EMS stories from people who lived them.
Medic2Medic Podcast follows Steve Cohen in long-form conversations with people shaped by emergency medical services. Episodes move from street-level memories to training, technology, leadership, public education, and the emotional weight of patient care.
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Medic2Medic Podcast is an EMS interview show with a strong memory for the profession’s people, places, and turning points. Steve Cohen hosts with a direct, familiar style, often beginning from a personal connection before letting the guest carry the conversation. The episodes are not hurried. They make space for the kind of stories that take a few turns before the point lands. Recent conversations show the range. Kevin Hazzard talks about noticing the small details at a scene and using them to write honestly about the work. Dr. Ashlyn Sanders discusses seizure care, oral injury concerns, airway safety, patient comfort, and the persistent public myth that someone having a seizure may swallow their tongue. Jonathon Feit brings technology into the room without treating it as a gadget story. His discussion of EMS change, data, conferences, and community paramedicine stays tied to whether tools actually help crews and patients. Chief Amera Gilchrist appears through Cohen’s continuing interest in Pittsburgh EMS and the leadership history of the bureau. Hilary Gates is framed through education, writing, advocacy, Six Minutes to Live, the EMS Memorial Bike Ride, and Prodigy EMS. LE McCollough’s episode turns toward Freedom House and the way ordinary people helped define modern EMS. Dr. Jeff Jarvis talks about compassion, grace, recruit classes, and the shift from craving dramatic calls to understanding the value of ordinary transport work. Greg Howard’s New Year’s conversation connects a career in EMS and public safety technology with surviving sudden cardiac arrest. Across these episodes, the show keeps returning to practical wisdom. Medicine matters, but so do surroundings, communication, culture, history, and the emotional cost of the job. The production has a modest, conversational feel. That looseness is part of the appeal. Medic2Medic Podcast is strongest when a guest’s personal route through EMS becomes a broader lesson about care, leadership, or survival in the field.
Made for: Built for EMS providers, EMS leaders, EMS medical directors, and listeners interested in emergency medical services. It especially suits people who prefer reflective field stories over polished lecture formats.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its insider patience: Steve Cohen asks grounded setup questions, then lets guests connect biography, field practice, EMS history, and system change in their own words. It feels less like a panel and more like a profession remembering, arguing, and teaching itself.
Medic2Medic is back. After 300 episodes and a three-year pause, the podcast returns to shine a spotlight on the voices and stories that define Emergency Medical Services. Each episode takes you behind the sirens and into the lives of EMS professionals—paramedics, EMTs, educators, leaders, and innovators—who dedicate their careers to saving lives and shaping the future of prehospital care. Whether you’re in the field, connected to EMS, or simply curious about the people who answer the call, Medic2Medic brings you honest conversations, lessons learned, and the human side of emergency medicine. Because in EMS, the stories never retire. Subscribe to Medic2Medic wherever you get your podcasts and…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A grounded look at how scene details sharpen EMS judgment and patient care.
This episode looks at the small observations that can change an EMS call: how a patient is found, what the room suggests, and which clues should slow a medic's first assumption.
A grounded discussion of seizure myths, oral injury, and the patient experience behind a proposed intervention.
Seizure response is often driven by an understandable urge to intervene: protect the tongue, put something in the mouth, do anything but stand by. Dr.
A grounded EMS conversation about technology, resistance to change, and the systems that decide whether innovation spreads.
Medic2Medic's conversation with Jonathan Feit frames EMS innovation as a human problem as much as a technical one. As co-founder of Beyond Lucid Technologies, Feit connects new tools to the daily realities of EMS work, arguing that resistance to change often comes from survival,…
A Freedom House story connects EMS history with courage, adaptation, and the work of sustaining a service.
Medic to Medic's conversation with Dr. Ellie McKellar frames Freedom House as a story of ordinary people choosing to back a risky public-service idea.
A veteran EMS leader connects grace, mentorship, and recruit optimism to the everyday work of patient care.
Jeff Jarvis frames EMS leadership as the discipline of keeping attention on the people directly in front of the crew: the patient who needs care, the colleague absorbing a hard correction, and the recruits who will carry the work forward.
A paramedic's cardiac arrest becomes a case for more human, organization-specific EMS training.
Medic2Medic revisits Eric Chase, a paramedic whose own cardiac arrest, and the image of his wife sitting alone during the resuscitation, becomes the emotional center of a wider discussion about how EMS organizations train and support their people.
Peter Antevy traces an underdog career into practical pediatric EMS work.
Peter Antevy presents his career as an underdog story: medical school turned him down, but he went on to become a pediatric ER physician and an EMS medical director in 2010. He says he now works with more than 2,500 medics across more than four counties.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
Paramedic Eric Chase joins host Steve Cohen on the rebooted Medic2Medic Podcast.
Steve Cohen introduces Voices of EMS, a spin-off series as Medic2Medic ends its 300-episode run.
A medic misses the needle at first.
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Steve Cohen welcomes Jonathon Feit back to the Medic-to-Medic Podcast to discuss his work with Beyond Lucid Technologies and the podcast's 11-year run.
Host Steve Cohen introduces Chief Amira Gilchrist of Pittsburgh EMS, continuing a tradition of interviewing leaders from his former EMS agency.
Host Steve Cohen introduces guest Hilary Gates, a paramedic and educator passionate about advancing EMS through advocacy and education.
Peter Saffar says, "time is the enemy of the brain," and Freedom House treated patients before hospital arrival.
Medic2Medic Podcast Episode 319 with Dr.
Host Steve Cohen interviews Greg Howard, a career EMS professional and cardiac arrest survivor, about his experience and its impact on his perspective on wellness and EMS.
Host Steve Cohen introduces guest Eric Chase, a paramedic who blends improv into EMS education and leadership to create safer, more collaborative healthcare environments.
A tribute to Dr.
Host Steve Cohen reconnects with retired Wake County EMS assistant chief Jeff Hammerstein to discuss his career and transition to emergency preparedness.
Host Steve Cohen interviews Nancy De Losa about cycling through Italy, sharing travel tips and cultural insights.