It’s about one week to the hour since my son Noah and I chainsawed our way through massive poison ivy vines and trees out of the Lost Corners neighborhood of Morganton NC. At that time rain was pouring sideways and leaves were flying upwards. This leaf is about 8 meters above the deck, out our second story window, still suspended by two gossamer spider threads. I think it’s a powerful metaphor for the ongoing tenuousness of our situation and communities still in suspended and compromised circumstances, held together by gossamer threads of community and faith. But it’s also worth pointing out that spiderwebs, which appear fine and fragile, are stronger than steel when compared by weight. Overall, this still-suspended leaf one week out is an awe-inspiring testament, one week out, to the power of nature over us still… as readers of _Wilderness EMS 1e_ know, the anthropologically-driven definition of wilderness medicine and wilderness EMS. #thisisanthropology #thisispublichealth #HurricaneHelene #resilience #leavesinthewind #WEMSText @WEMSText

Registration is now open for the Carolina Wilderness EMS Seminar. This one-day, classroom-based training opportunity on Sep 13 provides exceptional continuing medical education in the areas of wilderness and environmental emergency medicine/EMS. The stellar faculty includes the international medical director of Divers Alert Network (DAN), the national medical director of the U.S. Forest Service, the editor of the textbook "Wilderness EMS", the medical director of Venom One, the editor-at-large of the magazine "Wilderness Medicine", and numerous subject matter experts in a wide variety of field medicine subspecialties. The day offers credits towards the Wilderness Medical Society's Fellowship in Wilderness Medicine (FAWM)* as well as full AMA Category 1 CME and EMS CME. Registration also includes a print copy of the now-out-of-print textbook "Wilderness EMS" (1e). In-person attendance is recommended in Morganton, NC but remote Zoom access is also available. Register today to ensure a spot! hawkventures.com/seminar #WEMS #wildernessEMS #wildernessmedicine #EMS #emergencymedicine #essequamvideri #medtwitter @WildMedSociety *Actual credits awarded depend on personal credit needs and history

CWEMSE Day 6 Daily Travel (Total Travel): 95km (2,682 km*) Knot of the Day: water knot Day 6 is a recovery day between the 5 days of #BRATT we just completed yesterday and the 5 days of the #CoastalModule just about to begin tomorrow. The Externs get to sleep in a bed, enjoy hot showers, do laundry, and generally reset. Recovery days are also times to knock out some of the reading for the rotation. Our book list includes Hawkins's Wilderness EMS @WEMSText, Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine, Smith's Beneficial Risk, Dworkis's The Emergency Mind @TheEmergMind, and Van Tilburg's Mtn Rescue Doctor. *total rotation travel distance to date, including by foot, climbing, rappelling, ascending, car, truck #CWEMSE2023 #cwemse #expeditionary #expeditionmedicine #wildernessmedicine #wildernessEMS #essequamvideri #crewnotpassengers #medicalschool #emergencymedicine #hawkventures #yesthisismedschool #WakeForestWildMed #wildmed #WEMS #UNCBlueRidge #WPCC #NCStateParks #feedyourbrain #recovery #MD73 #MD74 @DavidMBaskin1 @WPCC_Pioneers @WakeWildMed @NCparks

Darryl Macias is a #wildmed national treasure. In a command performance, Darryl translates the summary of this entire @WildMedSociety podcast from English into fluent French and Spanish, both languages in which he is fluent—#lifegoals. And in Spanish and in French, one of the only words Dr. Macias finds untranslatable from the English is "wilderness medicine". I learned the lesson exploring international editions of @WEMSText & the new IBSC #WildernessParamedic credential: "wilderness" in some ways is a very American term that doesn't translate linguistically or culturally into many other countries. If you speak multiple languages, can "wilderness medicine" be translated into your language? What are the linguistic or cultural anthropological constraints on that translation? What do you think about the WMS podcast summarizing its content in other languages at the end, or is English such the lingua franca of the medical world that it can or should suffice? soundcloud.com/wildernessmed…

It is always so cool to see the wildly diverse places that the #WEMSText is used! @wkhealth @Wolters_Kluwer #WEMS #wildmed #tasmania

Cool to open a random article & see my #anthropological definition of #wildernessmedicine from @WEMSText in action. Great article @AmandaWinsteadd! dailynurse.com/why-nurses-sh… @dailynurse @Wolters_Kluwer @WildMedSociety #wildmednursing #wildmednurse #anthrotwitter #wildmed #nursing

Hey, they are still awesome transport tools for short distances! It’s just they are an extrication tool for short movement, not a medical tool for immobilization. Rock on, @LEGO_Group rescue heroes! @WildMedSociety @lippincott

“Archaeologists who can assess tourniquets are fewer in number”—not for long! Thx @aap_saaorg for helping provide a platform for evidence-based medicine for field scientists. #archaeology #Anthropology #fieldwork #wildmed #wildernessmedicine

Sad to see NC was not treated in the field using modern prehospital spinal cord protection principles, as described by @WildMedSociety consensus guidelines and #WEMS publications like @WEMSText. Surfing injuries are well within these evidence-based recommendations.