Medic Mastery by Brendan Sonnichsen

Optimized Medic Oct 14, 2021

Stop Telling Paramedics to “Lift With Your Knees”

You’ve heard it 1000 times. “Lift with your knees!” But what does that even mean? Is it always feasible to lift with…

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Optimized Medic Jun 18, 2021

20 Tiny Habits for Paramedics

Becoming a good paramedic is built on some combination of good education, good instincts, and good habits. Becoming an…

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Optimized Medic May 2, 2021

Minimum Effective Dose Fitness

Earlier this year I came across a fun little app called Pai Health. It is a fitness tracker that is based on some…

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Optimized Medic Jan 23, 2021

Exercise Resistance, it’s more than a feeling

Are you a paramedic or EMT who saves their workouts for their days off or after shift? You could be significantly…

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Optimized Medic Dec 30, 2020

Vitamin D, Cancer and COVID-19

If you’re living in the northern hemisphere, and you’re not supplementing with Vitamin D, then now might be a really…

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Optimized Medic Nov 24, 2020

A Free Yoga Offer for Your AM Bookend

Here in Manitoba where COVID cases continue to rise, restrictions continue to get tighter, and days get colder,…

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Optimized Medic Nov 24, 2020

Ashwagandha for Insomnia

Last time I wrote how a simple change to the practice of shift scheduling could DOUBLE the nights the average…

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Optimized Medic Oct 11, 2020

This Common EMS Scheduling Practice is Needlessly Burning the Candle at Both Ends

I’d like to share some observations and a hypothesis regarding the common practice of scheduling shift change at 7AM. To…

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