Hi, Hi folks, I’m Ben.

I’m a 44-year-old Prehospital Emergency Medicine Consultant, based in Vienna (Austria), working primarily in prehospital and HEMS settings. My professional home is close to the frontline—where teams have to make decisions under pressure, uncertainty, and limited time. What has guided me throughout my career is not a specific tool or title, but a simple and persistent question: how do teams manage to make good decisions when conditions are far from ideal?

Emergency POCUS has become an important part of my daily practice. Not as a niche interest, but as a practical way to support clinical reasoning, to make assumptions more transparent, and to help teams align their thinking in critical situations. I’m convinced that – when used thoughtfully – POCUS can improve communication and decision-making, especially when it is embedded in structured, evidence-based, and team-oriented training.

Since 2020, I have been working as a senior physician with Vienna EMS (Berufsrettung Wien), where I currently serve as Deputy Director of Medical Science. In this role, I contribute to projects aimed at advancing prehospital care, with a focus on pPOCUS, crew resource management, and system development. Alongside this work, I continue to practice actively as a prehospital and HEMS physician across Austria.

I also serve as Editor-in-Chief of the RESPonse Emergency Medicine Podcast, working with a dedicated team to explore clinical practice, system design, and the human factors that influence emergency care.

This blog is a personal space to reflect and think out loud. Here, I share experiences from prehospital medicine, thoughts on teamwork and learning culture, and observations about how emergency medicine might continue to evolve. Everything you read reflects my own perspective and responsibility.

Outside of medicine, I value time with my family and the people close to me. I enjoy traveling, being outdoors, and activities that help maintain perspective, curiosity, and humility—qualities I find just as important in medicine as in life.

If you’ve found your way here as a colleague, collaborator, or out of simple curiosity: welcome. I’m always grateful for thoughtful exchange, honest questions, and opportunities to learn together.

Embrace the process.

— Ben