Michael Morse

Behind the Patient: Street Portraits

Captain Michael Morse (ret.), mmorsepfd@aol.com, is the bestselling author of Rescuing Providence, Rescue 1 Responding, City Life and Mr. Wilson Makes it Home. Michael has been active in EMS since 1991 and offers his views on a variety of EMS and firefighting topics, focusing mainly on the interaction between patient and provider as a well-respected columnist and speaker. Captain Morse is a Johnson/Macoll fellow in literature from the Rhode Island Foundation.

LATEST ARTICLES

Retirement Planning & Resources

Firefighter career: Never forget how it felt to be part of something bigger than yourself

In retirement I am able to look back at the career as a whole and past the ghosts of patients who I was unable to rescue

March 22, 2018 01:58 PM

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Fire-based EMS

How to handle the change firefighting forces on you

After accepting that personal change is inevitable, here is how you can begin to handle that change for you and your family

July 05, 2017 09:25 AM

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Fire-based EMS

Keeping control by letting it go

The calm, quiet professionalism of fire and EMS roars like thunder when chaos rules

June 28, 2017 12:09 PM

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4 ways firefighters can prep the EMS scene

Here are some ways firefighters can prepare the scene before EMS arrives

October 14, 2014 10:27 AM

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