Through the Lens of - The EMS Wizard Podcast
🎙️ Join us as we dive deep into the captivating world of emergency medical services, shining a spotlight on leadership, experiences, and insights of the EMS Officers who navigate the front lines of healthcare. ✨ Each episode will take you on an immersive adventure through the lens of EMS professionals, offering a fresh perspective on their remarkable work. 🎧 Our goal is to share their powerful narratives, highlighting the challenges they face, the lives they touch, and the resilience that drives them forward.
Episodes
In this special EMS Week 2025 episode, hosts John, Terry, and Kathia come together to celebrate the individuals, teams, and institutions that define the heart of emergency medical services. The conversation begins with a look back at the origins of EMS Week, first recognized in 1974 under President Gerald Ford, and how it has grown into a national moment of reflection, gratitude, and recognition. This year’s theme, “We Care. For Ev...
The guests have infiltrated the show and brought an innocent bystander in the form of Surry County EMS Director, Eric Southern. The discussion will take you through growing pains of a rural EMS system and into the modern identity of the profession as well strategies of the ongoing burnout problem.
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John and Terence delve into North Carolina House Bill 975, which proposes allowing EMS personnel to carry pepper spray while on duty, either openly or concealed. The bill aims to prevent the North Carolina Medical Care Commission and the Office of EMS from enforcing rules that prohibit EMS workers from carrying pepper spray as permitted under existing state law.
John and Terence discuss the potential implications of this l...
In this episode, John and Terry explore the implications of North Carolina House Bill 675, which proposes requiring National Registry of EMTs (NREMT) certification for initial EMS credentialing in the state. They break down the bill’s intent, discuss how it could impact EMS education programs, and examine potential challenges for agencies and training institutions. The conversation covers how becoming a “National Registry state” mi...
In this episode of the EMS Wizard Podcast, we chat with Dr. Brent Myers, Chief Medical Officer of ESO, to explore his incredible journey from working as an orderly to becoming a national leader in EMS and data-driven healthcare. Dr. Myers shares insights from his career, including his experiences in high-performance EMS systems, the evolution of data analytics in emergency medicine, and what it takes to be a forward-thinking EMS le...
In this episode, John & Terence sit down with Adam Godwin, Assistant Chief of Johnston County EMS, to explore the vital role of logistics in emergency medical services. Adam shares his journey in EMS and how he became involved in logistics, shedding light on how efficient management of supplies, fleet, and staffing can enhance patient care and response times.
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In this episode, we explore various leadership styles and their impact in the EMS field. Understanding leadership approaches such as autocratic, democratic, transformational, situational, and servant leadership is crucial for improving team dynamics, morale, and operational success. We discuss how autocratic leadership suits crisis management, while democratic leadership fosters collaboration and trust. Transformational leadership ...
In this festive episode, we embrace the spirit of the season with a reflective journey through the "EMS Ghosts of the Past, Present, and Future." Drawing inspiration from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, we explore the evolution of EMS, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of its early days, the advancements and hurdles of today, and the exciting yet uncertain possibilities of tomorrow. Listeners are treated t...
Are you ready to party? Would you invite management? Should you? Either way, we coming!
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Join the team as they evaluate conversations that can be difficult.
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Would EMS personnel make good politicians? Why do they quit EMS? Are the 2 questions related? After suffering a massive defeat in the election, we examine those questions in this episode.
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In the return from the end of summer hiatus, John is not the only thing missing.
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In this episode the crew welcomes Blair Tyndall from VFIS to talk about... Insurance? But, why? You'll see.
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Spontaneity: the condition of being spontaneous; spontaneous behavior or action. We get all that from a guest that can only be Jeffrey W. Hinshaw, PA-C.
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Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, children of all ages: The EMS Wizard Podcast proudly brings to you it's 2024 Tag Team Champions of the Wooooooooooooooooorld! You know the rest.
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Is EMS vulgar? Is profanity a part of the EMS culture? Does that change in management? Is it necessary? Maybe these get answered. Maybe we make it #!@* worse.
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Pender County may not have best friends or sharks, but they do have Chief David Dudding and a flourishing fleet of fire-based EMS. We dive into the pearls of wisdom in leading EMS inside that model in this episode.
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Is it a community college or an EMS agency? Join the band while we talk with Brian Hehl with Bladen Community College as he explains why the answer to that is, yes.
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There may not be sharks at the OBX in Dare County. However, there is an EMS Chief and her name is Jennie Collins and she joins the crew in this episode to talk about everything... except sharks.
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Bad boys, bad boys. Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? In this episode we hear from Dr. Mike Lowry about surfing? Well, not exactly, but do we get his insight from the Medical Director perspective.
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