EMS NEWS

I’m officially addicted to the History Channel show Gangland. I just watched an hour on the Vice Lords, and last week was an episode on the Mongols Motorcycle Club. Right now they are showing an episode about the Bloods in L.A. I’m amused primarily because I don’t have to deal with gang violence in my neck of the woods.

I have had one shooting in my EMS career and that was while precepting with a much bigger department. I can’t imagine working a city like Lawndale, IL, and having to deal with trauma on a consistent basis, or having to take out travel insurance to go to work in south central L.A.

Although I wouldn’t mind a LITTLE bit of excitement instead of picking old ladies up off the ground all day long.