// Gear
Reviews from the rig. For the people who carry it.
Honest reviews of the gear EMS workers and nurses actually use. Real shifts, real shears, real cold-handed three-AM rig calls. No vendor pitches, no roundups for the sake of roundups, no ranking sponsored gear above the stuff that actually holds up.
Editor’s note
The gear desk opens with Issue 001 on Tuesday May 26, 2026. First reviews land alongside the newsletter, free to read on the site forever.
What's coming, in rough order: trauma shears that hold up to denim and a twelve-hour shift, the under-$80 stethoscope argument, EDC bags that don't look like tactical cosplay, and the right-angle light that's actually worth the price. One review per piece, working medic on shift with each one for weeks.
// How this works
We only review gear we’d carry on shift.
No vendor pitches us a product and gets a review out of it. We start with the question, what should a working clinician actually buy this year, and we work backward from there. Some links are affiliate links — when you buy through one, the vendor pays us a small commission. The price you pay is the same. Everything else lives in the policy below.