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Things For EMTs To Do In Baltimore In The Springtime

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Visit a restaurant in the Inner Harbor and have some crab cakes and Guinness. Dare your buddies to pinch your waitress on the ass, and then practice your wound management techniques on them.

Attend EMS Today and hear lots of entertaining and informative lectures on EMS topics.

Harangue the folks who organized the conference because they didn’t pick me this year.

Get really drunk with TOTWTYTR and pass out in the same gutter Edgar Allen Poe died in! Now how cool would that be?

Visit Shock Trauma Center. No, not that way. I mean as a tourist, silly. Listen to the tour guide’s version of the history of the place and it’s founder, R. Adams Cowley, widely acknowledged as the father of trauma care in the U.S….

…and then go visit the National EMS Museum booth at EMS Today, and hear what it was really like in the early days of EMS and trauma care, back when Maryland Shock Trauma was known by other surgeons as “Cowley’s Death Ward.” Get the grizzled old coot there to tell you the real story of the Golden Hour.

And while you’re there, buy on of these tee shirts. It would be the perfect ensemble to wear while you’re searching for a clean gutter in which to do your Poe imitation. Plus, TOTWTYTR could buy another Sam Adams with the proceeds.

Visit the Emergency Training Associates booth and get your signed copy of En Route. And buy some for your friends! It’s the perfect EMS stocking stuffer! And while you’re there, you can share with me any reconnaissance you may have gathered on the best places to find Guinness, crab cakes and hot waitresses.

Attend Bryan Bledsoe’s lecture entitled “Can Oxygen Really Be Bad?” and prepare to have your assumptions challenged. I’ll be the guy in the front row squealing like a fanboy.

Oh, did I mention the books and tee shirts? And the Guinness?

Posted by Ambulance Driver on February 21, 2009 • Filed under: Uncategorized
  • Joeymom
    No fair being as close as Baltimore and not telling me. :(
  • Rogue Medic
    , yet. They are working on it, but they do not want to rush things. They gave Dr. Bledsoe one whole topic. Anything less and they would have to explain why they are the only conference avoiding him.
  • RugbyGirlMD
    While you're in the area, you might want to check out the National Civil War Medical Museum. It's located in Frederick, MD, about an hour's drive away.
  • Maeve
    If a customer ever pinched my ass you would be practicing how to keep the limb safe for reattachment.< />Otherwise those crab cakes & guiness sure do sound good!
  • EE
    Everything fun always happens up north. (And when something fun actually happens down South I'm frickin' 7 months pregnant and the event is outside. And forever from where I live.) < />< />Drink some beer for me. And enjoy Bledsoe's lecture. I'd really enjoy that.
  • TheAxe
    +1 Brewer's Art, try the Resurrection Ale
  • ulsh72
    AD! Just looked at the author description for your new book on amazon. You included a singles add and a super hero advertisement, LOL!!!! < />< />"Kelly is single and currently lives in Kinder, Louisiana." ... < />< />"When he is not teaching, Kelly prowls the streets in search of little old ladies who have fallen and can't get up."
  • Michael N.
    I'm a Baltimore-area reader as well, and since I live downtown, can make recommendations for great places to get tasty eats, wonderful drinks, and all that other great stuff.< />< />While Lucy's is a very nice place to go, I would also recommend Tir Na Nog in Harborplace if you're just looking for a place to drink beer. For actual Irish food, try Mick O'Shea's on Charles Street (about four blocks from the Convention Center -- I recommend the bangers and mash), and for the whole pub experience, go for James Joyce over on President Street -- it's about a 15-minute walk, but well worth the trouble.< />< />Unless you're totally sold on "must drink Guinness", I highly recommend a couple of local brewpubs. The first is The Brewer's Art, which is about 12 blocks from the Inner Harbor up Charles Street. They have awesome food to go along with a selection of tasty beers. If you're over in Fells Point, go to DuClaw Brewing; the food is more slanted to variations on burgers, but still really good, and they have a broad selection of great beer as well.< />< />For crabcakes, I'm pretty fond of Faidley's in Lexington Market (two stops up on the light rail, or about six blocks walking). For full-fledged crabs, I'd take a cab over to Bo Brooks on Boston Street.< />< />The neighborhood that Poe actually lived in isn't someplace I'd recommend random tourists walk around. Drive by if you must, and it isn't very far from the University of MD complex, but it's still pretty sketchy. The area around the stadiums can also be a little sketchy in places, so I wouldn't wander too far on foot without a native guide.
  • Erin
    And one question...to get one of those signed books...you'll be in the Exhibit Hall? As a non-EMT-type, is it even possible for me to get in on a hall only pass? I'd have dropped you an email, but I didn't see where to do it.
  • Erin
    Hey. I'm a regular reader/lurker from Baltimore. The Irish pub is called Lucy's www.lucysirishrestaurant.com I've never been there, but I've heard they're good.
  • Sabra
    < />< />I shan't care. I shall be passed out drunkenly in the ditch (I'll have plenty o' time to drink, what with having zero use for the EMT conference & all) and all the hoodrats will mistake me for dead and at worst pick my pockets.
  • Elizabeth
    Heck, I am just looking forward to seeing the new Super-skinny AD!.. Hope to see you around the museum booth if I can get "ex-publisher" to get me a badge again. And I think there is an Irish pub somewhere in the Inner Harbor complex for that Guinness.
  • TOTWTYTR
    I didn't think that part of East Lombard was all that bad, being so close to the Inner Harbor. On the other hand, just a few blocks away from Raven's Stadium seemed pretty bad a couple of years ago.
  • TheAxe
    Poe's neighborhood will get your pulse racing far more than the Harbor, I wouldn't want to head over there unarmed. Once when I was younger and dumber I drove a date home through there at 1am.
  • TOTWTYTR
    If only that napkin had been preserved, it could go into the museum.
  • Sabra
    I am enough of a nerd that getting drunk & passing out where Poe died actually sounds like fun to me (though I've never been--and don't intend to be--that drunk, so maybe I'd have to settle for falling comically).
  • Larry
    Take a tour of the USS Constellation, the last sail-powered wooden ship built for the US Navy...
  • susan r
    Hey, that was really cool, thanks. As a brand new EMT I'm gung-ho enough to do all that! I'll keep it in mind for my next trip out east.
  • Epijunky
    So... uhm...< />< />Where does one get a Guinness in Baltimore?< />< />Count me in.
  • Ambulance Driver
    That it was a PR tool sketched out on a cocktail napkin, and has zero basis in science.< />< />But it sounds much catchier than the "Golden 47 Minutes and 28 Seconds," doesn't it?
  • Anonymous
    So what is the REAL STORY about the golden hour?
  • 40lizard
    I just don't want to hear about it! You guys are going to be having a blast while I am slogging my guts out on a truck doing clinicals! SO HAVE FUN FOR ME TOO! while you're at!
  • Jay G
    Just walk around the inner harbor for a bit. Should be all the pulse-quickening you'll need...
  • Mule Breath,
    Did someone mention Guinness?
  • TOTWTYTR
    Anonymous it's just more "old think" from the people who run EMS Last Week. Uh, I mean the forward thinking people who run EMS Today. Anyway, they aren't quite ready for a cutting edge guy like AD. < />< />And I don't know why he picked me as the guy to get drunk with. Harumph.
  • Anonymous
    Wondered whether you were going to make it this year AD because didn't see your name on the speakers list.. guess not for lacking of trying. Their mistake!
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