You are listening to EMS 2020, a podcast hosted by Spencer Oliver and myself, Chris Finkston.

We are paramedics with quite a bit of experience,

ranging from flight paramedicine to ground transportation to even some volunteer work as well.

EMS 2020 reviews scenarios based on actual out-of-hospital medical scenes. Portions of the scenarios

are altered to protect the privacy of those involved and to present educational opportunities

to the listener.

All right, everyone, welcome to EMS 2020. So this is going to be our follow-up episode to

last week's episode. In the last week's episode, we did talk about a call that went a little bit

sideways, and that was because of some dispatch information and a curmudgeon of a patient

who had a vague complaint, was a very poor medical historian, and kind of led the lead medic

on this, kind of down the wrong path. But in this week's deep dive episode, we're actually going to talk about one of the things

that that paramedic did amazingly right.

And that was interpersonal communication.

But first off, we're too far.

Spence.

How are you today?

You know, I'm, uh, I'm good.

A little tired.

Works going crazy. But, uh, I'm happy to be here.

Perfect. Um, yeah. And this is actually, like this episode might run a little bit long, uh,

but this is a really like, we're both, this is the episode to listen to, I think, of all of our

episodes. Uh, and I know Spencer is very passionate about doing this.

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