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b'Chris Hicks is @HumanFact0rz \\nHe is into Human Factors.\\nHe is reading about Human Factors.\\nHe is writing about Human Factors.\\nHe is on stage, he is on EMCrit, he is on fire. But it\\u2019s a smouldering kind of fire, a nice fire, not a raging forest fire. \\n\\nA raging forest fire would be a better metaphor for what drove Chris into Human Factors; a bunch of over heated but talented egos coming together, with the all the poise of a conflagration, in a trauma bay.\\n\\nI met Chris first in Dublin, with a bunch of other erudite, humorous and well grounded Canadians. There does seem to be a rich vein of talent up there. What\\u2019s happening in Canada? Is it all as good as it looks from afar? Or does Justin Trudeau just look handsome and apologise a lot? Maybe its just the contrast to that orange person to the south that some people call Mr President?\\n\\nEither way I keep meeting charming gifted Canadians. So that bit is good. The orange guy is a worry.\\n\\nIn an effort to improve those trauma bay infernos Chris and his chum Andrew Petrosoniak have recently edited/curated a special EMClinics of North America. It is a trauma special and being Chris, you know the Human Factors stuff will be good. That\\u2019s just the start of it too. He has people from all over the place in there. Amal Mattu, George Kovaks, Katrin Hruska, Brian Burns, Paul Engels, Karim Brohi and Captain America. That\\u2019s a lot of FOAMed types and a few superheroes too.\\n\\nSome of the EMClinics chapters will available for free until the end of December 2017. You can get free PDF\\u2019s from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07338627 \\n\\nI reckon we should all download it. If the EMClinics of North America that was free for a while gets double or triple the downloads that it normally achieves then the publishers would surely sit up and take notice. \\n\\nThat might cause a little disruption. Chris is good at that disruptive stuff. It is worth remembering that all this #FOAMed stuff is not necessarily safe from harm. If we lost a few major protagonists for whatever reason then how would FOAMed change? It is all happening because a relatively small number of people put a relatively huge amount of effort in. I don\\u2019t think we can get complacent. We certainly have not achieved universally free medical education have we? #FOAMed is great but conventional medical education is not getting any cheaper.\\n\\nMeanwhile if you\\u2019re reading this on Lifeinthefastlane, Intensive Care Network or TheTopEnd.org you\\u2019ll hopefully appreciate that you couldn\\u2019t possibly get any thing any cheaper. F is for Free.\\n\\nHouse keeping; the CVC Checklist guy I couldn\\u2019t remember was Peter Pronovost from John Hopkins.\\n\\nMore housekeeping; the tunes are provided by Mood Ruff, a Hip Hop crew from Winnipeg. You can find them on iTunes but you won\\u2019t find that track, No Hooks. (12 inch vinyl from 1989.)\\n\\nYou can get more Hicks at EMCrit.org and @HumanFact0rz on twitter. \\n\\nYou can get more Jellybeans on iTunes and Stitcher Radio. (Links Below) You can find collections on www.lifeinthefastlane.com and www.IntensiveCareNetwork.com \\n\\nSpecial interest playlists (emergency, pre-hospital, intensive care etc) are put together on www.soundcloud.com/TheTopEnd and they all live happily together at www.TheTopEnd.org'