Take Me Out of the Ball Game
With the baseball and softball seasons well underway, you are likely to encounter children with…
Blast Injuries: Emergency Management Essentials
The April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings brought the sobering reality of domestic terrorism back to…
Contrast Is Unnecessary for Most Abdominal CTs
The routine use of contrast (both oral and IV, and certainly rectal) is unnecessary for…
Better Methods, Better Numbers
Merely utter the term “patient satisfaction” among most emergency physicians and you’ll quickly see us…
Ethics: The Free Ride
In room six sat a typical 78-year-old nursing home patient with the history of a…
End Game: Playing Catch-Up on Savings
Q: I’m 55 years old and I’ve been practicing emergency medicine for 20 years, but…
On the Go: The Smartphone Physical
On March 5 on a United Airlines flight 30,000 feet in the air, somewhere between…
Leaving it at the Office: How to Unplug Successfully
Dear Director, I’m trying to take a real vacation this summer and get…
The Neglected Orifice
I occasionally enjoy intellectual jousting, especially with other airway enthusiasts, and its fun to prognosticate…
tPA and the Problems of ‘Indication Creep’
True believers in the oft-debated tPA are pushing to expand the treatment window yet again…