Big Mountain Medicine is a consultancy specializing in bringing up-to-date trauma, resuscitation, and environmental medicine to resource-limited settings.

A skill hill is not a city street.
A high mountain trail does not accommodate an ambulance. Environment and resources change capabilities by the hour.

Your protocols should reflect that. You need medical direction that help you deliver high quality care and understands when that care looks different from urban EMS.

Big Mountain Medicine provides the following services at request, and can adapt services provided to your needs:

• Protocol development and adaptation
• Customized training scenarios
• Online medical control
• Medical direction
• Expert witness

Patrick Fink, MD FAWM is an emergency medicine physician fellowship trained in wilderness medicine. Before entering medical school, Dr. Fink was an EMT and professional ski patroller at Park City Mountain Resort, a paid observer for the Utah Avalanche Center, and an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School.

Dr. Fink has practiced medicine in Utah, Wyoming, Kansas, New Mexico, and now calls Bend, Ore. home. He is a fellow of the Wilderness Medicine Society (FAWM) and has attained the Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM), a UIAA/ICAR/ISSM international certification in mountain medicine and technical rescue.

You can find me online in the links below or just send me a message to say hi.