One thing I like about reading blogs is that the good ones give you an insight — a brief glimpse — into someone else’s life. The best ones (in my opinion) give you a candid look at just what that person’s job or career is really like.

I find this to be particularly true of blogs centered around the medical profession.

As a journalist, it’s all well and good to write about research studies and medical procedures … to gather facts and information … and then attempt to present it in some useful fashion. But let’s face it, the real action takes place in the trenches and that’s the sort of thing we laymen rarely get a chance to experience for ourselves (unless something has gone terribly wrong).

The Forgotten Blue Line is the work of a fairly new blogger on the MedBlog scene and one that opens up a rarely noticed aspect of the healthcare field. (Hence the name.) It is about the day to day trials and tribulations of a healthcare security officer.

Yeah, you read that right. A security officer.

I just found this blog today while catching up on the latest installment over at Nurse Ratched’s Place. And, while there are a number of posts worthy of mention, I decided to only give you an excerpt from his most recent post just to get you started…

My partner and I were standing outside assisting with a medical evac… So as we finish and the bird flies off my partner and I step into the emergency room. As we enter we hear the emergency director yelling for someone to call security. We run down to the room and before I opened the curtain a smell hit me like a punch to the nose and I knew then this was going to be bad…

I’ll leave you to read the rest of, If you’re Crazy and you know it II… and be sure to check out his other posts as well.

Very good stuff. I hope that Flashlight 1 will continue to give us more of the same.

Dean

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