Hello one and all!
Welcome to my blog.
I suppose that formality states that I should introduce myself so that we can all get to know each other a little and hopefully develop this blog to its fullest potential.
I am a 30 something paramedic. I have been working for the North East Ambulance Service for the past 8 years and have been working as a State Registered Paramedic for the last 5 years.
I have a beautiful wife and 3 wonderful children who like to keep me firmly rooted in reality whenever I walk through the door!
I am one of these strange individuals that every work place has. You know the one I mean… the one who loves his job, the one who stays positive about everything even when things seem to been all going a bit pear shaped.
I still enjoy coming into work every shift and wherever I go I try and tell anyone who wants to listen, how wonderful my job is. I am also a realist and know that sometimes things dont go to plan, things may get in the way of me being happy ALL of the time. But I tend not to dwell on those things.
I hope to share with you, the blog reader, the ups and downs of being a paramedic in the UK. The good times and the bad, and hopefully, after a while you too will understand why this work becomes more that just a job.
Medic999 
well, there you are. you left a comment on my blog but when I tried to link back to you from your title, all I got was an advertisement page with links to assorted “stuff’. Nice to find you, I will add your blog to my web roll.
MMT
By: makeminetrauma on January 8, 2009
at 4:48 am
Nice blog, mind if I add you to my “blogroll”? 🙂
By: James on March 18, 2009
at 11:24 pm
That would be great, thank you very much!!
By: medicblog999 on March 18, 2009
at 11:30 pm
A pleasure sir 🙂 http://doesthishurt.com/links/
By: James on March 18, 2009
at 11:33 pm
It’s nice to know I am not the only one out there that truly loves their job. I take a lot of flack for it at work. When the company said no raises this year, most groaned. I told them be glad they weren’t being laid off.
Life is an adventure to be lived to the fullest.
By: Easily Lost on June 14, 2009
at 12:04 am
Great story about the Angel of the North, good pics and well written, I enjoyed it.
By: Abel on June 30, 2009
at 3:14 pm
I can identify myself in those lines…so I shamelessly copied them (http://tinyurl.com/lxksq6
). Why re-write what you have already stated so accurately?
Keep up the Positives!
By: Flo on July 25, 2009
at 4:34 am
[…] this boot is one of the best I have seen, and worn, so far,” the blogger at Medic999 writes about the Magnum Elite Force boots. “It is lightweight, looks cool, is cool – i.e. […]
By: Magnum Boots Put to the Test | Military Boots Blog on November 4, 2009
at 3:18 pm
No such thing as STATE registered. That went away with CPSM. You are either registered or you are not.Bob FellowsParamedic TutorCollege of Paramedics
By: bobfellows on November 10, 2009
at 4:07 pm
Greetings,My name is Barbara O’ Brien and my blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere on the progressive political and health blogophere has earned me the notoriety of being a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.I’m contacting you because I found your site in a prominent politics and health reform blog search and want to tell you about my newest blogging platform —the public concern of politics, and health care and its reform. Our shared concerns include health reform, tort reform, public health, safe workplaces, and asbestos contamination.To increase awareness on these important issues, my goal is to get a resource link on your site or even allow me to provide a guest posting. Please contact me back, I hope to hear from you soon. Drop by our site in the meantime—www.maacenter.org/blog.Thanks,Barbara O’ Brienbarbaraobrien@maacenter.org
By: Barbara O' Brien on December 2, 2009
at 8:38 am
Greetings,My name is Barbara O’ Brien and my blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere on the progressive political and health blogophere has earned me the notoriety of being a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.I’m contacting you because I found your site in a prominent politics and health reform blog search and want to tell you about my newest blogging platform —the public concern of politics, and health care and its reform. Our shared concerns include health reform, tort reform, public health, safe workplaces, and asbestos contamination.To increase awareness on these important issues, my goal is to get a resource link on your site or even allow me to provide a guest posting. Please contact me back, I hope to hear from you soon. Drop by our site in the meantime—www.maacenter.org/blog.Thanks,Barbara O’ Brienbarbaraobrien@maacenter.org
By: Barbara O' Brien on December 2, 2009
at 10:38 am
Greetings,My name is Barbara O’ Brien and my blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere on the progressive political and health blogophere has earned me the notoriety of being a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.I’m contacting you because I found your site in a prominent politics and health reform blog search and want to tell you about my newest blogging platform —the public concern of politics, and health care and its reform. Our shared concerns include health reform, tort reform, public health, safe workplaces, and asbestos contamination.To increase awareness on these important issues, my goal is to get a resource link on your site or even allow me to provide a guest posting. Please contact me back, I hope to hear from you soon. Drop by our site in the meantime—www.maacenter.org/blog.Thanks,Barbara O’ Brienbarbaraobrien@maacenter.org
By: Barbara O' Brien on December 2, 2009
at 11:38 am
[…] readers/fellow bloggers know anyone who could get in touch with a DFB member I could meet up with. Medic 999, I’m looking at you! I know you’re in the UK, but just like us DCFD guys know some […]
By: The Dublin Fire Brigade. | Raising Ladders on February 2, 2010
at 1:02 pm
[…] some professions social media is being used quite radically. Mark Glencorse of the North East Ambulance Service and Justin Schorr of the San Francisco Fire Department have […]
By: Social Media « Ramblings of a Scottish Student on March 15, 2010
at 7:48 pm
Wonder if you could help me out. I read a blog post 2-3 days ago from a medic in London. He was describing budget cuts, dispatch triage problems and other headaches that plague medics in the States as well. Sorry to say, I didn't bookmark the site and have forgotten the blog's name. Does this ring a bell? If so, please let me know.Thanks
By: dukepowell on April 5, 2010
at 8:58 pm
Go go bob!
By: Me on May 29, 2010
at 5:36 pm
Go go bob!
By: Me on May 29, 2010
at 9:36 pm
Excellent little site. I look forward to reading more. Cheers from the US and Iraq!
By: Sean on June 11, 2010
at 4:31 am
Thanks Sean.
Be sure to follow along at the new site, http://www.999medic.com
And if you are currently in Iraq, thank you and stay safe!
By: medicblog999 on June 11, 2010
at 8:32 pm
[…] our EMS online neighborhood, one happening that deserves its own paragraph is the sad departure of UK medic Mark Glencorse from the blogging world. Mark made a huge impact on EMS blogging with the Medic999 blog and his […]
By: The EMT Spot » The June EMS Roundup on July 1, 2010
at 5:35 pm
[…] “retirement” of the blog called “Medic999” by EMS Social Media superstar Mark Glencourse who works in the United Kingdom. I only learned of Mark and his blog (which was recognized as the […]
By: Salute to Medic999 – Ladiez-Stuff.blogspot.com | Desi Dramas and Movies on July 11, 2010
at 3:30 pm
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By: Unease About Blogging And Social Media In Medicine - Better Health on July 15, 2010
at 10:00 am
[…] also well worth your attention. We’ll start with the much heralded return of blogging great Mark Glencorse and his Medic999 blog. Welcome back Mark. The often overlooked but always fantastic EMS Haiku blog […]
By: The EMT Spot » The August EMS Roundup on August 31, 2010
at 3:01 pm
As a paramedic instructors, I inqury about police paramedic employment rate in your country.
We don`t have any chance to be a police parameic here in KOREA.
So would you give me an information about that in you country?
By: Inason on March 21, 2011
at 7:47 am