, how many lives have been lost in Peoria over the last twenty years because upgrades like this have not occurred?

I think there is a lot of explaining to do to the people of Peoria.


  
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By JESSE O'BRIEN (jobrien@pjstar.com)
Journal Star
Posted Jul 26, 2013 @ 08:30 PM
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PEORIA —
The Peoria Fire Department announced Friday that Fire Engine 4 has been granted approval to upgrade from a basic life support unit to an advanced life support medical response unit.
The upgrade means the truck now can hold 24 different medications, up from the previous seven allowed, establish IV access and perform treatment that can show a more in-depth look at a heart. The truck also could soon be allowed to transport patients to the hospital.
"It's definitely going to be a huge lifesaver," Local 50 EMS Committee Chairman Josh Martin said.
Martin was joined by Peoria fire Chief Kent Tomblin, Advanced Medical Transport CEO Andrew Rand and division chief Phillip Maclin in making the announcement before media and the public Friday afternoon. Mayor Jim Ardis also was in attendance.
By expanding the tools and medicines available to paramedics on the truck, it is expected first responders will be more adept at handling cases of strokes, heart attacks and gunshot victims on-scene while waiting for an ambulance to take the patient to the hospital.
Martin said the truck has been operating as an advanced life support vehicle for about a week, and in the first two days of ALS service already had responded to 15 such calls.
"This is a high call volume area," he said. "I believe Engine 4 runs the second most amount of calls in the city, so it's definitely going to be used. It's going to save lives."

Jesse O'Brien can be reached at 686-3257 or jobrien@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @jesseobrien.
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I have a couple of questions: 

I am just curious where the OSF physicians who have controlled EMS in Peoria were yesterday. Why were they not present at this announcement? They stated many times over the years that things were fine in Peoria and there was no need for the Peoria Fire Department to upgrade to Advanced Life Support and transport. 

Where was the current OSF Project Medical Director who controls whether Engine 4 could upgrade? Why was this OSF doctor not present? 

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Well, well, well... 

If many lives will be saved now due to this upgrade, how many lives have been LOST during the last twenty years because of the EMS delays, lack of advanced life support, etc?
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So where is this truck stationed?
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They are now as well trained as any AMT employee, they should be transporting on a nonprofit basis by a city owned Ambulance. The firemen do the vital work the city should get the pay, not AMT.
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@Pat Ford Exactly.
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Monday, July 22, 2013

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

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Monday, June 24, 2013

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Monsignor Rohlf's Threat


In 2003 Monsignor Rohlfs threatened to go to the media against Haitian Hearts if I petitioned for a tribunal court against OSF. I could not hardly believe he was saying this to me and Patricia Gibson was standing in his office agreeing with him. I told him I would anyway and spoke to Bishop Jenky that afternoon.

After reading the article tweeted below, I am now not surprised about Monsignor Rohlf's threat against Haitian Hearts. (The article below has a typo...it is "Rohlfs" not "Wallace".)




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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Attitudes

Photo by Maria King Carroll

"Attitudes are more important than abilities. Motives are more important than methods. Character is more important than cleverness. And the heart takes precedence over the head."

Denis Parsons Burkitt, 1911-1993

(Dr. Burkitt was an Irishman who drove across sub-Saharan Africa in his beat up Ford pick up truck. He found many African kids between the ages of 5 and 8 years who had deadly facial tumors. He biopsied the tumor and it was found to be caused by a virus. Who would have thought that a virus could cause a cancer now called Burkitt's lymphoma?)

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Monday, May 6, 2013

Will OSF Follow Through With Hannah?




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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Social Injustice in Medicine


Science has revolutionized medicine but there was no revolution and no plan for ensuring equal access. Excellence without equity is what you now inherit. It’s the chief human rights problem of twenty-first-century medicine, and only when we’re all under general anesthesia of the soul will we be able to ignore it as the century marches on.

Farmer, Paul (2013-03-02). To Repair the World (p. 18). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

More than Technology




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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Korean Toddler Gets New Trachea at OSF-CHOI...OSF's Haitian Patients Denied Care





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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Can You Speak Out Without Getting Fired...Be Careful




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Illness as a Moral Experience


Looking at medicine this way reinforced my belief that the structure and demands of medical schools and hospitals create obstacles to caregiving. How to revivify caregiving in medicine became the issue. Teaching about illness experiences remains important. Yet the moral–emotional core of those experiences deserves greater primacy — as does the social suffering that affects everyone, but especially marginalized people already injured by poverty, isolation, and other forms of structural violence.
Another orienting issue is the lived relationship between patient (and family) and clinician. Here the anthropological model of exchange based in reciprocity can counterbalance the market model's infiltration into even the most intimate parts of health care. The anthropological perspective suggests that care resembles gift exchange between individuals whose relationship to each other really matters. Stories and meanings are exchanged, but also the raw experience of responsibility and emotional sensibility. Over time, caregiving changes the moral life of both caregiver and care receiver. Ultimately, caregiving is about doing good for others, and doing good in the world, as naive as it may sound, is what medicine is really about. That's what draws people to its practice, even if it's also about technology, biomedical science, and markets. That moral core of medicine may seem abstract, until you see health professionals passionately struggling to be useful, compassionate, responsive, and responsible while working with the indifference of bureaucratic rules, the cold counting and costing of institutional audits, and hard-to-balance personal demands on their time and concern.
Modern medical practice's greatest challenge may be finding a way to keep caregiving central to health care. That way will turn on structural and economic developments, technologies, and therapeutic models, but also on the importance that professionals ascribe to patients' deep experience and to such enduring moral practices of caring as the laying on of hands, the expression of kindness, the enactment of decency, and the commitment to presence — being there for those who need them. This is the embodied wisdom medical students need to learn and we all must remember. It is the lesson for the art of living and the art of medical practice that emerges from my 40 years of rethinking and reliving this subject.

Arthur Kleinman, M.D.
New England Journal of Medicine 2013; 368: 1376-1377
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