Ted FlanaganCognoscenti contributorTed Flanagan is a writer and paramedic from central Massachusetts.Recently publishedWhat It's Like To Be A Paramedic During A PandemicMany people who work in emergency medicine say this is the most challenging moment in their professional lives. Today, in our ongoing series of dispatches from the front lines, we...ResumeCognoscenti03:26May 7, 2020As Paramedics, We Know What's Coming. We Just Don't Know WhenCoronavirus is infiltrating central Massachusetts in fits and starts. But the math is clear. The line will not hold, writes Ted Flanagan.CognoscentiApr 1, 2020They came in 104th out of 104 teams. And they won bigIn the hills outside of Cooperstown, New York, 11 boys reminded Ted Flanagan that there is still joy to be had in picking up the lance and jousting at windmills....ResumeCognoscenti05:38Oct 16, 2015'Go Set A Watchman' And The Reader's DilemmaWill reading "Go Set A Watchman" forever change the way we read "To Kill A Mockingbird"? Should we read it, anyway?CognoscentiJul 22, 2015In A Darkened House, A Disaster Without A CureWe have plans for pandemic flu, tornadoes and Ebola. But for the increasing numbers of dementia patients who find their way into my ambulance each month … Nothing.CognoscentiMar 5, 2015AdvertisementThe Power To Reverse An Overdose, The Powerlessness To Prevent The Next OneHeroin addicts most sadden me because I see in so many of them the lives they might have had, and because I understand less than ever why they would trade...ResumeCognoscenti03:08Oct 24, 2014
What It's Like To Be A Paramedic During A PandemicMany people who work in emergency medicine say this is the most challenging moment in their professional lives. Today, in our ongoing series of dispatches from the front lines, we...ResumeCognoscenti03:26May 7, 2020
As Paramedics, We Know What's Coming. We Just Don't Know WhenCoronavirus is infiltrating central Massachusetts in fits and starts. But the math is clear. The line will not hold, writes Ted Flanagan.CognoscentiApr 1, 2020
They came in 104th out of 104 teams. And they won bigIn the hills outside of Cooperstown, New York, 11 boys reminded Ted Flanagan that there is still joy to be had in picking up the lance and jousting at windmills....ResumeCognoscenti05:38Oct 16, 2015
'Go Set A Watchman' And The Reader's DilemmaWill reading "Go Set A Watchman" forever change the way we read "To Kill A Mockingbird"? Should we read it, anyway?CognoscentiJul 22, 2015
In A Darkened House, A Disaster Without A CureWe have plans for pandemic flu, tornadoes and Ebola. But for the increasing numbers of dementia patients who find their way into my ambulance each month … Nothing.CognoscentiMar 5, 2015
The Power To Reverse An Overdose, The Powerlessness To Prevent The Next OneHeroin addicts most sadden me because I see in so many of them the lives they might have had, and because I understand less than ever why they would trade...ResumeCognoscenti03:08Oct 24, 2014