Terms & Privacy Policy for MedicCast Site
Here’s some rules for posting content, comments, and listening to the show:
- My Site, My Rules.
- The information I present is for general knowledge purposes only. You need to refer to your own medical director, teachers, and protocols for specific treatment information. It is your responsibility to know how best to treat your patient in your jurisdiction. If you do something different, share it back with the MedicCast listeners.
- Keep it clean! (Hey! My kids read this.)
- It’s ok to disagree as long as you’re respectful about it.
- I reserve the right to allow or disallow any posts, comments, or threads as I see fit. (see rule 1)
Privacy:
I will not share or purposefully allow to be shared any personal, confidential, or identifiable listener, viewer, reader or patient information on this site. Links to other social media sites are governed by the rules and policies of those sites when you link out to your pages there from the MedicCast blog.
Please remember that the information you share in comments or articles here on the MedicCast blog becomes the non-exclusive property of the MedicCast site and may be used in promotion or shared in other forums with community members.
If you ever have a concern about a privacy issue or want a specific answer, please contact me using the information below.
Contact Information:
You can contact me by email at podmedic@mac.com
Call the Voicemail Line at (941) 306-3342
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About the MedicCast Podcast:
The MedicCast is a podcast for EMT’s, Paramedics, and other medical professionals. The podcast covers news and commentary, tips and tricks, and much more. It can be an excellent tool to help with classroom or online emt and paramedic school training and continuing education. With my list of Meds of the Week, this is a good start for your online EMS Drug Guide. Check out the list of the Tip of the Week for tricks of the trade to help you in the field.
Thanks to all of you for your nominations to the Podcast Awards for this year. The MedicCast was selected by the panel over hundreds of others to be one of the Finalists for the Health and Fitness category which is an honor in and of itself. I’d also like to thank Stacey Leung, who helped design the site and wordpress theme, for all of her hard work. Site design was considered in the review process.
Thanks for your support!
Jamie
The Podmedic
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About Host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic
Jamie Davis, RN, EMT-P, B.A., A.S., host of the Nursing Show is a nationally recognized medical educator who began educating new emergency responders as a training officer for his local EMS program. As a media producer, he has been recognized for the MedicCast Podcast, a weekly program for emergency medical providers like EMTs and paramedics, and the Nursing Show, a similar program for nurses and nursing students. His programs and resources have been downloaded over 2 million times by listeners and viewers.
Jamie speaks nationally on health care, technology, and education and is an advocate for integrating podcasting and media creation in schools at all levels. He has spoken at the Podcast and New Media Expo, been a featured faculty member of the Podcast Secrets course, and has been invited to speak and MC at medical conferences and expos around the world.
Jamie is also the managing director of the ProMed Network, a collection of the best and brightest independent medical podcasters and new media creators currently available online. The network now comprises over 30 independently produced programs for medical and health care professionals at all levels. These trusted resources for high quality medical education and information reach over 500,000 downloads to medical professionals every month.
More info about me here:Podmedic Site
You can also email me at podmedic@mac.com
Voicemail Line — (941) 306-3342 (that’s 941-30-MEDIC)
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About Podcasting:
Check out the Podcast 411 tutorials for great info for both podcasters and listeners.
A few things to remember:
- You don’t need an iPod or other mp3 player to listen.
- Any computer with an internet connection and a web browser can check out podcasts.
- There are several free RSS (really simple syndication) Readers that will allow you to subscribe to your favorite podcasts, news, and websites so that you never miss any episodes, articles, or posts.
- One I Recommend: Juice (formerly iPodder) a RSS reader that is free and works with both Macs and PC’s.
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The MedicCast recordings and site text is licensed as noted below:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Comments on Terms & Privacy Policy for MedicCast Site
New listener here. Really appreciate what you have going on here. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Listened to you some of the old show and I am now listening to the Jan 9 show.
My name is Andy and I am a Paramedic in Northern California. Ten years US Army and about 8 years of public service now. orked a little in big city and small rural. Choose rural anyday, you are really managing a patient with 30-40 min transport times.
You talked about services at your local hositals. Out here in the Nor-Cal ems region we have an online program accesible to all prehostitall and hositals that is called EmSystem. I can log on and check on the status of all the hospitals in our region items such as serviceability of CT or a temporary loss of Ortho coverage It also shows the status of EMS aircraft. It is also in service back east but not sure where but is a really good tool. For me I am in the middle of three hositals, each with slightly different levels of care. With this program if hosp 1 has a down CT or is short ortho today i do not have to waste time and i can just go to hosp b. Our med radios have spotty service out here in the mountains so we have to act on our own allot without radio contact. So a twice a day check really helps in pt care.
Also you talked about PTSD. Coming from both a volunteer and paid train of thought. I came up thru the ranks long time small community resident, (US Army 10 years) Vol FF, Local Amb EMT and now Firefighter Medic in my neighborhood. I see and feel it more than the guys who commute from out of the are. When the volunteers and I respond, we repsond to people we know, family. They dont say much but you see it wear on them and unless you know what to look for it goes unchecked. We loose vol’s that way. What i am saying is that PTSD can be an accumulated problem. And it can effect anyone. But the folks with the emotional attachment prior to dispatch are the ones at risk.
OK i am at quarters and its late im tired and i cant read much in this little box so sorry for the spelling and punctuation errors
Andy
Thanks for the comments, Andy. I agree that the volunteers can be exposed to some additional stresses because of community connections. I’ve seen people drop out exactly as you say. Keep listening!
Jamie